73 Facts About Nick Faldo

Sir Nicholas Alexander Nick Faldo, was born on 18 July 1957 and is an English retired professional golfer and television commentator.

Nick Faldo has since become a television commentator for major golf championships.

In 2012, Nick Faldo joined the BBC Sport on-air team for coverage of the Open Championship.

Nick Faldo was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, in 1957, as the only child of Joyce and George Nick Faldo, an accountant at Imperial Chemical Industries.

Nick Faldo's successes came too late to gain a Walker Cup place that year, the match being played in late May with the team selected in November 1974.

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Nick Faldo represented Great Britain in the Commonwealth Tournament in South Africa in November 1975.

Nick Faldo attended for ten weeks, but he felt the distraction of going to school hurt his golf game.

Nick Faldo achieved instant European Tour successes, finishing eighth on the Order of Merit in 1977, and third in 1978; and winning a European Tour event in each of those seasons .

Nick Faldo continued his European Tour successes in the early 1980s, winning two consecutive Sun Alliance PGA Championships in England, in 1980 and 1981.

Nick Faldo finished top of the Order of Merit in 1983, with five European Tour victories.

Two months later, in July 1987, Nick Faldo claimed his first major title at The Open Championship at Muirfield.

Nick Faldo holed a five-foot putt on the final hole for his 18th consecutive par.

At the 1988 U S Open, Faldo ended 72 holes of regulation play in a tie for the lead with Curtis Strange.

However, on the 16th hole Nick Faldo found himself with a difficult bunker shot to play.

Nick Faldo missed a 25-foot birdie putt on the 18th green which would have made him the first British player since Tony Jacklin in 1970 to hold both major national championships.

Nick Faldo won his second major championship at the 1989 Masters.

Nick Faldo came from behind to get into a playoff with Raymond Floyd, winning on the second playoff hole after Floyd pulled his approach shot into a pond left of the green.

Nick Faldo refused to come to the press tent after his final round and later, en route to the locker room, snapped at a journalist who suggested that he had hit his putt too hard on the final green.

Nick Faldo won the famous Claret Jug trophy for a third time in the 1992 Open Championship at Muirfield.

Nick Faldo had a 54-hole lead of four shots in the 1992 Open, before losing the lead during the back-nine of the final round to American John Cook.

Nick Faldo recovered with birdies on two of the last four holes to win by a stroke over Cook, who bogeyed the 72nd hole.

Nick Faldo claimed the European Tour Order of Merit a second time in 1992.

In July 1993, Nick Faldo won the Carroll's Irish Open for an unprecedented third time in a row.

Nick Faldo won the sudden death playoff at the first extra hole.

Later that month, as defending Open champion, Nick Faldo was involved in a memorable duel with rival Greg Norman in the Open Championship at Royal St George's Golf Club.

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Nick Faldo played some excellent golf in his final round of 67, but he finished runner-up, two strokes behind Norman, who shot a spectacular final round of 64.

Nick Faldo went into the final round at the 1996 Masters trailing Greg Norman by six shots, but was the beneficiary of an infamous Sunday collapse at Augusta by Norman; Nick Faldo shot a 67 to win by five over Norman, who struggled mightily en route to a 78.

At the 2002 U S Open, a month before his 45th birthday, Faldo finished in a very creditable position of tied for 5th place.

At the 2003 Open Championship at Royal St George's, Nick Faldo shot a fine third round of 67 and was briefly in contention for the tournament during the final round.

Nick Faldo closed to within two shots of the lead after a birdie at the 5th hole in the final round before holing a 30-foot eagle putt on the 7th.

In 2006, apart from appearances in the Masters and at the Open Championship, Nick Faldo played in only two other events on the European Tour that year.

Nick Faldo did play in the 2007 Open at Carnoustie, missing the cut.

Nick Faldo did not take part in the 2008 Open at Royal Birkdale.

Nick Faldo entered in 2009 at Turnberry and 2010 at St Andrews, but missed the 36-hole cut at both.

Nick Faldo opted not to take part in the 2011 Open at Royal St George's.

Nick Faldo decided not to compete in the 2012 Open, instead joining the BBC Sport commentary team for the event.

