Mark McNulty

Mark McNulty
Mark McNulty
Personal information
Full name	Mark William McNulty
Nickname	Supermac
Born	24 March 1953 (age 71); Bindura, Southern Rhodesia
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	160 lb (73 kg; 11 st)
Sporting nationality	Rhodesia (until 1978); Zimbabwe (1979–2002); Ireland (2003–)
Spouse	Allison McNulty
Children	2
Career
Turned professional	1977
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour Champions
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour; European Tour; Asia Golf Circuit; Sunshine Tour
Professional wins	59
Highest ranking	6 (18 October 1987)
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	16
Sunshine Tour	33
Challenge Tour	1
PGA Tour Champions	8
Other	3
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	T16: 1988
PGA Championship	T8: 1990
U.S. Open	T17: 1988
The Open Championship	T2: 1990
Achievements and awards
Sunshine Tour; Order of Merit Winner
Sunshine Tour; Order of Merit Winner	1980–81, 1981–82,; 1984–85, 1985–86,; 1986–87, 1992–93,; 1997–98, 2000–01
Champions Tour; Rookie of the Year	2004
Champions Tour; Byron Nelson Award	2005

Mark William McNulty (born 24 March 1953) is a Zimbabwean-Irish professional golfer. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, and featured in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for 83 weeks from 1987 to 1992.^[3]

Early life[edit]

McNulty was born in Bindura, Southern Rhodesia. He was raised on a farm in the Centenary area of Zimbabwe. When McNulty was one year old, his natural father was killed in a shooting accident. His step-father was an amateur pilot who had an airstrip on the farm. When his step-father was diagnosed with epilepsy, he was forced to give up flying. He converted the airstrip into a three-hole golf course, where Mark first learned to play golf.

Amateur career[edit]

McNulty represented Rhodesia at the 1974 Eisenhower Trophy in the Dominican Republic.^[4]

Professional career[edit]

In 1978, McNulty began his professional career on the Southern African Tour and also played on the European Tour. His first professional win was at the Greater Manchester Open on the European Tour in 1979. His first win on the Southern African Tour was at the 1980 Holiday Inns Invitational in Swaziland.^[5]

By 1986, he was a dominant player on the Southern African Tour picking up seven official wins in that year and also winning South Africa's most lucrative event, the Million Dollar Challenge. In the same year, he finished in the top-10 on the European Tour's Order of Merit for the first time, placing sixth. He had six top-10 European Order of Merit finishes in total, including second places in 1987 and 1990. The last of these was in 1996, when he came fifth. His win tally on the European Tour was 16, including the 1996 Volvo Masters, which was the European equivalent of the PGA Tour's Tour Championship. He won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit nine times.

In July 1990, at the 119th Open Championship at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland, with a closing round of 65 (−7), the lowest score of the last round, McNulty finished tied second with Payne Stewart, after winner Nick Faldo.

McNulty represented Zimbabwe seven times at the Alfred Dunhill Cup and eight times at the World Cup. The Zimbabwe team twice finished runner-up to United States, 1993, when McNulty teamed up with Nick Price at the Lake Nona Golf & Country Club in Orlando, Florida, and at the 1994 World Cup of Golf in Puerto Rico, where the team of McNulty and Tony Johnstone finished second and McNulty finished tied 4th in the individual competition.

Senior career[edit]

When McNulty turned fifty and became eligible to play senior golf he chose to take part in the U.S.-based Champions Tour. His first full season in 2004 was highly successful with three wins (including the Charles Schwab Cup Championship) and a seventh-place finish on the money list. In 2007 he won the JELD-WEN Tradition, one of the five major championships on the over-50 tour. It was McNulty's sixth career win on the Champions Tour. His seventh win came in 2009 at the Principal Charity Classic with a playoff win over Nick Price and Fred Funk. In 2011 he won the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf.

