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Paul Stewart Lawrie (born 1 January 1969) is a Scottish professional golfer who is best known for winning The Open Championship in 1999. He was a vice-captain for the European Ryder Cup team in 2016.
After his major championship victory, Lawrie's game shifted to a higher level without quite moving him into the global elite group of golfers. He finished 9th on the European Tour Order of Merit in 1999; 6th in 2001, when he captured the lucrative Dunhill Links Championship; and 10th in 2002, when he won his fifth European Tour title at the Celtic Manor Resort Wales Open.
In March 2001, the Paul Lawrie Foundation was created. The Foundation aims to support and sustain an interest and enthusiasm for the game of golf amongst under 18s. Activities are delivered in a fun and relaxed setting with equipment provided if necessary. The Foundation has grown rapidly and now includes football and hockey. In 2011, a 54-hole tournament, the Paul Lawrie Invitational was added to the Tartan Tour.
After winning the Open, Lawrie was a member of the PGA Tour for several seasons, while also continuing to compete on the European Tour. He enjoyed little success in the U.S. and when his five-year major championship exemption expired at the end of the 2004 season, he lost his PGA Tour card.
Lawrie was the last European player to win a major until 2007, when that drought was ended by Pádraig Harrington of Ireland in The Open Championship. He was the last player from the United Kingdom to win a major until Graeme McDowell won the 2010 U.S. Open. Lawrie is still the last player from Scotland to win a major.
At the 2009 Open Championship at Turnberry, Lawrie scored what is believed to be only the eighth albatross (double eagle) in the competition's 150-year history by holing his second shot at the par 5 seventh hole in the final round.
On 27 March 2011, Lawrie won the Open de Andalucía de Golf by one stroke over Johan Edfors. Lawrie finished the championship at −12 and in doing so ended a nine-year period without a tour win.
In February 2012, Lawrie won the Commercialbank Qatar Masters for the second time in his career, having previously won in 1999. Lawrie became only the second player to have won the tournament more than once alongside Adam Scott. It was Lawrie's seventh win on the European Tour. The tournament was reduced to 54 holes after strong winds hampered the play during rounds one and two. He won by four strokes over Jason Day and Peter Hanson after a final round of 65.
Lawrie skipped the 2012 U.S. Open in an attempt to qualify for the 2012 Ryder Cup. He secured qualification with victory at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles in August. He has stated that he would accept the captain's role for the 2014 Ryder Cup if offered. Lawrie helped Team Europe retain the Ryder Cup at Medinah. He finished the season in the top 10 of the Order of Merit for the first time in ten years.
Lawrie was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2000 and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for voluntary service to golf.
On 1 October 2020, Lawrie announced that he would be retiring from the European Tour following his 620th career event at the Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open due to back problems and would instead compete on the European Senior Tour moving forward.
Lawrie was a columnist for bunkered golf magazine between 1999 and 2004.
Lawrie has his own golf brand, called Cardinal Golf.
In 2020, Lawrie founded the Tartan Pro Tour, a third-tier UK-based golf tour and feeder to the Challenge Tour that achieved OWGR status in May 2024. The Tartan Pro Tour was created to give players opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic and to eventually replace the shuttered PGA EuroPro Tour in 2022.
