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Mark O'Meara (born January 13, 1957 in Goldsboro,
North Carolina|Goldsboro, North Carolina) is an
American golfer who was a prolific tournament
winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from
the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. 

==Career outline==

O'Meara has won sixteen events on the PGA Tour,
starting with the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1984,
but he passed his fortieth birthday without
winning a major championship. In a late finale to
his PGA Tour winning career, which many attributed
partly to the inspiration of working with Tiger
Woods, the new superstar of the game at the time,
with whom O'Meara had become good friends, O'Meara
won two majors in 1998, namely The Masters
Tournament|The Masters and The Open Championship.
In the same year he won the World Matchplay
Championship.

O'Meara is known for competing outside the United
States more ofter than most leading American
golfers, and has won tournaments in Europe, Asia,
Australia and South America. A man with a genial
demeanour, he is one of the most popular figures
in international golf. In the new Millennium his
form took a downturn and he began to struggle with
injuries, but in 2004 he won an official tour
event for the first time since 1998, taking the
Dubai Desert Classic title, which despite being
played in Asia is a PGA European Tour event.

O'Meara has begun to develop a golf course design
practice.

==PGA Tour wins==

*1984  Greater Milwaukee Open  
*1985  Bing Crosby National Pro-Am,  Hawaiian Open
 
*1989  AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am  
*1990  AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am,  H.E.B.
Texas Open  
*1991  Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic  
*1992  AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am  
*1995  Honda Classic,  Bell Canadian Open  
*1996  Mercedes Championships,  Greater Greensboro
Chrysler Classic  
*1997  AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am,  Buick
Invitational  
*1998  Masters Tournament,  The Open Championship

Major championships are shown in bold.

==Other wins==

*1985 Fuji Sankei Classic (Japan) 
*1986 Australian Masters 
*1987 Lawrence Batley International (PGA European
Tour)
*1989 RMCC (with Curtis Strange)
*1992 Tokai Classic (Japan)
*1994 Argentine Open 
*1997 Trophée Lancôme (PGA European Tour)
*1998 Cisco World Match Play Championship (Europe
- unofficial event), Skins Game (U.S. - unofficial
event)
*1999 WGC-World Cup|World Cup (with Tiger Woods) 
*2000 Fred Meyer Challenge 
*2002 Skins Game (U.S. - unofficial event)
*2004 Dubai Desert Classic (PGA European Tour)

==International appearances==

*Ryder Cup: 1985, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999
*Presidents Cup: 1996, 1998
*WGC-World Cup|World Cup: 1999

==External link==
*http://www.pgatour.com/players/bio/132082 Profile
and statistics on the PGA Tour's official site
*http://www.golfstarsonline.com/O/Mark_O_Meara/
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