** Ernie Els, South African golfer

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

** British Open – Todd Hamilton, a virtual unknown, wins at Royal Troon in a playoff over Ernie Els

* – British Open – Ernie Els wins his third major and first British Open.

* U. S. Open – Ernie Els

Theodore Ernest " Ernie " Els (; born 17 October 1969 ) is a South African professional golfer.

2004 was the start of the " Big Five Era ", which is used in describing the era in golf where Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen and Phil Mickelson dominated the game of golf.

At the start of the 2007 season Ernie Els laid out a three-year battle plan to challenge Tiger Woods as world number one.

The Ernie Els and Fancourt Foundation was established in 1999.

Players like Robert Allenby, Raymond Floyd, Tom Watson, Ian Baker-Finch, Ernie Els, Jay Haas, Johnny Miller, and Gary Player have participated.

He remained the leader in career earnings on the European Tour until 2010, when he was surpassed by Ernie Els.

At the 1994 U. S. Open, played at Oakmont Country Club, Montgomerie lost in a three-man playoff to Ernie Els ( a playoff which also included Loren Roberts ).

World-class golfers who have or have had homes on the estate include Sir Nick Faldo, European Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, Sam Torrance, Sandy Lyle, Ernie Els and Thomas Bjørn.

Clients include golfers Lee Westwood, Ernie Els, Darren Clarke, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, and Christina Kim.

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.

At the start of 2006 five of the top 10 players in the Official World Golf Ranking were full members of the European Tour, namely Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Sergio García, Adam Scott and Colin Montgomerie.

Later that year, Hamilton defeated Ernie Els in a four-hole playoff to win The Open Championship at Royal Troon Golf Club.

* July 18-The Open Championship-Todd Hamilton wins at Royal Troon in a playoff over Ernie Els

The company also produces sports related items such as figurines and die-cast on top of having exclusive agreements to produce memorabilia ( under the brand name Upper Deck Authenticated ) with such sports superstars as Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter, Tiger Woods, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Andrew Bynum, Ernie Els, Albert Pujols, Grady Sizemore, Matt Kemp, James Loney, Sandy Koufax and Ken Griffey Jr.

* Ernie Els ( born 1969 ), South African golfer

Ernie Els, golfer ( 1969 – )

With this bogey the lead was down to two strokes from Ernie Els with two holes to play.

Scott shot a final round of 75 to finish at six under, one stroke behind the champion Ernie Els.

Norman would return to the top ranking in 1995 and 1996, then after a single week at No. 1 by Tom Lehman, Tiger Woods dominated the position from 1997 to 2010 with brief interruptions from Ernie Els, David Duval, and then from September 2004 Vijay Singh, who became the twelfth World No. 1 following his win at the PGA Championship.

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.

However, Johnson has a passion for sports according to former Knicks general manager Ernie Grunfeld and desired to own his own team.

Lexie is at first devastated, but as time passes she and her children begin to heal, and she eventually marries the ordinary but reliable " Ernie the Exterminator " and has another child.

As critic Richard Roeper has stated, perhaps one of the strongest indicators of the influence of Sesame Street have been the enduring rumors and urban legends surrounding the show and its characters, especially ones concerning Bert and Ernie.

Oscar has shown rare acts of kindness such as trying to replace Ernie's rubber duckie when Ernie had lost it.

The NBA on TNT ( with studio hosts Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, and Shaquille O ' Neal ) dates back to 1988 and has aired, either by itself or in combination with a similar package on TBS Superstation, ever since.

Ernie has recently received the citation for " The BEST U. S. Route 66 attraction where the ORIGINAL GUY is still there ".

When Ernie finds out that his mother has cancer, he decides to stay put, be a good son, and help her run her shop.

He has been known to play Fender, Ernie Ball, and Warwick basses.

Lead guitarist Ernie C has been responsible for writing the group's music.

Bert's appearance and clothing contrast markedly with Ernie ; he is the taller and thinner of the two, wears a turtleneck under a shirt with vertical stripes ( as opposed to Ernie's horizontal ones ), and has a head that is narrower than it is high.

In addition, Bert has visible eyebrows ( actually a unibrow ), while Ernie does not.

A typical " Bert and Ernie " skit has Ernie coming up with a hare-brained idea and Bert attempting to talk him out of it, ending with Bert completely losing his temper and Ernie remaining oblivious to his own bad idea.

Other sketches have involved Bert and Ernie sharing a snack by division but finding that one of them has a bit more than the other leading Ernie to stupidly decide to make it even by eating the extra piece.

Others involved Bert preparing a snack for himself and goes somewhere before coming back to find that Ernie has eaten it up.

Despite Ernie's attempts to cover up the crime Bert knows Ernie is lying ; for example in one sketch Bert wants to have his chocolate ice cream but when he finds that Ernie has eaten it he charges but then Ernie tries his best to cover up his crime by making a disgusting dish ; Mashed Bananas with Ice Cubes and Gold Beef Gravy at the same time Bert is shouting at him that he knows better.

Only Ernie, however, has hit the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart with his song Rubber Duckie.

Ernie and Bert are rumored to be a couple despite the fact that this has been denied by the producers.

In addition, Ernie has no visible eyebrows, while Bert displays a unibrow.

Ernie has also frequently made appearances without Bert.

Ernie has appeared in both of the Sesame Street movies.