Mike Weir spent over 110 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 2001 and 2005.
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37 Facts About Mike Weir
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Mike Weir plays golf left-handed and is best known for winning the Masters Tournament in 2003, making him the only Canadian man to ever win a major.
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Mike Weir learned to play golf at Huron Oaks Golf Course, and was coached there by Steve Bennett.
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Mike Weir was fortunate in that his godfather's son played left-handed and had a partial set of spare clubs that he handed down to Mike Weir—three woods and four irons.
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Mike Weir gave up hockey in his early teenage years when he realized he would not grow past average size and that golf was his best sport.
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In 1984, Mike Weir decided to write Nicklaus for advice as to whether to make the switch.
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Mike Weir never thought of switching to right-handed play again, and still keeps the letter, now framed, in his home.
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Mike Weir is a graduate of Brigham Young University, and won the Ontario Amateur Championship in 1990 and 1992.
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Mike Weir tied for 2nd at the 1991 Canadian Amateur Championship, and finished clear second in that event in 1992.
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Mike Weir was an All-American selection at BYU in 1992 on the Second Team.
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Mike Weir turned professional in 1992, and started on the Canadian Professional Golf Tour, where he won three events.
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Mike Weir first reached the PGA Tour in 1998, but lost his playing privileges, due to insufficient performance.
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Mike Weir had to requalify, and did so by being medalist at the final Qualifying School tournament.
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Mike Weir shared the 54 holes lead at the 1999 PGA Championship with Tiger Woods but finished T-10.
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Mike Weir began the 2003 season in impressive fashion, winning two tournaments on the West Coast Swing.
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Mike Weir first won the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in Palm Springs, California, and then followed with a win at Riviera Country Club near Los Angeles, at the Nissan Open.
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Mike Weir is the only Canadian male ever to win a professional major championship.
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At the time he won the Masters, Mike Weir became only the second left-handed golfer to win any of the four majors, the other being Bob Charles, who won the British Open forty years earlier .
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Mike Weir is a right-hander who plays golf left-handed, a trait he shares with fellow PGA Tour pro and major champion Mickelson.
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Mike Weir maintained his position in the world's top ten ranking into 2004.
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In February 2004, Mike Weir joined the ranks of a select few players including Ben Hogan to win consecutive championships at the Nissan Open, becoming the sixth player in Nissan Open history to notch back-to-back wins, and the first since Corey Pavin .
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Mike Weir went more than three-and-a-half years after his second win at the Nissan Open before his next win on tour.
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Mike Weir got to play in the tournament he helped bring to Canada because he was picked by International team captain Gary Player as one of his discretionary selections.
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Mike Weir was going away from the 'stack-and-tilt' method and working on reclaiming his swing as developed with Wilson.
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Mike Weir had trouble making cuts and did not finish high enough to retain significant status on the Tour, being demoted to the Past Champions category, among the lowest in the PGA Tour exemption priority rankings.
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Mike Weir missed his next two cuts on the PGA Tour following Pebble Beach but made the weekend on the European Tour in the Open de Andalucia.
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Mike Weir joined the TNT broadcast team for the 2016 PGA Championship, as an on-course reporter.
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In 2019, Mike Weir announced he would play the entire season on the Web.
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In May 2021, Mike Weir won his first tournament on the PGA Tour Champions.
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Mike Weir announced plans to open his own winery in the summer of 2008.
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Mike Weir called it an "extremely difficult" decision to withdraw from his country's national open.
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Mike Weir was named as a captain's assistant to Nick Price for the 2017 Presidents Cup competition and to Ernie Els for the 2019 Presidents Cup.
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