Martin Laird was born on 29 December 1982 and is a Scottish professional golfer, playing on the PGA Tour.
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43 Facts About Martin Laird
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Martin Laird has won four PGA Tour events in his career, most recently the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in 2020.
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Martin Laird was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and played his Junior golf at Kirkintilloch Golf Club and then moving to play his youth golf at Hilton Park Golf Club.
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Martin Laird learned to play golf left-handed but eventually switched to playing right-handed.
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In 2000, at the age of 17 and with the assistance of College Prospects of America, Martin Laird moved to the United States to take up a golf scholarship at Colorado State University under head coach Jamie Bermel.
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Martin Laird played for the Colorado State Rams in the Mountain West Conference which had been established in 1999.
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Martin Laird finished at 1 over par for a tie for 96th place, 18 shots behind the winner, fellow Brit, Brian Davis.
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Martin Laird had only limited success with a best position of tied 18th in 19 events and earnings of $18,488 placed him 156th in the Nationwide Tour's money list.
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Martin Laird did not play on the Nationwide Tour but, as in 2004, he qualified for the final stage of the PGA Tour Qualifying School.
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Martin Laird ended the year at 251 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
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Martin Laird had tied 4th in the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open and then tied 4th again in the Wyndham Championship.
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Martin Laird eventually finished at 67 in the FedEx Cup standings and he took $110,000 of the Bonus Pool.
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Bertsch failed to make the cut and with Martin Laird finishing the tournament tied for 21st, the $49,680 he won gave him 125th place on the PGA Tour's money list $11,504 ahead of Bertsch, who dropped to 126th.
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On 26 May, Martin Laird secured a place at the 2009 Open Championship after making it through the American qualifier in Texas.
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Martin Laird gained one of the 13 spots available with rounds of 67 and 70, to make it in by one shot.
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Martin Laird won $264,000 and raised his Official World Golf Ranking from 303 to 236.
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Later in 2009, Martin Laird won the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in a three-man playoff for his first PGA Tour win, securing his Tour card for 2010 and 2011.
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Martin Laird took the first prize of $756,000 and jumped from 134th to 62nd on the money list.
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Martin Laird became the highest ranked Scot in the Official World Golf Rankings, his ranking rising from 237 to 108.
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Martin Laird tied for 4th in season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions and tied 10th in the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.
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Martin Laird hit the green in 2 but then 3 putted from 30 feet, this time missing a 7-foot putt which would have won the tournament outright, and fell into a tie with Kuchar.
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The second-place finish earned Martin Laird $810,000, left him 3rd in the revised FedEx Cup standings, and boosted his world ranking from 120 to a new personal high of 61.
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Martin Laird eventually finished 11th in the final FedEx Cup standings and took $300,000 in Bonus Money, despite finishing last in The Tour Championship.
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Martin Laird had a rare European outing when he finished tied for 5th in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in October and then two weeks later returned to Las Vegas to defend the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open title that he won in 2009.
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Martin Laird had more chances to win but missed putts of varying lengths at the first three sudden-death playoff holes.
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Martin Laird did get automatic qualification for the PGA Championship and, with rounds of 70 and 74, made his first cut in a major championship.
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On 27 March 2011, Martin Laird claimed the biggest title of his career at the Arnold Palmer Invitational taking the first prize of $1,080,000.
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Martin Laird dropped three shots on the front nine and then had a double-bogey at the 11th.
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Martin Laird scored three birdies and a bogey in the next five holes, while Marino scored a bogey and then a double-bogey at the par three 17th hole, leaving Martin Laird now with a two shot lead.
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Martin Laird's second shot was on the green but eighty three feet away.
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Martin Laird finished 17th in the "regular season" FedEx Cup standings.
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Martin Laird started 2012 with second place in the season opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions, a result which lifted his world ranking to 33.
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Martin Laird then tied for the lead in the final round before a bogey on 18 put paid to his chances of victory.
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On 7 April 2013, Martin Laird won his third career PGA Tour event, the Valero Texas Open, by two strokes from Rory McIlroy.
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The win meant that Martin Laird was the last person to gain entry into the 2013 Masters Tournament, ending the streak of 16 consecutive American wins on the PGA Tour, 14 of them in the 2013 season.
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Martin Laird won in a playoff over Matthew Wolff and Austin Cook with a birdie on the second playoff hole.
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Martin Laird is a long hitter, ranking in the top 20 on the PGA Tour average driving distance statistic in 2009,2010 and 2011.
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Martin Laird is currently coached by Mark McCann, having previously been coached by Randy Smith.
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Martin Laird's cousin David Weatherston was a Scottish professional football player.
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