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Mark McNulty (b. 25 Oct 1953) is golfer who was
one of the leading players on the PGA European
Tour from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s.

==Career outline==
McNulty was born in Bindwa Zimbabwe, but he became
a citizen of the Republic of Ireland in 2003 at
the age of 50. He was eligible to do so because
his maternal grandmother was born in Ballymena,
and he explained that his reason for doing so was
that he was concerned that as a non-resident
Zimbabwean it could take him up to two years to
get his passport renewed if he lost it. Despite
his citizenship, the European Tour's website
states that he lives in Sunningdale in England.
Sunningdale is in a wealthy town in the
"stockbroker belt" to the west of London. Several
of England's top courses are in this area and the
likes of Ernie Els and Nick Faldo live nearby.

After a successful amateur career McNulty began
his professional career on the Southern African
Tour, now the Sunshine Tour and he also played on
the European Tour from 1978. His first
professional win was the 1979 Holiday Inns Royal
Swazi Sun Open in South Africa. By 1986 he was the
dominant player on the Southern African Tour,
picking up seven official wins in that year and
also winning South Africa's most lucrative event,
the unofficial Million Dollar Challenge. In the
same year he finished in the top ten on the
European Tour's order of merit for the first time,
placing sixth. He had six top ten European order
of merit finishes in total, including second
places in 1987 and 1990. The last of these was in
1996, when he came fifth. His win tally on the
European Tour was sixteen, the most prestigious of
which was the 1996 Volvo Masters, which is the
European equivalent of the PGA Tour|PGA Tour's
Tour Championship.

McNulty continued to perform consistently through
his forties, apart from a couple of disappointing
seasons. When he turned fifty and became eligible
to play senior golf he chose to take part in the
U.S. based Champions Tour. His first full season
in 2004 was highly successful with three wins
including the senior "tour championship" (the
Charles Schwab Cup), and a seventh place finish on
the money list.

McNulty lists his interests as piano, fine arts
and koi fish.

==European Tour wins==
*1979 Greater Manchester Open
*1980 Braun German Open
*1986 Portuguese Open
*1987 London Standard Four Stars National
Pro-Celebrity, Dunhill British Masters, German
Open
*1988 Cannes Open
*1989 Torras Monte Carlo
*1990 Credit Lyonnais Cannes Open, Volvo German
Open
*1991 Volvo German Open
*1994 BMW International Open
*1996 Dimension Data Pro-Am, Sun Microsystems
Dutch Open, Volvo Masters
*2001 Mercedes-Benz South African Open
(co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour)

==Champions Tour wins==
*2004 Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am , SBC
Championship, Charles Schwab Cup Championship 
*2005 Bank of America Championship

==Other professional wins==
*1979 Holiday Inns Royal Swazi Sun Open (South
Africa)
*1980 Malaysian Open
*1981 SAB South African Masters (South Africa)
*1982 SISA Classic, SAB Masters, Sharp Electronics
Classic, Sun City Classic (all South Africa)
*1984 Pan Am Wild Coast Sun Classic (South Africa)
*1985 Palabora Classic, Swazi Sun Pro-Am,
Safmarine Masters (all South Africa)
*1986 Safmarine Masters, Wild Coast Classic,
Barclays Bank Classic, Swazi Sun Pro Am, Trustbank
Tournament of Champions, Helix Wild Coast Sun
Classic, Germiston Centenary Tournament, Million
Dollar Challenge (all South Africa)
*1987 South African Open, AECI Charity Classic,
Swazi Sun Pro-Am, Trustbank Tournament of
Champions (all South Africa)
*1988 Benson and Hedges Trophy (with Marie Laure
de Lorenzi) (Spain)
*1992 Zimbabwe Open (Challenge Tour)
*1993 Lexington PGA Championship (South Africa),
FNB Players Championship (South Africa)
*1996 Zimbabwe Open
*1997 San Lameer SA Masters (South Africa), Nashua
Wild Coast Challenge (South Africa)
*1998 Vodacom Players Championship (South Africa)
*2000 Stenham Swazi Open (South Africa), Cabs Old
Mutual Zimbabwe Open
*2001 Nashua Nedtel Cellular Masters
*2002 Vodacom Players Championship (South Africa)

==Team appearances==
*Eisenhower Trophy (amateur): 1974
*Alfred Dunhill Cup: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,
1998, 2000
*World Cup of Golf|World Cup: 1993, 1994, 1995,
1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001
*Presidents Cup: 1994, 1996
*UBS Cup: 2004

==Amateur wins==
*1974 Zimbabwe Amateur Champiioship
*1977 South African Amateur Stroke Play
Championship

==See also==
*Golfers with most European Tour wins

==External links==
*http://www.europeantour.com/players/bio.sps?iPlay
erNo=724&sOption=history Profile on the PGA
European Tour's official site
*http://www.pgatour.com/players/bio/401327 Profile
on the PGA Tour's official site
*http://indigo.ie/~kands/kands/html/mcnult.html An
article about McNulty's assumption of Irish
citizenship
*http://www.golfstarsonline.com/M/Mark_McNulty/
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