Michael Richard Weir, CM OOnt is a Canadian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is best known for winning the Masters Tournament in 2003, making him the only Canadian man to ever win a major. He spent over 110 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 2001 and 2005.
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Michael Richard Weir, CM OOnt is a Canadian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is best known for winning the Masters Tournament in 2003, making him the only Canadian man to ever win a major. He spent over 110 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 2001 and 2005. Weir gave up hockey in his early teenage years when he realized he would not grow past average size and that golf was his best sport. He won the Ontario Amateur Championship in 1990 and 1992. Weir is a right-hander who plays golf left-handed, a trait he shares with fellow Pga Tour pro and major champion Mickelson. He was an All-American selection at BYU in 1992 on the Second Team. Weir turned professional in 1992, and started on the Canadian Professional Golf Tour, where he won three events. He shared the 54 holes lead at the 1999 PGA Championship with Tiger Woods but finished T-10. Weir was the 20th player to post multiple wins at the Nissan Open, becoming the sixth player to notch back-to-back wins, and the first since Corey Pavin in 2004. He tied for third at the U.S. Open, the second of the major majors, in June 2003.
For his outstanding play in the 2003, Weir won the Lou Marsh Trophy for outstanding athlete of the year. He went more than three-and-a-half years without a win on the tour before his second win at the next Nissan Open in February 2004. In February 2004, Weir joined the world’s top ten ranks for the first time in his career, and was ranked third in the world. In April 2004, he was ranked 20th, the first player to do so in more than two years. He became only the second left- handed golfer to win any of the four majors, the other being Bob Charles, who won the British Open forty years earlier. He also won the 1999 Air Canada Championship in Surrey, British Columbia, which made him the first Canadian to win a PGA tour event in Canada in 45 years. His first PGA win came in 1999, and he was medalist at the final Qualifying School tournament. In 2000, he won the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in Palm Springs, California, and then followed up with a win at Riviera Country Club near Los Angeles, at theissan Open. In 2002, he became the first man to win three consecutive tournaments on the West Coast Swing.
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