Player Profiles

Geoff Ogilvy

  • DOB: 11/08/1977
  • Birth Place: Adelaide, Australia
  • Height: 6ft 2
Geoff Ogilvy

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There are few enigmas in golf like the willowy Melbourne man. He is proudly Australian and yet boasts genes from the British royal family. He was the hothead who transformed himself into the calmest man in the sport. He is widely appreciated as one of the smartest brains in golf yet his schedule often looks a little cock-eyed. And he is the double winner at blustery Kapalua in the season-opening Mercedes Championship who professes he cannot play in wind due to his high ball flight. He won this event - his only major so far - in 2006 due to his own brilliance and the errors of others. Ogilvy holed a 30-foot chip shot at the 17th before getting up and down for par at the 18th and then watched on as Colin Montgomerie and Phil Mickelson double bogeyed the last to hand him the title. He again made the top 10 in the 2008 US Open at Torrey Pines but his form in the majors went south after that until he produced a late charge to finish fourth in this year's Masters - his best finish at Augusta National. Twelth on his last visit to Congressional in the 2007 AT&T National, the Aussie could be a man to fear.

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