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Barry Lane

For the British general, see Barry Lane (British Army officer).

Barry Douglas Lane (21 June 1960 – 31 December 2022) was an English professional golfer.[2] He won five official European Tour events between 1988 and 2004. He played in the 1993 Ryder Cup and won the inaugural Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf in late 1995. After reaching 50 he had considerable success on the European Senior Tour, winning eight times between 2010 and 2019.

Barry Lane
Lane in 2008
Personal information
Full nameBarry Douglas Lane
Born(1960-06-21)21 June 1960
Hayes, Middlesex, England
Died31 December 2022(2022-12-31) (aged 62)
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight190 lb (86 kg; 14 st)
Sporting nationality England
Career
Turned professional1976
Former tour(s)European Tour
Champions Tour
European Senior Tour
Professional wins20
Highest ranking26 (13 March 1994)[1]
Number of wins by tour
European Tour5
European Senior Tour8 (Tied-7th all-time)
Other7
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentCUT: 1994
PGA ChampionshipT25: 1994
U.S. OpenT16: 1993
The Open Championship13th: 1993

Early life

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Lane was born in Hayes, Middlesex but grew up in Bracknell. He only took up golf at the age of 14 but became an assistant professional at nearby Downshire Golf Club in 1976, at the age of 16. He was an assistant at Downshire for 8 years.[3]

Professional career

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Lane first played on the European Tour in 1982, after three failed attempts at Q-School. From 1982 to 1984 he had little success on the tour, playing only a small number of events, and failed to qualify for the tour in 1985.[2] He did have some success in non-tour events, winning the 1983 PGA Assistants' Championship at Coombe Hill.[4] The win earned him a place in the World Assistants' Championship in Florida in December, which he won by 6 strokes.[5]

Lane qualified for the European Tour again in 1986 and, playing 20 events, finished 71st in the Order of Merit.[2] He improved again in 1987, finishing 27th in the Order of Merit with five top-10 finishes. In October 1987 he also had his biggest prize to date, £20,000, for winning the inaugural Equity & Law Challenge, an unofficial money event on the tour. Lane won the 36-hole event, in which points were gained for birdies and eagles, with a score of 15, one ahead of Bill Malley.[6]

Lane played 26 successive seasons, from 1986 to 2011, on the European Tour.[3] Lane's best years came in the early to mid-nineties, when he made the top ten of the Order of Merit three times, with a best of fifth in 1992. He won four European Tour events between 1988 and 1994. He had a relatively bad period in his later thirties, but after the turn of the millennium his form improved again and he picked up his fifth win on the Tour at the 2004 Daily Telegraph Damovo British Masters.

Lane won several professional tournaments not on the European Tour, most lucratively the 1995 Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf. This event was a precursor of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and Lane's prize was US$1,000,000, which was a rare level of prize in golf at that time.

Lane made his only Ryder Cup appearance in Europe's home defeat at The Belfry in 1993, losing all three of his matches. He represented England in the World Cup and the Alfred Dunhill Cup several times and played for the Rest of the World Team in the UBS Cup three times.

On turning 50 in June 2010, Lane joined the European Senior Tour. He quickly claimed his first win at the Cleveland Golf/Srixon Scottish Senior Open that August. Lane continued his good form in 2011, playing a mixture of regular and senior European Tour events, and winning twice more on the senior tour. Subsequently he enjoyed further wins on the 2012, 2016, 2017 tours and twice on 2019 circuit.

Death

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Lane died of cancer on 31 December 2022, at the age of 62.[7][8][9][10]

Professional wins (20)

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European Tour wins (5)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 9 Jul 1988 Bell's Scottish Open −13 (70-67-66-68=271) 3 strokes   Sandy Lyle,   José Rivero
2 4 Oct 1992 Mercedes German Masters −16 (71-67-66-68=272) 2 strokes   Rodger Davis,   Bernhard Langer,
  Ian Woosnam
3 5 Sep 1993 Canon European Masters −18 (69-67-64-70=270) 1 stroke   Seve Ballesteros,   Miguel Ángel Jiménez
4 13 Mar 1994 Turespaña Open de Baleares −19 (64-70-66-69=269) 2 strokes   Jim Payne
5 9 May 2004 Daily Telegraph Damovo British Masters −16 (70-69-67-66=272) 3 strokes   Ángel Cabrera,   Eduardo Romero

