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John Bland
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for atleast five centuries in the British Isles the two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. The Tour Championship is the final event of golf's PGA Tour season. The top 30 money winners on the PGA Tour after the penultimate event qualify for the Championship, which is one of the richest tournaments on the tour.
John Bland was born on 22nd of September 1945 in Johannesburg. He is a South African golfer who has won more than thirty professional tournaments around the world. His Champions Tour victories include the 1995 Ralphs Senior Classic, the 1996 Puerto Rico Senior Tournament of Champions, Bruno's Memorial Classic, Northville Long Island Classic and the Transamerica. His international victories include the 1995 London Masters, the 1997 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, Franklin Templeton Senior South African Open and the 1998 Franklin Templeton Senior South African Open.
In 1995, he has made his Champions Tour debut at the Transamerica and T5 at Silverado and was the fourth player in the Champions Tour history to qualify and win an event. He has earned an immediate one-year exemption when he came from four strokes behind to beat Jim Colbert at Wilshire with a final-round. In 2002, his top performance of the year came at the Allianz Championship, finishing second by one strokes to Bob Gilder. He had the Champions Tour career-best of 8-under 63 at Glen Oaks on Saturday with a hole-in-one that gave him a two-stroke lead after 36 holes. He was tied with Gilder with just three holes to play, but made a bogey at number 17 and finished second.
John Bland is a player who wants him to be counted amongst the top golf-players in the world. He is completely devoted in his play. He has a hunger of achieving victory in each and every competition.
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