Peter Thomson (born 1929) is an Australian golfer. He is best remembered for his five wins in The Open Championship. 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Golf (gowf in Scots) is a game where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ... 2005 Open Champion Tiger Woods holding the Claret Jug. ...

He was born in Melbourne. Thomson's Open Championship wins came in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, and 1965. He was the only man to win the tournament for three consecutive years in the 20th century. Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3. ...

Thomson was a prolific tournament champion around the world, winning the national championships of ten countries, including the New Zealand Open nine times. He did not play in the United States very often, and he only won one event on the PGA Tour. His best finish in one of the three majors staged in the United States was a fourth place at the 1956 U.S. Open. The PGA Tour is an organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA that operates the USAs main professional golf tours for men. ... The Major Championships, often referred to simply as the Majors are the four most prestigious annual tournaments in mens professional golf. ... The United States Open Championship is an annual mens golf tournament staged by the United States Golf Association each June. ...

Thomson enjoyed a successful senior career. In 1985 he won nine times on the Senior PGA Tour in the United States, and finished top of the money list. His last tournament victory came at the 1988 British PGA Senior Tournament. He was president of the Australian PGA from 1962 to 1994 and a victorious non-playing captain of the international team in the 1998 Presidents Cup. The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA TOUR, hosts 30 events annually in the United States and Canada for golfers 50 and older. ... Presidents Cup The Presidents Cup is a series of golf matches between teams of professional players representing the United States and the rest of the world less Europe, which competes against the U.S. in a similar but considerably older event, the Ryder Cup. ...

Wins

• 1947 Australian Foursomes Shield (with H.R. Payne)
• 1948 Victoria Amateur Championship, leading amateur at the Australian Open
• 1950 New Zealand Open
• 1951 Australian Open, New Zealand Open
• 1953 New Zealand Open, New Zealand PGA Championship
• 1954 The Open Championship, British PGA Championship, Canada Cup (with Kel Nagle)
• 1955 The Open Championship, New Zealand Open
• 1956 The Open Championship
• 1957 Yorkshire Evening News Tournament
• 1958 The Open Championship, Dunlop Tournament (United Kingdom), Daks Tournament (tied)
• 1959 Canada Cup (with Kel Nagle), New Zealand Open, Italian Open, Spanish Open
• 1960 Yorkshire Evening News Tournament, New Zealand Open, Daks Tournament, Bowmaker Tournament, New Zealand Open, German Open, Hong Kong Open
• 1961 British PGA Match Play Championship, Yorkshire Evening News Dunlop Masters, Esso Golden (tied), New Zealand Open
• 1962 Piccadilly Tournament, Martini International
• 1963 Indian Open
• 1964 Philippines Open
• 1965 The Open Championship, Daks Tournament, Hong Kong Open, New Zealand Open
• 1966 British PGA Match Play Championship
• 1967 New Zealand Caltex Tournament, British PGA Match Play Championship, Alcan International, Australian PGA Championship, Australian Open
• 1968 Dunlop Masters (UK)
• 1972 Australian Open (golf), Wills Tournament (United Kingdom)
• 1973 Victorian Open (Australia)
• 1976 Indian Open

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See also

• List of golfers with most major title wins
• Peter Thomson Golflegends.org