Mike Weir
Mike Weir was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada on May 12th, 1970 and is the Golfer. At the age of 53, Mike Weir biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Michael Richard Weir (born May 12, 1970) is a Canadian professional golfer who competes on the PGA Tour.
Between 2001 and 2005, he spent more than 110 weeks in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings.
He plays golf left-handed and is best known for winning the Masters in 2003, making him the youngest Canadian man to ever win a major.
Early years
Weir grew up in Sarnia, Ontario, in the Sarnia suburb of Brights Grove. He learned to play golf at Huron Oaks Golf Course and was coached by Steve Bennett. Like many Canadian boys, his first sport was hockey; he was a natural left-handed shooter, and he began playing golf left-handed as a follow-on to his hockey exploits. Weir was lucky in that his godfather's son played left-handed and had a partial set of spare clubs that he gave to Weir—three woods and four irons. He acquired a left-handed wedge from his income as a caddy and pro shop employee, which he used until the grip was worn out. He was a champion in a junior tournament in which the first prize was a complete set of irons; he refurbished his original four irons with the clubs he had defeated when he was 12 years old; Jack Nicklaus was also visiting Huron Oaks at age 11, when the golf legend came to the club to play an exhibition. This meeting set the tone for a pivotal moment in Weir's career.
Weir quit hockey in his early teens because he knew he would not grow beyond average height and that golf was his favorite sport. Nonetheless, he had been warned that if he switched to playing right-handed, he might be a much better golfer. Weir decided to write Nicklaus for assistance in deciding whether or not to make the switch in 1984. "If you are a good player left-handed, don't change anything," Nicklaus told Weir, "especially if it feels natural to you."
He never thought about switching to right-handed play again, and he still has the letter, which is now framed in his house, but still has it.
He attended St. Michael Elementary School in Brights Grove and St. Clair Secondary School in Sarnia, winning the Ontario Junior Championship in 1988. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University (majoring in Recreation Management) and has competed in the Ontario Amateur Championships in 1990 and 1992. He came in second place at the 1991 Canadian Amateur Championships, finishing second in the 1992 tournament. In 1992, he was an All-American pick at BYU's Second Team.
Personal life, honours
Weir and his two children now live in Sandy, Utah.
Weir was elected as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2007 and later invested on November 5, 2009. In 2003, he was appointed to the Order of Ontario.
Creekside Estate Winery, near Lincoln, Ontario, began producing wine for Weir in 2005 and has since released a Merlot, Chardonnay, Sauvignon blanc, Cabernet-Merlot, Cabernet-Shiraz, and Icewine. Travel + Leisure Golf magazine named Icewine Vidal as one of its top five golf-related wines. In the summer of 2008, Weir announced plans to open his own winery.
The Thomson Corporation, now Thomson Reuters, reported on December 17, 2007 that it would be Weir's lead corporate sponsor, replacing Bell Canada, beginning in January 2008.
Brennan Little, a fellow Ontarian, was Weir's caddy from 1999 to 2010. Pete Bender, a veteran caddy, was recruited by Weir in January 2011.
Weir was ranked #2 on a list of Canada's Top Athletes of All Time in 2010.
Named after him, a street in Draper, Utah, has been named after him.
According to a note he shared on Friday, July 17, 2015, Weir pulled out of the RBC Cane Open Golf Course and took an indefinite leave of absence from golf competition. He referred to it as a "very difficult" decision to withdraw from his country's national service. This would have been Weir's 25th appearance in the competition.
For the 2017 Presidents Cup campaign and to Ernie Els for the 2019 Presidents Cup, Weir was named as a captain's assistant to Nick Price.
Weir was inducted into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2017.
Professional career
Weir turned professional in 1992 and joined the Canadian Professional Golf Tour, where he has won three tournaments. He also appeared on the Asian PGA Tour early in his career. He first appeared on the PGA Tour in 1998 but then lost his playing rights as a result of insufficient results. He had to requalify, and he did so by being a champion at the final Qualifying School tournament.
At the 1999 Air Canada Championship in Surrey, British Columbia, Weir's first PGA Tour victory came. With his victory, he became the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event in 45 years. At the 1999 PGA Championships, he shared the lead with Tiger Woods but finished T-10. In 2001, he won The Tour Championship in a playoff.
Weir started the 2003 season in awesome fashion, winning two tournaments on the West Coast Swing. He won the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in Palm Springs, California, and later won the Nissan Open in Riviera Country Club near Los Angeles.
