Tag: Mark O’Meara

Hall of Famer Mark O’Meara announces retirement from professional golf. See his career in photos

What a career.

Mark O’Meara is calling it a career and he’s doing it where he enjoyed some of his finest moments.

The 2015 Golf Hall of Fame inductee announced Monday on Golf Channel he was retiring after this week’s Pure Insurance Championship on the PGA Tour Champions at Pebble Beach Golf Links. He won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am five times.

O’Meara is a 16-time PGA Tour winner and two-time major champion, winning the Masters and Open Championship in 1998 as his final PGA Tour victories. He played in 674 events on the PGA Tour, making the cut 444 times and amassing more than $14 million in career earnings.

This week will mark O’Meara’s 284th start on PGA Tour Champions, where he has three victories, his last coming in 2019. He has one senior major, the 2010 Senior Players Championship.

O’Meara was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and took up golf at 13 years old when he lived in Mission Viejo, California. He was an All-American at Long Beach State and won the U.S. Amateur in 1979.

His first PGA Tour victory came in 1984 at the Greater Milwaukee Open. Then in 1998, he finally got his first major, capturing the green jacket at Augusta National in the Masters. Later that year, he added the Claret Jug to his trophy case, winning at Royal Birkdale. He’s one of 16 golfers to claim two majors in one season with the Open being one of them.

He announced on the Friday of the 2018 Masters after missing the cut that it was his last Masters, 20 years after he won his green jacket.

O’Meara developed a strong relationship with Tiger Woods in the latter stages of his career while Woods was just beginning. Woods slid the green jacket on O’Meara’s shoulders after his ’97 victory at the Masters.

He reached a high of No. 2 in the Official World Golf Ranking in that 1998 season. For his career, he totaled 34 professional victories. He won five European Tour events, two on the Japan Golf Tour and numerous others.

O’Meara earned PGA Tour Rookie of the Year honors in 1981 and then was named PGA Tour Player of the Year in 1998.

Here’s a look at Mark O’Meara’s career in photos.

Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas highlight a stacked 2021 PNC Championship field

Thanks to Tiger Woods’ commitment last week, the field at this week’s PNC Championship is now 20 teams.

On December 8th, Tiger Woods announced that he, and son Charlie, committed to play in this week’s PNC Championship, just 10 months after his car accident.

Incredible.

The last time we saw Woods play golf on television was at this event back in 2020. Time really is a flat circle.

However, the Woods-duo isn’t the only big-name partnership headed to Florida. Defending champions Justin and his father Mike Thomas will look to triumph again. Bubba Watson will be playing with his father-in-law, while Nelly Korda will be playing with her dad, Petr.

HOW TO WATCH: Tiger, Charlie and the PNC Championship

Here’s a look at the 20 partnerships at this year’s PNC Championship, which requires that each team have a major champion. The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Orlando, Grande Lakes is the host venue.