Ross Daniel Fisher (born 22 November 1980) is an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
professional
golfGolf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players , using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area...
er.
Fisher was born in
Ascot, BerkshireAscot is a small town within the civil parish of Sunninghill and Ascot, in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. It is most notable as the location of Ascot Racecourse, home of the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting...
. His home course is the famous Wentworth Golf Club,
SurreySurrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford...
, England, location of the European Tour administrative headquarters. As a child, he attended
Charters SchoolCharters School is a secondary school located in Sunningdale, Berkshire. In December 2006 it was graded 1 outstanding by OFSTED. The school has had several cases 2009 flu pandemic known as Swine Flu However the updates have now stopped due to the fact the school is on their Summer Holidays....
, a
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comprehensiveA comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. The term is commonly used in relation to the United Kingdom, where comprehensive schools were introduced in the late 1940s to the early 1970s. It corresponds broadly to the...
close to Wentworth. He and his wife Joanne have a daughter Eve Rose. Fisher joined the
European TourThe PGA European Tour is an organisation which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Seniors Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour. Its headquarters are at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England...
in 2006. He earned his card by finishing in 18th on the
Challenge TourThe Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...
's money list in 2005.
Ross Daniel Fisher (born 22 November 1980) is an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
professional
golfGolf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players , using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area...
er.
Fisher was born in
Ascot, BerkshireAscot is a small town within the civil parish of Sunninghill and Ascot, in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. It is most notable as the location of Ascot Racecourse, home of the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting...
. His home course is the famous Wentworth Golf Club,
SurreySurrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford...
, England, location of the European Tour administrative headquarters. As a child, he attended
Charters SchoolCharters School is a secondary school located in Sunningdale, Berkshire. In December 2006 it was graded 1 outstanding by OFSTED. The school has had several cases 2009 flu pandemic known as Swine Flu However the updates have now stopped due to the fact the school is on their Summer Holidays....
, a
stateState school is an expression used in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom to distinguish schools provided by the government from privately run schools.- United Kingdom :...
comprehensiveA comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. The term is commonly used in relation to the United Kingdom, where comprehensive schools were introduced in the late 1940s to the early 1970s. It corresponds broadly to the...
close to Wentworth. He and his wife Joanne have a daughter Eve Rose. Fisher joined the
European TourThe PGA European Tour is an organisation which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Seniors Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour. Its headquarters are at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England...
in 2006. He earned his card by finishing in 18th on the
Challenge TourThe Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...
's money list in 2005. During Fisher's first season on the European Tour he won a
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for a nearest to the pin contest in the 2006 Quinn Direct British Masters. In 2007 he won the
KLM OpenThe KLM Open is an annual golf tournament played in The Netherlands, and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the Tour was inaugurated in 1972. Founded in 1912, the tournament was originally known as the Dutch Open, before a variety of sponsors resulted in numerous name changes over...
by one stroke over
Joost LuitenJoost Luiten is a Dutch professional golfer.Luiten was born in Bleiswijk. He is currently a member of the European Tour. After a failed bid for a tour card on the Qualifying School he started his professional career on the EPD Tour where he claimed the second place twice in just four starts...
and subsequently finished the year ranked 43rd on the Order of Merit.
Fisher started the 2008 season with a joint-second place in the
HSBC ChampionsThe WGC-HSBC Champions is a men's professional golf 72-hole tournament contested annually since 2005 in November on a course designed by Nelson & Haworth at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, People's Republic of China...
tournament in
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, beaten by
Phil MickelsonPhilip Alfred Mickelson is an American professional golfer. He has won three major championships and a total of 37 events on the PGA Tour. He has reached a career high world ranking of 2nd in multiple years...
in a three-way play-off that also featured
Lee WestwoodLee John Westwood is an English professional golfer. He is one of the few golfers who has won tournaments on every major continent, including victories on the European Tour and the PGA Tour. He was named player of the year for the 1998 and 2000 seasons, winning the later year's Order of Merit. He...
. In July 2008, Fisher won the
European OpenThe European Open is a European Tour golf tournament. Founded in 1978, up to 1994 it was played at various courses in England, including Sunningdale and Walton Heath, except for the 1979 event, which was held at Turnberry in Scotland...
on the Heritage Course at The London Golf Club; the first staging of the event at the venue in
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,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. Despite never having played the course either in competition or in practice, Fisher shot a first round 63 - the lowest round of his professional career - which featured a wind-assisted 413 yard drive on the 9th hole, his last of the day. Having established a first round lead, he was never subsequently headed at the top of the leaderboard, going on to win the tournament by a comfortable seven shots from
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. Fisher played steadily for the rest of the season and finished sixth on the Order of Merit.
Fisher's progress continued in 2009 when he reached the semi-final of the
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in
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and finished second at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. On both occasions Fisher was defeated by countryman
Paul CaseyPaul Alexander Casey is an English golfer who is a member of the world's top two professional golf tours, the U.S.-based PGA Tour and the European Tour. He is currently ranked #3, behind Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.-Career:...
. He finished fifth in the
U.S. OpenThe United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...
at Bethpage Black,
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. At the 138th Open Championship at Turnberry, he held a two stroke lead in the early stages of the final round before taking a quadruple bogey eight on the par four 5th hole, eventually finishing in a tie for 13th place.
Results in major championships
| Tournament |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
| The Masters |
DNP |
DNP |
T30 |
U.S. OpenThe United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...
|
DNP |
CUT |
5 |
The Open ChampionshipThe Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only major held outside the USA and is administered by the R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...
|
CUT |
T39 |
T13 |
PGA ChampionshipThe PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour...
|
DNP |
CUT |
T19 |
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.
Team appearances
- World Cup (representing England): 2008
The 2008 Omega Mission Hills World Cup took place from November 27 to November 30 at Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China. It was the 54th World Cup. 28 countries competed and each country sent two players. The team purse was $5,500,000 with $1,600,000 going to the winner. The Swedish team of...
- Seve Trophy
The Seve Trophy is a biennial golf tournament between teams of professional male golfers representing Great Britain & Ireland and Continental Europe. It is named after five times major winner Seve Ballesteros, the most successful golfer ever from Continental Europe who was one of the key...
(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2009The 2009 Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros, formally known as the Seve Trophy, was played 24-27 September at Golf de Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche in France. The team captain for Great Britain and Ireland was Paul McGinley, with the captain for Continental Europe being Thomas Bjørn...
(winners)
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