Personal life[edit]

In November 1981, McNulty received serious facial and neck injuries when his car in high speed collided with a bus near his parents' farm in Zimbabwe, on his way to the ICL International in Johannesburg, South Africa.^[6] Despite his injuries, McNulty played in the 1981 South African Open the following month and won a tournament in Durban in January 1982, eight weeks after the accident.^[7]

McNulty became an Irish citizen in 2003 at the age of 50. He was eligible to do so because his maternal grandmother was born in Ballymena in Northern Ireland. He stated that his reason for doing so was his concern that as a non-resident Zimbabwean it could take him up to two years to get his passport renewed if he lost it. Commentators elaborated that the farm that his family had been managing for 40-something years had been confiscated by the Mugabe regime.^[6]

He now lives in Sunningdale, England.^[6] He and his wife Allison and they have two children together: Matthew (born 1985) and Catherine (born 1988). McNulty also has two stepchildren and two grandchildren.^[8]

McNulty is the Director of the Mark McNulty Junior Golf Foundation. It is a non-profit organisation whose objective is to use golf as a medium to improve a child's development on and off the golf course while growing the game of golf.^[9]

Amateur wins[edit]

1974 Rhodesia Amateur Championship
1977 South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship

Professional wins (59)[edit]

European Tour wins (16)[edit]

Legend
Tour Championships (1)
Other European Tour (15)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	24 Jun 1979	Greater Manchester Open	−13 (64-66-71-66=267)	5 strokes	Manuel Piñero
2	24 Aug 1980	Braun German Open	−8 (71-70-70-69=280)	1 stroke	Tony Charnley, Neil Coles
3	26 Oct 1986	Portuguese Open	−18 (66-69-69-66=270)	1 stroke	Ian Mosey
4	31 May 1987	London Standard Four Stars National Pro-Celebrity	−15 (70-67-69-67=273)	Playoff	Sam Torrance
5	7 Jun 1987	Dunhill British Masters	−14 (71-65-71-67=274)	1 stroke	Ian Woosnam
6	30 Aug 1987	German Open (2)	−25 (65-66-65-63=259)	3 strokes	Antonio Garrido
7	17 Apr 1988	Cannes Open	−9 (72-71-70-66=279)	3 strokes	Ron Commans, Joey Sindelar
8	8 Jul 1989	Torras Monte Carlo Open	−15 (68-64-64-65=261)	6 strokes	José María Cañizares, Jeff Hawkes
9	16 Apr 1990	Credit Lyonnais Cannes Open (2)	−8 (69-71-69-71=280)	1 stroke	Ronan Rafferty
10	26 Aug 1990	Volvo German Open (3)	−18 (67-68-70-65=270)	3 strokes	Craig Parry
11	25 Aug 1991	Volvo German Open (4)	−15 (68-67-72-66=273)	Playoff	Paul Broadhurst
12	7 Aug 1994	BMW International Open	−14 (70-71-68-65=274)	1 stroke	Seve Ballesteros
13	11 Feb 1996	Dimension Data Pro-Am¹	−6 (69-67-73-73=282)	4 strokes	Brenden Pappas, Nick Price, Ricky Willison
14	28 Jul 1996	Sun Microsystems Dutch Open	−18 (67-65-66-68=266)	1 stroke	Scott Hoch
15	27 Oct 1996	Volvo Masters	−8 (72-69-67-68=276)	7 strokes	José Cóceres, Sam Torrance, Wayne Westner, Lee Westwood
16	28 Jan 2001	Mercedes-Benz South African Open¹	−8 (69-71-69-71=280)	1 stroke	Justin Rose

¹Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour

European Tour playoff record (2–2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1987	London Standard Four Stars National Pro-Celebrity	Sam Torrance	Won with birdie on second extra hole
2	1990	Wang Four Stars	Mike Clayton, Rodger Davis, Bill Malley	Davis won with birdie on seventh extra hole Malley and McNulty eliminated by par on first hole
3	1991	Volvo German Open	Paul Broadhurst	Won with par on first extra hole
4	1993	Air France Cannes Open	Rodger Davis	Lost to par on first extra hole

Asia Golf Circuit wins (1)[edit]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	23 Mar 1980	Malaysian Open	−15 (67-64-67-72=270)	9 strokes	Tsao Chien-teng

Sunshine Tour wins (33)[edit]