| Major championships (1) |
| Other PGA Tour (0) |
| 1 | 18 Jul 1999 | The Open Championship | +6 (73-74-76-67=290) | Playoff | Justin Leonard, Jean van de Velde |
PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)
| 1 | 1999 | The Open Championship | Justin Leonard, Jean van de Velde | Won four-hole aggregate playoff; Lawrie: E (5-4-3-3=15), Leonard: +3 (5-4-4-5=18), van de Velde: +3 (6-4-3-5=18) |
| Major championships (1) |
| Other European Tour (7) |
| 1 | 3 Mar 1996 | Catalan Open | −9 (65-70=135) | 1 stroke | Fernando Roca |
| 2 | 20 Feb 1999 | Qatar Masters | −20 (68-65-67-68=268) | 7 strokes | Søren Kjeldsen, Phillip Price |
| 3 | 18 Jul 1999 | The Open Championship | +6 (73-74-76-67=290) | Playoff | Justin Leonard, Jean van de Velde |
| 4 | 21 Oct 2001 | Dunhill Links Championship | −18 (71-68-63-68=270) | 1 stroke | Ernie Els |
| 5 | 11 Aug 2002 | Celtic Manor Resort Wales Open | −16 (67-65-70-70=272) | 5 strokes | John Bickerton |
| 6 | 27 Mar 2011 | Open de Andalucía de Golf | −12 (66-67-65-70=268) | 1 stroke | Johan Edfors |
| 7 | 5 Feb 2012 | Commercialbank Qatar Masters (2) | −15 (69-67-65=201) | 4 strokes | Jason Day, Peter Hanson |
| 8 | 26 Aug 2012 | Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles | −16 (68-69-67-68=272) | 4 strokes | Brett Rumford |
European Tour playoff record (1–2)
| 1 | 1999 | The Open Championship | Justin Leonard, Jean van de Velde | Won four-hole aggregate playoff; Lawrie: E (5-4-3-3=15), Leonard: +3 (5-4-4-5=18), van de Velde: +3 (6-4-3-5=18) |
| 2 | 2001 | Celtic Manor Resort Wales Open | Daren Lee, Paul McGinley | McGinley won with par on fifth extra hole Lawrie eliminated by par on second hole |
| 3 | 2003 | Dunhill Championship | Mark Foster, Anders Hansen, Trevor Immelman, Doug McGuigan, Bradford Vaughan | Foster won with eagle on second extra hole Hansen and McGuigan eliminated by birdie on first hole |
| 1 | 19 Feb 2017 | Dimension Data Pro-Am | −15 (69-69-69-67=274) | 1 stroke | Justin Hicks, Chris Lloyd, Chris Swanepoel |
Sunshine Tour playoff record (0–1)
| 1 | 2003 | Dunhill Championship | Mark Foster, Anders Hansen, Trevor Immelman, Doug McGuigan, Bradford Vaughan | Foster won with eagle on second extra hole Hansen and McGuigan eliminated by birdie on first hole |
| 1 | 18 Aug 2019 | Scottish Senior Open | −2 (68-72-71=211) | 2 strokes | Peter Baker, Peter Fowler |
| 2 | 19 Jun 2022 | Farmfoods European Legends Links Championship | −11 (64-71-70=205) | 3 strokes | Euan McIntosh |
| 3 | 16 Oct 2022 | Farmfoods European Senior Masters | −17 (71-66-65=202) | Playoff | Michael Jonzon |
European Senior Tour playoff record (1–1)
| 1 | 2022 | Jersey Legends | Richard Green | Lost to par on third extra hole |
| 2 | 2022 | Farmfoods European Senior Masters | Michael Jonzon | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
| Justin Leonard, Jean van de Velde |
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| The Open Championship | T22 | T6 | T24 | T58 | CUT | CUT | 1 | |
| PGA Championship | T34 |
| Masters Tournament | CUT | CUT | CUT | T15 | T37 | |||||
| U.S. Open | CUT | T30 | CUT | CUT | ||||||
| The Open Championship | CUT | T42 | T59 | CUT | CUT | T52 | CUT | CUT | CUT | T47 |
| PGA Championship | T72 | CUT | CUT |
| Masters Tournament | T24 | T38 | |||||||
| U.S. Open | T32 | ||||||||
| The Open Championship | CUT | T66 | T34 | T26 | CUT | T40 | T63 | CUT | |
| PGA Championship | T48 | CUT |
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| U.S. Open | ||||
| The Open Championship | CUT | NT | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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| The Players Championship | T73 | CUT | CUT | T56 | CUT |
| WGC-Championship | T37 | NT1 | T54 | T60 | T58 | ||||||||||||||
| WGC-Match Play | QF | R32 | R64 | R64 | R16 | R64 | |||||||||||||
| WGC-Invitational | T21 | T65 | T50 | T27 | T60 | ||||||||||||||
| Champions | T49 | T36 | |||||||||||||||||
1Cancelled due to 9/11
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.
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