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Sam Torrance (b. 24 August 1953) is a
Scotland|Scottish golfer who was one of the
leading players on the PGA European Tour from the
mid 1970s to the late 1990s and was the winning
non-playing captain of the European Ryder Cup team
in 2002.

Torrance turned professional at 16 and joined the
European Tour at seventeen. He achieved his first
professional win in 1972 and his first European
Tour win in 1976. He won twenty-one times on the
European Tour; only fellow Scot Colin Montgomerie
has accumulated more European Tour titles without
winning one of golf's four major championships.
His best finish on the Tour's order of merit was
second, which he achieved in 1984 and 1995. In
total he finished in the top ten on the list ten
times. In 2003 Torrance became eligible to play in
senior tournaments and he picked up his first win
on the European Seniors Tour in 2004.

Torrance played for Europe in the Ryder Cup eight
times. In 1985 he sank the winning put which
deprived the Americans of the trophy for the first
times in twenty-eight years. Seventeen years later
he was the non-playing captain on the European
team which won the 2002 Cup at The De Vere
Belfry|The Belfry.

Torrance married English actress Suzanne Danielle
in 1988. He was awarded an Order of the British
Empire|MBE in 1996 for services to golf and an
Order of the British Empire|OBE in the 2003 New
Year Honours List for his captaincy of Europe's
Ryder Cup team.

==European Tour wins==
*1976 Piccadilly Medal, Martini International
*1981 Carroll's Irish Open
*1982 Benson & Hedges Spanish Open, Portuguese
Open
*1983 Scandinavian Enterprise Open, Portuguese
Open
*1984 Tunisian Open, Benson & Hedges International
Open, Sanyo Open
*1985 Johnnie Walker Monte Carlo Open
*1987 Lancia Italian Open
*1990 Mercedes German Masters
*1991 Jersey European Airways Open
*1993 Kronenbourg Open, Heineken Open, Honda Open
*1995 Italian Open, Murphy's Irish Open,
Collingtree British Masters
*1998 Peugeot Open de France

==Other wins==
*1972 Radici Open (Italy), Under-25 Match Play
Championship
*1975 Zambian Open
*1978 Scottish Professional Championship
*1979 Colombian Open
*1980 Australian PGA Championship, Scottish
Professional Championship
*1983 C* Scottish PGA Championship (Challenge
Tour)
*1985 Scottish Professional Championship
*1991 Scottish Professional Championship
*1993 Scottish Professional Championship
*2004 Travis Perkins Senior Masters (European
Seniors Tour)

==Team appearances==
*Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1981, 1983, 1985
(winners), 1987 (winners), 1989 (tied and retained
trophy), 1991, 1993, 1995 (winners), 2002
(non-playing captain of winning team)
*Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Scotland): 1985,
86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 93, 95 (winning team), 99
*World Cup of Golf|World Cup (representing
Scotland): 1976, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987,
1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
*Four Tours World Championship: 1985, 1991
(winning captain)
*Hennessy Cognac Cup: 1976 (winners), 1978
(winners), 1980 (winners), 1982 (winners), 1984
*Double Diamond: 1973 (winners), 1976, 1977
*UBS Cup: 2001, 2002, 2003

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

==External links==
*http://www.europeantour.com/players/bio.sps?iPlay
erNo=193&sOption=profile Profile on the European
Tour's official site
*http://www.golfstarsonline.com/T/Sam_Torrance/
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