Legend
Flagship events (1)
Tour Championships (2)
Other Sunshine Tour (30)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	9 Feb 1980	Holiday Inns Invitational	−14 (72-65-70-67=274)	1 stroke	Tienie Britz
2	10 Jan 1981	Sigma Series 1	−13 (68-70-70-67=275)	2 strokes	Nick Price
3	9 Jan 1982	SISA Classic	−12 (69-69-69-69=276)	4 strokes	Hugh Baiocchi, Allan Henning, Gavan Levenson
4	23 Jan 1982	SAB South African Masters	−13 (68-64-69-74=275)	2 strokes	Denis Watson
5	30 Jan 1982	Sharp Electronics Open	−6 (69-69-70-66=274)	1 stroke	Tienie Britz
6	6 Feb 1982	Sun City Classic	−5 (73-72-70-68=283)	1 stroke	John Bland
7	28 Jan 1984	PAN AM Wild Coast	−4 (68-71-68-69=276)	1 stroke	Harold Henning
8	2 Feb 1985	Swazi Sun Pro-Am (2)	−18 (70-64-67-69=270)	1 stroke	Simon Hobday
9	23 Feb 1985	Palabora Classic	−13 (63-70-67-65=275)	Playoff	Hugh Baiocchi
10	14 Dec 1985	Safmarine South African Masters (2)	−10 (69-71-68-70=278)	4 strokes	Fulton Allem, Frank Edmonds, David Frost
11	1 Feb 1986	Wild Coast Classic (2)	−13 (66-66-71-64=267)	6 strokes	David Frost
12	23 Feb 1986	Barclays Bank Classic	−9 (73-66-71-69=279)	6 strokes	Fulton Allem
13	9 Mar 1986	Swazi Sun Pro-Am (3)	−25 (64-66-68-65=263)	Playoff	Fulton Allem
14	16 Mar 1986	Trustbank Tournament of Champions	−16 (70-68-68-66=272)	6 strokes	Jack Ferenz, Tony Johnstone
15	23 Nov 1986	Helix Wild Coast Classic (3)	−11 (66-74-75-64=279)	2 strokes	John Bland
16	29 Nov 1986	Germiston Centenary Tournament	−18 (64-69-65-68=266)	1 stroke	Fulton Allem
17	13 Dec 1986	Safmarine South African Masters (3)	−18 (70-65-67-68=270)	4 strokes	Fulton Allem
18	7 Feb 1987	Southern Suns South African Open	−10 (74-66-71-67=278)	Playoff	Fulton Allem
19	14 Feb 1987	AECI Charity Classic	−14 (65-70-71-64=270)	Playoff	Wayne Westner
20	22 Feb 1987	Royal Swazi Sun Pro-Am (4)	−29 (68-65-64-62=259)	6 strokes	Wayne Westner
21	28 Feb 1987	Trustbank Tournament of Champions (2)	−17 (68-68-68-67=271)	4 strokes	Gavan Levenson
22	17 Jan 1993	Lexington PGA Championship	−15 (64-69-69-63=265)	1 stroke	John Bland, David Frost, Nick Price, Wayne Westner
23	21 Nov 1993	FNB Players Championship	−15 (69-68-70-66=273)	5 strokes	Roger Wessels
24	11 Feb 1996	Dimension Data Pro-Am¹	−6 (69-67-73-73=282)	4 strokes	Brenden Pappas, Nick Price, Ricky Willison
25	8 Dec 1996	Zimbabwe Open	−18 (72-61-68-69=270)	4 strokes	Justin Hobday, Nick Price
26	19 Jan 1997	San Lameer South African Masters (4)	−12 (71-68-70-67=276)	4 strokes	Adilson da Silva
27	26 Jan 1997	Nashua Wild Coast Sun Challenge	−10 (66-68-70-66=270)	9 strokes	Justin Hobday
28	8 Mar 1998	Vodacom Players Championship (2)	−5 (67-69-68-71=275)	3 strokes	Warren Abery, Scott Dunlap
29	6 Feb 2000	Stenham Swazi Open (5)	−13 (64-74-68-61=267)	2 strokes	Doug McGuigan
30	26 Nov 2000	CABS/Old Mutual Zimbabwe Open (2)	−19 (66-64-70-69=269)	1 stroke	Jean Hugo
31	14 Jan 2001	Nashua Nedtel Cellular Masters (5)	−6 (64-67-70-73=274)	1 stroke	Retief Goosen, Des Terblanche
32	28 Jan 2001	Mercedes-Benz South African Open¹ (2)	−8 (69-71-69-71=280)	1 stroke	Justin Rose
33	8 Dec 2002	Vodacom Players Championship (3)	−16 (70-66-66-70=272)	3 strokes	Scott Dunlap

