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Graham Marsh

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Graham Vivian Marsh (born 14 January 1944) was one of the leading Australian golfers of his generation. He was born in Kalgoorlie, Australia. He attended the University of Western Australia and Claremont Teachers College before turning professional in 1969.

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[edit] Career outline

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Marsh was a regular winner on the European Tour, the Japan Golf Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia. He also won several events in Asia outside of Japan and one on the U.S. based PGA Tour, the 1977 Heritage Classic. Marsh had an outstanding win rate on the European Tour, where he accumulated eleven titles even though he never played more than seven events in Europe in a season. He also won the World Match Play Championship, which was not an official money European Tour event at the time, in England in 1977. He had 56 wins in all in his regular career, making him one of the most successful players of his era not to win a major championship.

As a senior Marsh has played extensively in the United States on the Champions Tour winning six events including two senior majors, the 1997 U.S. Senior Open and the 1999 Tradition. He has also won the Japan Senior Open twice.

Marsh is also active in golf course design through Graham Marsh Golf Design which he established in 1986. The company's early projects were in Australia and Japan, but it later branched out to other parts of Asia and to Europe and the United States.

In 1984 Marsh was an MBE for services to golf. He is a past chairman of the PGA Tour of Australasia.

His younger brother Rod Marsh was a distinguished Australian cricketer and coach.

[edit] European Tour wins

[edit] Other regular career wins

  • 1970 Watties Tournament, Swiss Open
  • 1971 Spaulding Masters, Indian Open
  • 1972 Dunlop International
  • 1973 Thailand Open, Indian Open, Fuji Sankei Classic
  • 1974 Malaysian Open, Fuji Sankei Classic, Dunlop Wizard, Tokyo Open, Pepsi-Wilson
  • 1975 Dunlop Wizard, Tokyo Open, Malaysian Open
  • 1976 Dunlop Open, Suntory Open, Dunlop Phoenix, KBC Augusta, Dunhill Match-Play, Western Australia Open
  • 1977 Heritage Classic (PGA Tour), World Match Play Championship (unofficial European Tour), Dunhill Match-Play, Suntory Open, Dunlop Wizard, Chunichi Crowns
  • 1978 Western Australia PGA
  • 1979 ANA Sapporo Open
  • 1981 Chunichi Open, Pepsi-Wilson
  • 1982 Ford Dealers South Australian Open, Australian Masters, Mayn Nickless Australian PGA Championship, Dunhill Queensland Open, Mitsubishi Galant
  • 1983 Yomiuri Open, Resch's Pilsner Tweed Classic, New Zealand PGA Championship
  • 1985 Tokai Classic
  • 1986 Suntory Open
  • 1987 Visa Taiheiyo Pacific Masters
  • 1989 Sapporo Tokyo Open
  • 1990 Tokai Classic

[edit] Champions Tour wins

Marsh's senior majors are shown in bold.

[edit] Other senior career wins

[edit] External links

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