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Nick O'Hern
Personal information
Full name	Nicholas Simon O'Hern
Born	18 October 1971 (1971-10-18) (age 38) 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 European Tour PGA Tour of Australasia
Professional wins	5
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour of Australasia	2
Best results in Major Championships
The Masters	T19: 2006
U.S. Open	T6: 2006
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.

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 has begun 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 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 and end a 7 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 a total of 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.

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

• 1991 Mount Lawley Championship

Professional wins (5)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)

• 1999 Schweppes Coolum Classic
• 2006 Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship

Other wins (3)

• 1997 Port Hedland PGA Classic
• 1998 Port Hedland PGA Classic, South West Open

Results in major championships

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

Team appearances

• Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Australia): 2000
• World Cup (representing Australia): 2004, 2007
• Presidents Cup (International team): 2005, 2007

References

External links

• Profile on the PGA Tour of Australasia's official site
• Profile on the European Tour's official site
• Profile on the PGA Tour's official site
• Results in ranking events for the last two years from the Official World Golf Ranking site

v â€¢ d â€¢ e International Presidents Cup team – 2005 Stuart Appleby â€¢ Ã�ngel Cabrera â€¢ Michael Campbell â€¢ Tim Clark â€¢ Retief Goosen â€¢ Mark Hensby â€¢ Trevor Immelman â€¢ Peter Lonard â€¢ Nick O'Hern â€¢ Adam Scott â€¢ Vijay Singh â€¢ Mike Weir â€¢ Gary Player (non-playing captain)

v â€¢ d â€¢ e International Presidents Cup team – 2007 Stuart Appleby â€¢ Ã�ngel Cabrera â€¢ K.J. Choi â€¢ Ernie Els â€¢ Retief Goosen â€¢ Trevor Immelman â€¢ Nick O'Hern â€¢ Geoff Ogilvy â€¢ Rory Sabbatini â€¢ Adam Scott â€¢ Vijay Singh â€¢ Mike Weir â€¢ Gary Player (non-playing captain)