¹Co-sanctioned by the European Tour

Sunshine Tour playoff record (4–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	1985	Palabora Classic	Hugh Baiocchi	Won with birdie on fifth extra hole
2	1986	Swazi Sun Pro-Am	Fulton Allem	Won with par on first extra hole
3	1987	Southern Suns South African Open	Fulton Allem	Won with par on second extra hole
4	1987	AECI Charity Classic	Wayne Westner	Won with birdie on first extra hole
5	1995	Telkom South African Masters	Scott Dunlap	Lost to birdie on first extra hole

Challenge Tour wins (1)[edit]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	12 Jan 1992	Zimbabwe Open	−16 (72-65-67-68=272)	9 strokes	Tony Johnstone

Other wins (2)[edit]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	7 Dec 1986	Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge	−6 (74-70-70-68=282)	3 strokes	Lanny Wadkins
2	13 Nov 1988	Benson & Hedges Trophy (with Marie-Laure Taya)	−12 (69-68-67-72=276)	1 stroke	Tania Abitbol and José María Cañizares

Champions Tour wins (8)[edit]

Legend
Champions Tour major championships (1)
Tour Championships (1)
Other Champions Tour (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	22 Feb 2004	Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am	−13 (67-65-68=200)	1 stroke	Larry Nelson
2	17 Oct 2004	SBC Championship	−18 (67-63-65=195)	8 strokes	Gary McCord
3	24 Oct 2004	Charles Schwab Cup Championship	−11 (69-74-68-66=277)	1 stroke	Tom Kite
4	26 Jun 2005	Bank of America Championship	−12 (67-69-68=204)	Playoff	Don Pooley, Tom Purtzer
5	16 Oct 2005	Administaff Small Business Classic	−16 (66-68-66=200)	1 stroke	Gil Morgan
6	19 Aug 2007	JELD-WEN Tradition	−16 (66-68-70-68=272)	5 strokes	David Edwards
7	31 May 2009	Principal Charity Classic	−10 (68-69-66=203)	Playoff	Fred Funk, Nick Price
8	24 Apr 2011	Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with David Eger)	−27 (64-64-61=189)	Playoff	Scott Hoch and Kenny Perry

Champions Tour playoff record (3–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2005	Bank of America Championship	Don Pooley, Tom Purtzer	Won with birdie on second extra hole
2	2009	Principal Charity Classic	Fred Funk, Nick Price	Won with birdie on fourth extra hole Price eliminated by birdie on second hole
3	2009	The Senior Open Championship	Fred Funk, Loren Roberts	Roberts won with par on third extra hole Funk eliminated by birdie on first hole
4	2011	Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with David Eger)	Scott Hoch and Kenny Perry	Won with par on second extra hole

Results in major championships[edit]

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Masters Tournament									T16	CUT
U.S. Open		T53	CUT	T50	CUT	CUT	T35	T66	T17	CUT
The Open Championship	T23	T23	T54	T45		CUT	T59	T11	T28	T11
PGA Championship			T54			T70	CUT	WD	T17

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Masters Tournament		T35				CUT		CUT
U.S. Open			T33			CUT		T28
The Open Championship	T2	T64	T28	T14	T11	T40	T14	32	CUT	T37
PGA Championship	T8	T27		CUT	T15		CUT

Tournament	2000	2001	2003
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
The Open Championship	T11	CUT	T53
PGA Championship		CUT

Top 10

Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place.