Nick Faldo decided to make the 2015 Open at St Andrews his final Open Championship appearance.

Nick Faldo spent a total of 97 weeks altogether at the top of the Official World Golf Ranking, an achievement surpassed by only one other competitor, Greg Norman, during the decade of the 1990s.

Nick Faldo is one of the most successful Ryder Cup players ever, having won 25 points and having represented the European Team a record 11 times.

Nick Faldo played a key role in making Europe competitive in the event.

Nick Faldo is the gold standard from which the rest of modern British golf has to be judged.

Nick Faldo's final round of 18 consecutive pars in cool misty conditions at Muirfield during the 1987 Open Championship was an example of steady play under pressure.

Former player and BBC commentator Peter Alliss suggested that much of the flair in Nick Faldo's game was lost in the mid-1980s when he remodelled his swing.

Nevertheless, Nick Faldo earns credit for the way in which he performed under pressure in his major victories.

Nick Faldo was renowned for his single-minded dedication to the game.

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However, Nick Faldo did shoot some spectacular rounds of golf at the height of his career.

For three consecutive Open Championships between 1992 and 1994, Nick Faldo carded one round of fewer than 65 strokes in each of the three Opens, shooting a 64 at Muirfield in 1992, a 63 at Royal St George's in 1993, and a 64 at Turnberry in 1994.

Nick Faldo had a reputation for being an insular character who did not engage in any of the usual social courtesies.

Nick Faldo stretched his arms out as if to say, 'Put the ball in your pocket, you idiot.

Nick Faldo kept up his short game too – he worked hard on that aspect of his game.

Nick Faldo had a way of folding his arms and looking at you as though he knew you were going to make a mistake.

Nick Faldo was selected as captain of the European Ryder Cup team in 2008.

Nick Faldo had made a bold move to pick Ian Poulter as his wild card ahead of the much favoured Darren Clarke, who already had two tour victories that season, including the KLM Open, which took place just two weeks before the captain's picks were announced.

Nick Faldo had an erratic relationship with the media prior to and during the competition.

Nick Faldo eventually admitted they were in fact possible player pairings and he'd been "caught out".

Nick Faldo brought more criticism upon himself by taking up the majority of his opening speech by talking about himself and his family.

Nick Faldo controversially decided to play Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood, the two most successful Ryder Cup players on his team, for only one session on the Saturday.

On 3 October 2006, it was announced that Nick Faldo had signed a contract with CBS to replace Lanny Wadkins as the network's lead golf analyst.

Nick Faldo has garnered less positive support since he began working on his own.

Nick Faldo joined Azinger and Tirico on ABC for the 2007 Open Championship.

Nick Faldo retired from CBS after 16 years in the broadcast booth; his final regular broadcast was at the Wyndham Championship, in August 2022.

In 1991, Nick Faldo launched his golf course design practice Nick Faldo Design, which has designed or remodelled dozens of courses spread across several continents.

Nick Faldo will be designing a championship golf course and a golf academy at Lavasa, India.

In 2007, Mercedes-Benz signed Nick Faldo to act as brand ambassador to promote the revival of the Maybach brand of ultra-luxury automobiles.

Nick Faldo was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1989 and inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1998.

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In 2000, Nick Faldo was ranked 18th greatest golfer of all time by Golf Digest magazine.

Nick Faldo was awarded the MBE in 1988 New Year Honours, then made a Knight Bachelor in the 2009 Birthday Honours for his services to golf.

Nick Faldo was announced as the 2014 recipient of the Payne Stewart Award on 9 September 2014.

Nick Faldo married Bennett in 1986 and the couple had three children: Natalie, Matthew and Georgia.

When Nick Faldo moved to America in 1995 to play full-time on the PGA tour, Bennett stayed at home in England.

The marriage ended later that year after Nick Faldo began a relationship with 20-year-old American golfing student Brenna Cepelak.

Nick Faldo left her fiance Olivier Delaloye and married Faldo in July 2001 in a lavish ceremony at his Windsor home.

Nick Faldo married his fourth wife Lindsay De Marco in December 2020, in the Florida Keys, after their wedding at Kensington Palace had to be called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.