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Els won his first professional tournament in 1991 on the Southern Africa Tour ( today the Sunshine Tour ).
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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.
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.
Els has now won major tournaments in three different decades, joining his countryman Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Billy Casper and other all-time greats.
Ernie Els has had the most success, having won the Desert Classic on three occasions.
:* 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 ).
Els and first
* – British Open – Ernie Els wins his third major and first British Open.
Els birdied the second hole of sudden death to win his first U. S. Open title.
1997 was a career year for Els first winning his second U. S. Open ( once again over Colin Montgomerie ) this time at Congressional Country Club, making him the first foreign player since Alex Smith ( 1906, 1910 ) to win the U. S. Open twice.
Els had a disappointing 2001 season, failing to win a US PGA tour event for the first time since 1994 although he ended the year with nine second place finishes.
Els overcame a four man playoff to take home the famed Claret Jug for the first time, also quieting his critics about his mental toughness.
2003 gave Els his first European Tour Order of Merit.
Els had a poor season in 2011, dropping out of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time since 1993.
Els and Goosen could only manage pars on the first playoff hole, while Grace two-putted the par-five green for birdie and victory.
In 2012, Els failed to qualify for the Masters, the first time since 1993 that he would not play at Augusta.
In 1965, while singing in a radio show called Radioscope, host Salvador Escamilla helped him secure a record deal with local label Edigsa, where he recorded his first LP, as well as joining the group Els Setze Jutges.
At the last event of the year, Toms entered a four-man playoff at The Tour Championship where he, Sergio García and Ernie Els lost out on the first extra hole to Mike Weir.
* 2000: Tiger Woods becomes the first Memorial winner to successfully defend his title and finishes five shots ahead of Ernie Els.
The first small hotels arose in the area surrounding Els banys de la Reina and the Racó Beach, and catered to the emerging middle classes.
Ernie Els plays brilliantly given the conditions to record a 72, and wins after a 4-man playoff, the first in major championship history, involving Steve Elkington, Stuart Appleby and Frenchman Thomas Levet.
Zhang came to global attention at the 2003 Caltex Singapore Masters, where he edged out Ernie Els with a birdie on the final hole to become the first Chinese golfer to win on the European Tour.
Els and professional
Theodore Ernest " Ernie " Els (; born 17 October 1969 ) is a South African professional golfer.
Els Callens ( born 20 August 1970 in Antwerp ) was a professional female tennis player from Belgium.
Els and tournament
Els finished the year with a win at his home tournament at the South African Open.
Els was next in contention at the Transitions Championship, where he needed a win to qualify for the 2012 Masters, led the tournament for most of the final round and had the lead outright until the 16th hole.
In the 2005 Australian Open qualifying tournament she won three matches in straight sets to qualify ; she beat Els Callens, Jaslyn Hewitt and Teryn Ashley in rounds one, two and three respectively.
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