Australia's Geoff Ogilvy is making his second Presidents Cup appearance.
Oct. 1, 2009
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With two World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championships to his credit, the 2006 U.S. Open champion is a player to be reckoned with at Harding Park. To get a sense of Geoff's Ogilvy's competitive spirit, you only have to know that he is a passionate follower of Australian Rules Football which, to the casual observer, looks like organized mayhem in short pants. As a youngster growing up in sports-mad Australia, Ogilvy was introduced to golf at an early age but was so skilled at other sports that he didn't narrow his focus until he was 17. After all, there were too many other sports at both the local and national levels where he could win medals, which is just what he did. He won the 2008 Australian Open but by then he had established himself on the PGA TOUR, where he had six victories coming into The Presidents Cup, including the 2006 U.S. Open. It cannot be good news for the American side that two of those victories came at this year's season-opening, select-field Mercedes-Benz Championship and the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship for the second time. He brings a 2-3-0 overall record to this year's Matches, his second appearance.
| The Ogilvy file |
| FULL NAME: Geoff Charles Ogilvy |
| HEIGHT: 6-2 |
| WEIGHT: 180 |
| BIRTHDATE: June 11, 1977 |
| BIRTHPLACE: Adelaide, South Australia |
| RESIDENCE: Melbourne, Australia; Scottsdale, Ariz. |
| FAMILY: Wife, Juli; Phoebe Elizabeth (10/10/06), Jasper Michael (1/7/08) |
| SPECIAL INTERESTS: Australian Rules Football, reading, movies |
| TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1998 |
| Q SCHOOL: 2000 |
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| Personal info |
| Ogilvy is a founding owner of MOJO Pies, The Original Australian Pie, located in Scottsdale, Ariz., and is a proud supporter of the St Kilda Football Club. As an amateur, his victories included the 1995 Portsea Open Amateur, the 1996 German Amateur Open Championship and the 1997 Lake Macquarie Amateur. He admires Lance Armstrong for his ability to overcome adversity and would love to compete in the Tour de France or Olympic 100-meter final. His favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron, and his favorite band is Led Zeppelin. |
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| Playing record |
| PGA TOUR VICTORIES: (6) 2005 Chrysler Classic of Tucson. 2006 World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship, U.S. Open. 2008 World Golf Championships-CA Championship. 2009 Mercedes-Benz Championship, World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship. |
| 2009 PGA TOUR HIGHLIGHTS: Geoff Ogilvy rallied from a poor final-round start to win the Mercedes-Benz Championship by six strokes, finishing at 24-under 268. He became the eighth consecutive international player to win at Kapalua. No other PGA TOUR event has gone that long without a winner from the United States. He became the first multiple winner of the season when he defeated fellow Scottsdale resident Paul Casey, 4 and 3, to win the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship for the second time, joining Tiger Woods as the only multiple winners of the event. He is the only Australian to ever reach the final, a feat he has achieved three times in four years. He tied for sixth place at the Shell Houston Open. |
| NATIONAL TEAMS: The Presidents Cup (2), 2007, 2009 |
| PRESIDENTS CUP RECORD: 2-3-0 |
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| All-time playing partners |
| Nick O'Hern (2 Four-ball, 1 Foursomes) |
| Adam Scott (1 Foursomes) |
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