Peter Thomson

Peter Thomson was an Australian professional golfer, born in Melbourne on 23 August 1929 and died there on 20 June 2018, often cited as the most successful golfer in Australian history. He turned professional in 1949 and won at least one tournament every year for the next two decades, taking the national opens of ten countries. His five Open Championship victories, in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958 and 1965, include three in a row, a feat no one else achieved in the twentieth century. He later won repeatedly on the Senior PGA Tour in the United States, including a record nine times in 1985, wrote on golf for a Melbourne newspaper for about fifty years and designed more than 180 courses with partners. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1988.