Trevor Immelman Signed Autographed 2008 Augusta National Masters Flag script 08

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Immelman turned professional in 1999. In 2000 he played mainly on the second tier professional tour in Europe, the
Challenge Tour
, and finished tenth on the Order of Merit. He became a full member of the
European Tour
in 2001 and has made the top twenty of the Order of Merit three times. He has four wins on the European Tour, and in 2004 became the first man to successfully defend the
South African Open
title since
Gary Player
in the 1970s.
In 2003 Immelman won the
WGC-World Cup
for South Africa in partnership with
Rory Sabbatini
. In 2005 he was a member of the losing International Team at the
Presidents Cup
. He has been playing with increasing frequency on the
PGA Tour
after receiving a 2-year PGA Tour exemption for 2006 and 2007 on account of this Presidents Cup appearance. In 2006 Immelman won his first PGA Tour event at the
Cialis Western Open
, a result that moved him into the top 15 in the
Official World Golf Rankings
. He won the
Sunshine Tour
Order of Merit in 2002/03.
Immelman withdrew from the 2006
Open Championship
to be present for the birth of his first child. He finished 2006 in the top 10 of the PGA Tour money list and was named
Rookie of the Year
. In September 2007, Trevor Immelman was picked by
Gary Player
to participate in the 7th
Presidents Cup
held at the
Royal Montreal Golf Club
, Canada. The International team lost 14.5 to the US team's 19.5.
[2]
On 13 December 2007, Immelman withdrew from the
South African Airways Open
due to severe discomfort around his ribcage area and a problem breathing. He went into surgery the following Tuesday, 18 December 2007, and doctors discovered a
lesion
approximately the size of a golf ball on his
diaphragm
. (Immelman remarked in an interview on the obvious irony of the size of the lesion).
[3]
It was diagnosed as a calcified
fibrosis
tumor
. After more tests they discovered that it was
benign
. Nevertheless, treatment and recovery caused him to miss the first eight weeks of the
2008 PGA Tour
season. However, Immelman came back to win the
2008 Masters Tournament
. Despite scoring a double bogey on the 70th hole, the par 3 16th, Immelman finished with a score of 8 under par, beating favourite
Tiger Woods
[4]
by three strokes.
In June 2009, Immelman announced he would withdraw from the
U.S. Open
due to
tendonitis
in his left wrist and elbow,
[5]
which plagued him for much of the 2009 and 2010 seasons. As the 2013
PGA Tour
neared its conclusion, Immelman's winless streak extended to five years; he was forced to play in the
Web.com Tour Finals
after he failed to make the
FedEx Cup
playoffs and his five-year exemption for winning the Masters expired. Immelman won the
Hotel Fitness Championship
, the first of four
Web.com Tour Finals
tournaments, and finished the Finals in sixth place to regain his PGA Tour card for 2014.
Since 2017,
Turner Sports
has utilized Immelman as an analyst for coverage of the
PGA Championship
on
TNT
.
2018 saw a resurgence in Immelman's career. Focusing on the European Tour, he made the cut in 8 out of 13 events, with a best finish of T3 at the
Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open
. In the event he had a chance to qualify for The Open Championship via the Open Qualifying Series, but missed an eight foot birdie putt on the last and lost out to
Jens Dantorp
by world rankings. However with the finish, Immelman moved from 1,380th in the world to 420th, his highest ranking since 2014. Immelman finished 77th on the
Race to Dubai
standings, regaining full status for the
2019
season.
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