 Mark O'Meara has won sixteen events on the PGA Tour, starting with the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1984, but he passed his fortieth birthday without winning a major championship.
In a late finale to his PGA Tour winning career, which many attributed partly to the inspiration of working with Tiger Woods, the new superstar of the game at the time, with whom O'Meara had become good friends, O'Meara won two majors in 1998, namely The Masters and the British Open. In the same year he won the World Matchplay Championship.
O'Meara is known for competing outside the United States more ofter than most leading American golfers, and has won tournaments in Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.
A man with a genial demeanour, he is one of the most popular figures in international golf. In the new Millenium his form took a downturn and he began to struggle with injuries, but in 2004 he won an official tour event for the first time since 1998, taking the Dubai Desert Classic title, which despite being played in Asia is a PGA European Tour event.
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