Weir won the 2003 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, one of the four major championships in the United States, in April. He is the first male to win a major championship in Canada. Weir was the second left-handed golfer to win any of the four major tournaments since winning the British Open forty years ago (Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson have since won majors as left-handed golfers). Weir is a right-handed golfer who plays golf left-handed, a characteristic he shares with fellow PGA Tour pro and major champion Mickelson.
Weir finished third at the U.S. Open in June, the second in the majors, putting him second in the Official World Golf Ranking, his highest ranking. Weir was named the Lou Marsh Trophy for outstanding Canadian athlete of the year for his outstanding appearance in 2003. He remained in the top ten rankings in the world's top ten rankings into 2004.
Weir was among a select few players, including Ben Hogan, to win consecutive titles at the Nissan Open in February 2004, his sixth player in the Nissan Open's history to win back-to-back titles, and the first since Corey Pavin (1994, 1995). He was the 20th player to win multiple times at the Nissan Open.
Weir was more than three and a half years since his second victory at the Nissan Open before winning his first on tour. Several good results (two top tens, as well as a tie for eighth at the Open Championship) were shared by Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer on a new swing. He had dropped to a point where he did not automatically qualify for the Presidents Cup tournaments in 2007, which were held at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, when working on the swing shifts. He did not have to participate in the tournament that he helped bring to Canada because he was selected by International team captain Gary Player as one of his discretionary picks. Despite his team losing the Cup, Weir went on to defeat current number one Tiger Woods in a tense match. "When I look back on my work, this could be even more special than winning the Masters," Weir threwlebically said. His swing changes, as well as the excitement from his Presidents Cup win, culminated in his first victory in over three years at the Fry's Electronics Open in October 2007. With eight wins in Arizona, Weir and George Knudson tied for the most PGA Tour victories by a Canadian.
Weir had returned to work with instructor Mike Wilson, who was his mentor during his most fruitful period in the early 2000s, according to the Golf Digest magazine in March 2010. As Wilson demonstrated, Weir was moving away from the'stack-and-tilt' technique and focusing on reclaiming his swing. In October 2010, Weir said he was planning to rely less on swing coach Mike Wilson because he thought he did not need a tutor but a set of eyes, whether it's Mike or someone else. When I make a swing, I'm getting a hold of what I'm trying to do. I don't want to tell me what to do, and I don't want to tell me what to do. I know what I need to do, added Weir. Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer, the'stack and tilt' designers, were rehired in July 2011.
Weir's 2010 season came to an end early with a torn ligament injury in his right elbow. He began earning on a major medical exemption in 2011, which means he would have to pay the difference between his 2010 income and $786,977 (equivalent to Troy Merritt, who finished with the 125th and final exempt spot on the Tour) in five of the Tour's five main Tour countries. If anything else, he might qualify for one of two special exemptions he holds for work-based income to participate in the 2011 PGA Tour, but he would not attempt to do so. Weir had trouble making cuts and didn't finish high enough to keep our Tour in the prestigious list of the lowest in the PGA Tour exemption priority rankings.
Weir started his 2012 season at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am after suffering from elbow surgery. After winning the Masters in 2003, Weir did not have full status on the PGA Tour, he activated his European Tour membership for 2012. He missed the cut at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, finishing at +6. Following Pebble Beach, he missed his next two cuts on the PGA Tour, but he was on the European Tour in the Open de Andalucia over the weekend. To regain his PGA Tour playing rights for 2013, Weir used a special exemption for the top 25 on the career PGA Tour money list.
Weir had his first victory in seven years at the Byron Nelson Championship, but fell two strokes behind Brendon Todd for his first top ten since 2010. Weir's best result since his last victory in 2007. The result lifted Weir over 350 places in the world rankings, putting the company ahead of 238th. Despite the fact that Weir missed the FedEx Cup playoffs, he finished outside the top 125 on the money list, making him exempt for the 2014–15 season.
Weir was a writer on-course for the 2016 PGA Championship as an on-course reporter for the TNT broadcast team.
In 2019, Weir confirmed that he would complete the Web.com Tour, relying on an exemption for veteran PGA Tour members aged 48 and 49 either as part of a final bid to regain a PGA Tour card or in preparation for PGA Tour Champions.
Weir turned 50 in May 2020 and became PGA Tour Champions.
Weir won his first tournament on the PGA Tour Champions in May 2021. Weir won the Insperity Invitational in Woodlands, Texas. Apart from the five man 2010 Telus Skins Game, this was his first international victory since 2007.
PGA Tour career summary
Here are the 2019 seasons' highlights.