Summary[edit]

Tournament	2nd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	0	0	0	1	5	2
U.S. Open	0	0	0	1	12	7
The Open Championship	1	1	1	9	22	19
PGA Championship	0	0	1	3	11	6
Totals	1	1	2	14	50	34

Most consecutive cuts made – 9 (1989 Open Championship – 1993 Open Championship)
Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (1990 Open Championship – 1990 PGA)

Results in The Players Championship[edit]

Tournament	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
The Players Championship	T23	T13		CUT	T23		T43

Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships[edit]

Tournament	2001
Match Play	R16
Championship	NT¹
Invitational

¹Cancelled due to 9/11

Top 10

Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
NT = No tournament

Senior major championships[edit]

Wins (1)[edit]

Year	Championship	Winning score	Margin	Runner-up
2007	JELD-WEN Tradition	−16 (66-68-70-68=272)	5 strokes	David Edwards

Senior results timeline[edit]

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2023
The Tradition		8	T46	1	T25	T25	T16	T59	T44	T46	T29				T53
Senior PGA Championship	T7	T6	T19			T17	T34	T38	T28	T48	T9
U.S. Senior Open	T19	T7	T14	T18	3	T36	T48		T42
Senior Players Championship	T9	T11	T41	T31	T52		T28	77	T52	5	T54
Senior British Open Championship	T5	8	T27	T34	T16	T2	T44	T18	T26	CUT	T31	CUT	30	T60	T18	CUT

Win

Top 10

Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Team appearances[edit]

Amateur

Eisenhower Trophy (representing Rhodesia): 1974^[4]

Professional

Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
World Cup (representing Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Presidents Cup (International team): 1994, 1996
Alfred Dunhill Challenge (representing Southern Africa): 1995 (winners)
UBS Cup (representing the Rest of the World): 2004

References[edit]

^ Winter, Grant (6 February 2000). "Supermac's putter burns up the course". Independent Online. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
^ "Week 42 1987 Ending 18 Oct 1987" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
^ 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking
^ ^a ^b "Record Book 1974 World Amateur Team Golf Championships" (PDF). Retrieved 30 November 2020.
^ "Result - Holiday Inns Invitational". sunshinetour.info. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Keogh, Brian (27 November 2003). "Mark McNulty takes Irish citzenship [sic]". Retrieved 21 June 2012.
^ "I Siffror Sett, Syfafrika-touren" [In the Numbers, South African Tour]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 1. February 1982. p. 60.
^ "Mark McNulty – Profile". PGA Tour. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
^ "Mark McNulty Junior Golf Foundation".

External links[edit]

Mark McNulty at the European Tour official site
Mark McNulty at the PGA Tour official site
Mark McNulty at the Sunshine Tour official site
Mark McNulty at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

[1] Winter, Grant (6 February 2000). "Supermac's putter burns up the course". Independent Online. Retrieved 8 October 2023.

[w198742-2] "Week 42 1987 Ending 18 Oct 1987" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 20 December 2018.

[3] 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking

[:0-4] "Record Book 1974 World Amateur Team Golf Championships" (PDF). Retrieved 30 November 2020.

[5] "Result - Holiday Inns Invitational". sunshinetour.info. Retrieved 13 September 2023.

[:1-6] Keogh, Brian (27 November 2003). "Mark McNulty takes Irish citzenship [sic]". Retrieved 21 June 2012.

[7] "I Siffror Sett, Syfafrika-touren" [In the Numbers, South African Tour]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 1. February 1982. p. 60.

[:2-8] "Mark McNulty – Profile". PGA Tour. Retrieved 14 March 2019.

[9] "Mark McNulty Junior Golf Foundation".

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Early life[edit]

Amateur career[edit]

Professional career[edit]

Senior career[edit]

Personal life[edit]

Amateur wins[edit]

Professional wins (59)[edit]

European Tour wins (16)[edit]

Asia Golf Circuit wins (1)[edit]

Sunshine Tour wins (33)[edit]

Challenge Tour wins (1)[edit]

Other wins (2)[edit]

Champions Tour wins (8)[edit]

Results in major championships[edit]

Summary[edit]

Results in The Players Championship[edit]

Results in World Golf Championships[edit]

Senior major championships[edit]

Wins (1)[edit]

Senior results timeline[edit]

Team appearances[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]