European Tour playoff record (0–3)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 1988 Torras Hostench Barcelona Open   Nick Faldo,   Mark Mouland,
  David Whelan 		Whelan won with par on fourth extra hole
Faldo and Mouland eliminated by birdie on first hole
2 1992 Roma Masters   José María Cañizares Lost to birdie on second extra hole
3 1995 Smurfit European Open   Bernhard Langer Lost to birdie on second extra hole

Other wins (6)

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European Senior Tour wins (8)

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Legend
Tour Championships (2)
Other European Senior Tour (6)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 22 Aug 2010 Cleveland Golf/Srixon Scottish Senior Open −4 (69-71-72=212) 4 strokes   Glenn Ralph,   Jim Rhodes
2 21 Aug 2011 Cleveland Golf/Srixon Scottish Senior Open (2) −14 (67-69-66=202) 2 strokes   Gary Koch
3 18 Sep 2011 Casa Serena Open −15 (67-62-69=198) 2 strokes   Peter Fowler
4 26 Aug 2012 Speedy Services Wales Senior Open −7 (72-67-70=209) 1 stroke   Philip Golding
5 11 Dec 2016 MCB Tour Championship −12 (67-67-68=204) 1 stroke   Paul Broadhurst
6 27 Aug 2017 Willow Senior Golf Classic −22 (67-60-67=194) 5 strokes   Gary Orr
7 1 Jun 2019 Senior Italian Open −8 (69-72-67=208) Playoff   Marc Farry
8 1 Dec 2019 MCB Tour Championship (Madagascar) (2) −3 (70-71-69=210) 1 stroke   Juan Quirós,   Jean-François Remésy

European Senior Tour playoff record (1–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2014 MCB Tour Championship   Paul Wesselingh Lost to par on sixth extra hole
2 2019 Senior Italian Open   Marc Farry Won with birdie on second extra hole

Japan PGA Senior Tour wins (1)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 3 Nov 2018 Fujifilm Senior Championship −10 (67-72-64=203) 2 strokes   Prayad Marksaeng

Results in major championships

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Tournament 1987 1988 1989
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
The Open Championship CUT CUT CUT
PGA Championship
Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Masters Tournament CUT
U.S. Open T16 T47 44 CUT
The Open Championship T17 T51 13 CUT T20 CUT CUT
PGA Championship T71 T25 T63
Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
The Open Championship 29 T50 T14 CUT
PGA Championship
Tournament 2010 2011 2012
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
The Open Championship CUT
PGA Championship
  Did not play

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

Source:[11]

Summary

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Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
U.S. Open 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3
The Open Championship 0 0 0 0 0 4 15 7
PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3
Totals 0 0 0 0 0 6 23 13
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 6 (1991 Open Championship – 1993 PGA)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 0

Results in World Golf Championships

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Tournament 2004
Match Play
Championship T23
Invitational T55
  Did not play

"T" = Tied

Team appearances

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Week 11 1994 Ending 13 Mar 1994" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Barry Lane". European Tour. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Barry Lane biography". Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  4. ^ "It was lucky 13 yesterday for Barry Lane". The Glasgow Herald. 6 August 1983. p. 16.
  5. ^ "Britain's Barry Lane". The Glasgow Herald. 12 December 1983. p. 18.
  6. ^ "£20,000 for Lane". The Glasgow Herald. 14 October 1987. p. 23.
  7. ^ "Barry Lane: 1960 – 2022". European Tour. 1 January 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  8. ^ Carter, Iain (1 January 2023). "Barry Lane: Former Ryder Cup and European Tour golfer dies aged 62". BBC Sport. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  9. ^ "Barry Lane, brilliant Ryder Cup and European Tour golfer who remained an 'everyman' – obituary". The Telegraph. 1 January 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  10. ^ "Barry Lane obituary". The Times. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  11. ^ Brenner, Morgan G. (2009). The Majors of Golf: Complete Results of the Open, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and the Masters, 1860-2008. Vol. 1. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3360-5.
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