Ernie Els has won 75 times worldwide including 28 titles on the DP World Tour, 19 on the PGA Tour, 15 Sunshine Tour trophies and 3 on the PGA Tour Champions.
A former world number one and a global golfer, Ernie Els won the US Open in both 1994 and 1997 before doing a “double” of Claret Jug’s by winning The Open in 2002 at Muirfield and then ten years later in 2012 at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
The tall South African was named the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year 1994, the European Golfer of the Year in 1994, 2002 and 2003 as well as winning the European Order of Merit in 2003 and 2004. The South African spent 758 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings.
Els played eight times in the Presidents Cup from 1996 to 2013 and was the International Team captain in 2019. He represented South Africa five times at the World Cup of Golf from 1992 to 2001 and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2011.
He is a respected golf course designer with the Els Club in Dubai perhaps his most well-known work. Away from golf he is keen on wine making and created the Els for Autism Foundation in 2009 after his son Ben was diagnosed with autism.