Player
Profile :
Five years after
turning professional,
England’s Anthony
Wall garnered his
maiden European Tour
victory by claiming
the 2000 Alfred Dunhill
Championship in Johannesburg
- Wall became the
first winner of the
new millennium on
the European Tour.
Ten year’s later,
Anthony Wall is considered
a perennial contender
on the European Tour.
However, his best
golf has come within
the last year.
In 2006, the Englishman
was runner-up at the
Algarve Open de Portugal
Caixa Geral de Depositos,
The Smurfit Kappa
European Open and
the Alfred Dunhill
Links Championship.
At the oldest golf
event in the world,
on his home soil,
Wall was the leading
British golfer at
the 135th Open Championship
(2006) – he finished
tied in eleventh place.
Wall’s dreams of
success started when
he was a young boy.
Since the age of four,
when Wall’s father
and coach, a retired
taxi driver, placed
clubs in the young
Englishman’s hands,
Wall’s dream was to
become a professional
golfer and to become
a tournament champion.
He has fulfilled his
own prophecies.
He also has represented
England at Boys and
Youths level before
turning professional
and as a 15 year old
junior member at Sunningdale
had the priviledge
of practicing with
the legendary Nick
Faldo.
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