Mark McNulty


Mark William McNulty is an Irish/Zimbabwean professional golfer currently playing on the PGA Tour Champions. 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.
McNulty was born in Bindura, Southern Rhodesia. He was raised on a farm in the Centenary area of Zimbabwe. 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.
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. He lives in Sunningdale, England.

Career

After a successful amateur career, McNulty began his professional career on the Southern African Tour and also played on the European Tour starting in 1978. His first professional win was the 1979 Holiday Inns Royal Swazi Sun Open in South Africa. 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 ten on the European Tour's Order of Merit for the first time, placing sixth. He had six top ten 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 sixteen, 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: 1980/81, 1981/82, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1986/87, 1992/93, 1996/97, 1997/98, 2000/01.
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 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.
McNulty lists his interests as piano, fine arts, scuba activities, underwater photography, and shark diving.
McNulty is the Director of the Mark McNulty Junior Golf Foundation, 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.

Amateur wins (2)

European Tour wins (16)

1Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour
European Tour playoff record
No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
11987London Standard Four Stars National Pro-Celebrity Sam TorranceWon with birdie on second extra hole
21990Wang Four Stars Michael Clayton, Rodger Davis,
Bill Malley		Davis won with birdie on seventh extra hole
Malley and McNulty eliminated by par on first hole
31991Volvo German Open Paul BroadhurstWon with par on first extra hole
41993Air France Cannes Open Rodger DavisLost to par on first extra hole

Sunshine Tour wins (33)

1Co-sanctioned by the European Tour

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Asia Golf Circuit wins (1)

Other wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
122 Feb 2004Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am−13 1 stroke Larry Nelson
217 Oct 2004SBC Championship−18 8 strokes Gary McCord
324 Oct 2004Charles Schwab Cup Championship−11 1 stroke Tom Kite
426 Jun 2005Bank of America Championship−12 Playoff Don Pooley, Tom Purtzer
516 Oct 2005Administaff Small Business Classic−16 1 stroke Gil Morgan
619 Aug 2007JELD-WEN Tradition−16 5 strokes David Edwards
731 May 2009Principal Charity Classic−10 Playoff Fred Funk, Nick Price
824 Apr 2011Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf
−27 Playoff Scott Hoch and Kenny Perry

Champions Tour playoff record
No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
12005Bank of America Championship Don Pooley, Tom PurtzerWon with birdie on second extra hole
22009Principal Charity Classic Fred Funk, Nick PriceWon with birdie on fourth extra hole
Price eliminated with birdie on first hole
32009The Senior Open Championship Fred Funk, Loren RobertsRoberts won with par on third extra hole
Funk eliminated with birdie on first hole
42011Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf
 Scott Hoch and Kenny PerryWon with par on second extra hole

Results in major championships

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

Summary

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

Results in World Golf Championships

1Cancelled due to 9/11
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
NT = No tournament

Senior major championships

Wins (1)

Senior results timeline

Results not in chronological order before 2017.
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Team appearances

Amateur
Professional