When not playing, Els has a golf course design business, a charitable foundation which supports golf among underprivileged youngsters in South Africa, and a highly-regarded wine-making business.

Els has often been compared to Greg Norman in the sense that both men ’ s careers could be looked back on and think what could have been.

Els has finished runner-up in six majors and most notably for his runner-up finishes to Tiger Woods.

Els has finished runner-up to Woods more than any other golfer and has often been described as having the right game to finally be the golfer to beat Woods in a major.

On 8 April 2008, Els officially announced that he was switching swing coaches from David Leadbetter ( whom Els had worked with since 1990 ) to Butch Harmon who has revamped the golf swings of many established pros ( which started with Greg Norman ).

This has caused some friction with the PGA Tour, an organization that would prefer Els to play more tournaments in the United States.

Els has also participated several times in the Gary Player Invitational series of charity golf events, to assist Player raise significant funds for underprivileged children around the world.

The couple has also established the Els Center of Excellence, which began as a drive to build a new campus for the aforementioned school but has since mushroomed into a $ 30 million plan to combine the school with a research facility.

Singing in Catalan has received a boost in the 21st due to the success of lots of Catalan indie bands that are springing up in many genres, such as pop ( Antònia Font, Manel, Els Amics de les Arts, Mishima, Sanjosex ), hip-hop ( At Versaris, Guillamino ), and so on.

Van Buitenen and the number two on the list, Els de Groen, who has written about corruption scandals in Eastern Europe, have joined the European Greens – European Free Alliance party group as independent members.

Players such as Ernie Els and Retief Goosen have taken advantage of this to play the PGA and European Tours concurrently and even Tiger Woods, who has sometimes played nine of the necessary eleven events, once suggested that he might enter the extra four required so that he could win the European Order of Merit, although he has yet to do so.

Els van Breda Vriesman, the President of the International Hockey Federation, added: ' The figures speak for themselves, proving not only that hockey has mass appeal on television, but also that the target audience presents a very attractive commercial proposition for potential sponsors and advertisers.

All three of the individual World Golf Championships events will be played in the United States from 2007, which has attracted criticism from some golfers, including Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, and in the media outside the United States.

Ernie Els has had the most success, having won the Desert Classic on three occasions.

Muirfield has hosted The Open Championship fifteen times, most recently in 2002 when Ernie Els lifted the trophy.

Ernie Els finishes a distant second-his third runner-up finish in a major of the season, although Els has taken 23 more shots than Woods at the two Opens.

With eighteen feature films, sixteen of which were produced by his own company Els Films de la Rambla, S. A., founded in 1985, he has become one of the best-known Catalan film directors.

Their twitching friend, Harry ( Jack Douglas ) arrives and lets slip that the package holiday Vic has booked to the Mediterranean island Els Bels ( a pun on the slang expression " Hell's Bells ") also includes Sadie, much to Cora's outrage.

Alcúdia is home to UD Alcúdia who play at Els Arcs, which has a capacity of 1, 750.

Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven () ( born 23 December 1949 in The Hague as Elly Kouwenhoven, and now generally known as Els de Groen ) is a Dutch author and politician, who served as a Member of the European Parliament 2004 – 2009.

The current champion is Ernie Els who won in 2012 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.

Els first achieved prominence in 1984, when he won the Junior World Golf Championship in the Boys 13 – 14 category.

Els won the South African Amateur Championship a few months after his 17th birthday, becoming the youngest-ever winner of that event, breaking the record which had been held by Gary Player.

In 1989 Els won the South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship and turned professional the same year.

Els won his first professional tournament in 1991 on the Southern Africa Tour ( today the Sunshine Tour ).

In 1993 Els won his first tournament outside of South Africa at the Dunlop Phoenix in Japan.

In 1994 Els won his first major championship at the U. S. Open.

The following year, Els defended his World Match Play Championship, defeating Steve Elkington three-and-one, won the Byron Nelson Classic in the United States then headed back home to South Africa and won twice more.

In 1996 Els won his third straight World Match Play Championship over Vijay Singh three-and-one.

Els nearly won the World Match Play Championship for a fourth consecutive year, but lost to Vijay Singh in the final.

Although playing fewer events than his competitors Els won four times and had three runner ups.

To top off the season Els won the World Match Play title for a record tying fifth time.

2004 was another successful year as Els won 6 times on both tours including big wins at Memorial, WGC-American Express Championship and his sixth World Match Play Championship, a new record.

Despite missing several months of the 2005 season due to the injury, Els won the second event on his return, the Dunhill Championship.

On 2 March 2008, Els won the Honda Classic contested at PGA National's Championship Course in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Els then won the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill two weeks later.

In December 2010, Els won the South African Open beating Retief Goosen by one shot.

Els won the 2012 Open Championship, making a birdie on the last hole.

:* April-The Masters Tournament-Vijay Singh won his second major title in six events, playing steady golf to hold off the challenges of Ernie Els and David Duval.

At the first WGC event of the year, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Donald in defence of his title he won in 2011, was eliminated in the opening round by South African Ernie Els who beat him 5 & 4.

Her biggest achievement came during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where she won the bronze medal in doubles, partnering Els Callens.

Nine of the first fourteen editions were won by players who have topped the Official World Golf Rankings at some point in their career ( Faldo, Els and Woods twice each ; Woosnam, Norman and Couples once each ).