Graham Marsh

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Full name Graham Vivian Marsh European Tour 10 Weight 85 kg Nationality Australia Name Graham Marsh Current tours Champions Tour		Turned professional 1969 Role Golfer PGA tour wins 1 Professional wins 70 Height 1.80 m

Born 14 January 1944 (age 80) Kalgoorlie, Australia ( 1944-01-14 ) Former tour(s) PGA TourEuropean TourJapan Golf Tour Education University of Western Australia, Claremont Teachers College Similar People Stewart Ginn, David Graham, Peter Senior, Greg Norman

Graham marsh on his redesigned course at racv royal pines

Graham Vivian Marsh MBE (born 14 January 1944) was one of the leading Australian professional golfers of his generation.

Gary Player v Graham Marsh.World Matchplay.1973.Epic battle.

Career outline

Marsh was born in Kalgoorlie, Australia. He attended the University of Western Australia and Claremont Teachers College before turning professional in 1969.

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 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 Colgate 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, Europe and the United States. His work has included courses such as The Vines Resort (Perth), Palm Meadows Resort(Gold Coast) Old Silo (Kentucky), and Terry Hills Golf & Country Club just to name a few.

In 1984, Marsh was made 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.

European Tour wins (10)

European Tour playoff record (0–1)

Other European wins (4)

1970 Swiss Open (pre-European Tour)

1976 Dunhill Match-Play (PGA Tour bio list wins in both 1976 and 1977 but his bio at his Golf Design web site lists only one win in that tournament (year unspecified))

1977 Lancome Trophy, Colgate World Match Play Championship (unofficial European Tour)