Peter Fowler (born 9 June1959) is an Australiangolfer. June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and also is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ...
Fowler was born in Hornsby, New South Wales. He turned professional in 1977 and won the Australian Open in 1983. He has spent a large part of his career playing on the European Tour, where he made the top one hundred on the Order of Merit every year from 1983 to 1993, with a best ranking of twenty-second in 1989. After struggling for form in through the mid and late nineties he enjoyed a something of an India Summer between 2002 and 2004, returning to the top hundred for those three seasons. His only European Tour win came at the 1993 BMW International Open in Germany. Another career highlight was winning the 1989 World Cup for Australia in partnership with Wayne Grady, where besides the team title, Fowler won the prize for the best individual performance. He is also the uncle of Michael Fowler, a senior prefect and student at Pennant Hills High School Hornsby is the seat of Hornsby Shire, in the North Shore region of Sydney, Australia. ... The Australian Open is one of the principal annual golf tournaments on the PGA Tour of Australasia. ... The PGA European Tour is a top-level professional mens golf tour. ... The BMW International Open is an annual mens professional golf tournament on the European Tour. ... The WGC-World Cup is an annual mens golf tournament. ... Wayne Grady (born in Brisbane, 26 Jul 1957) is an Australian golfer. ...
The Australian Open is one of the principal annual golf tournaments on the PGA Tour of Australasia. ... The Singapore Open can refer to several sporting events bearing the same name, or at least in part: Singapore Open (badminton) Singapore Open (bowling) Singapore Open (golf) Singapore Open (table tennis) Category: ... The New Zealand Open, which is currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Blue Chip New Zealand Open, is the leading mens golf tournament in New Zealand. ... The BMW International Open is an annual mens professional golf tournament on the European Tour. ...
External links
Profile on the PGA Tour of Australasia's official site
Fowler was the son of the leading theoretical physicist Ralph Fowler and grandson of Lord Rutherford, the discoverer of the atomic nucleus.
Fowler descried his ambition as an undergraduate when returning to resume his studies as: To get into the University squash team, to find a girl and get married, and to do some exciting physics.
Fowler was also one of the first to give the correct explanation of the aurora phenomenon.
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