Gregory John Norman AO is an Australian entrepreneur and retired professional golfer. He spent 331 weeks as the world’s Number 1 Official World Golf Rankings ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He has won 89 professional tournaments, including 20 PGA Tour tournaments and two majors: The Open Championships in 1986 and 1993. In a reference to his blond hair, size, aggressive golf style and his birthplace’s native coastal animal, Norman’s nickname is ‘The Great White Shark’ Norman was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Gregory John Norman AO is an Australian entrepreneur and retired professional golfer. He spent 331 weeks as the world’s Number 1 Official World Golf Rankings ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He has won 89 professional tournaments, including 20 PGA Tour tournaments and two majors: The Open Championships in 1986 and 1993. Norman also earned thirty top-10 finishes and was the runner-up 8 times in majors throughout his career. He currently serves as the chairman and CEO of the Greg Norman Company, a global corporation with a portfolio of companies in fields like apparel, interior design, real estate, private equity, golf course design, and more. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001 with the highest percentage of votes of any golfer to date. In a reference to his blond hair, size, aggressive golf style and his birthplace’s native coastal animal, Norman’s nickname is ‘The Great White Shark’ Norman was born in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia to Mervin and Toini Norman. His mother was the daughter of a Finnish carpenter, and his father an electrical engineer. As a youth, he played rugby and cricket and aspired to be a professional surfer. Norman attended Townsville Grammar School in Townsville, Queensland then moved on to Aspley State High School on the north side of Brisbane. Norman received media attention for one of the first times in June 1974, at the age of 19, when he was one back of the lead after the first round the Queensland Open. In 1975, Norman served as assistant professional under Billy McWilliam OAM at Beverley Park Golf Club in Sydney, New South Wales.
In 1976, six years after he first began to golf, Norman turned professional as a tournament player. He joined the European Tour in 1977, and had his first victory in a European event that same season, the Martini International. In 1980, Norman earned a sizable victory in the French Open, winning the tournament by ten shots. He won the Scandinavian Enterprise Open in Sweden with a course record of 64 in the final round. Norman won his first Australian Open that year, his first of five wins in that event. In 1981, Norman finished in 4th place on his debut at the Masters in Augusta, finishing just three strokes behind the winner Tom Watson. In 1982, Norman was the leading money winner on the European tour, including successfully defending his British Masters title. The following year, Norman joined the U.S. S. PGA tour and won his maiden PGA Tournament victory at the Kemper Open in June 1984. Norman holed a dramatic 45-foot putt on the 72nd hole to force a playoff with former Masters champion Fuzzy Zoeller. In 1985, Norman won the Australian PGA Championship and the National Panasonic Australian Open. He had two runner up finishes in the SGA Tour and finished second place at the Canadian Open, finishing second place for the second year in a row. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Greg Norman was announced as a Q150 Icons of Queensland.
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