Nick O'Hern

Nick O'Hern
— Golfer —
Personal information
Full name Nicholas Simon O'Hern
Born (1971-10-18) 18 October 1971
Perth, Western Australia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Nationality  Australia
Residence Perth, Western Australia
Career
Turned professional 1994
Current tour(s) PGA Tour of Australasia
Former tour(s) PGA Tour
European Tour
Web.com Tour
Professional wins 5
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour of Australasia 2
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament T19: 2006
U.S. Open T6: 2006
The Open Championship T15: 2005
PGA Championship T31: 2004
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour of Australasia
Order of Merit winner		 2006

Nicholas Simon O'Hern (born 18 October 1971) is an Australian professional golfer.

O'Hern has played on both of the world's premier professional golf tours, the European Tour, and the United States-based PGA Tour. His biggest successes though, have come at home on the PGA Tour of Australasia, where he won the Order of Merit as the leading money winner in 2006.

Personal life

O'Hern was born in Perth, Western Australia. His father was a three-handicap golfer who played baseball for Australia, and he followed him by playing baseball for Western Australia. He was also a talented tennis player, but he chose to concentrate on golf. In 2009, he was named the Number 1 Ticket Holder for the Fremantle Football Club.

Career

O'Hern took up golf at the age of nine and plays left-handed. He turned professional in 1994. He was successful at the European Tour qualifying school at his first attempt in 1998 and played regularly on the European Tour from 1999 through 2007. He has not won on the European Tour, but had two second-place finishes in 2003, two more in 2004 and one each in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

In 2005, O'Hern began to play quite regularly in the United States. He was not a member of the PGA Tour, but having reached the top twenty of the Official World Golf Rankings, he received a substantial number of invitations and sponsors exemptions for PGA Tour events. In 2006 he became a member of the PGA Tour on the basis of his membership of the International Team at the 2005 Presidents Cup, and has since played mostly on that tour.

Also in 2006, O'Hern won the Australian PGA Championship, after he holed out from the greenside bunker for birdie on the fourth hole of a two-man play-off with Peter Lonard. The win brought to an end a seven-year drought for O'Hern, and propelled him to the top of the PGA Tour of Australasia's Order of Merit for 2006.[1] He has won five tournaments in Australia, and continues to play on the PGA Tour of Australasia during the northern hemisphere winter.

O'Hern has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings, and he is the only player who has beaten Tiger Woods in matchplay more than once. He is coached by Neil Simpson, Peter Thomson and Lewis Freiberg of the Mount Lawley Golf Club in Perth, Western Australia.

Knee surgery ended O'Hern's 2010 season after 11 events. He started the 2011 season on a medical exemption. O'Hern satisfied his medical exemption in May 2011 with four events remaining to retain his PGA Tour status. On 6 June, O'Hern went through sectional qualifying and secured a spot in the 2011 U.S. Open.

O'Hern has never won on the PGA Tour; his best finish is a tie for second at the 2006 Booz Allen Classic.

Ball marking

O'Hern's ball marking has become famous because of its originality. In an ode to his native Australia, O'Hern marks his Titleist Pro V1 with a drawn-on kangaroo. The marking has been featured in Titleist advertisements.

Amateur wins

Professional wins (5)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)

Other wins (3)

Results in major championships

Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Masters Tournament DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T45 T19 CUT CUT DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T49 T6 T23 DNP DNP
The Open Championship 41 DNP DNP CUT DNP T15 CUT CUT T32 DNP
PGA Championship DNP CUT DNP DNP T31 CUT CUT T50 CUT DNP
Tournament 2010 2011
Masters Tournament DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP CUT
The Open Championship DNP DNP
PGA Championship DNP DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 2
U.S. Open 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 3
The Open Championship 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 3
PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2
Totals 0 0 0 0 1 4 19 10

Team appearances

References

  1. ↑ "O'Hern ends long wait for victory". BBC Sport. 10 December 2006. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
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