"PGA Champion" Ian Poulter Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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"PGA Champion" Ian Poulter Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Ian James Poulter
(born 10 January 1976) is an English
professional golfer
who is a member of the world's top two
professional golf tours
, the U.S.-based
PGA Tour
and the
European Tour
. He has previously been ranked as high as number 5 in the world rankings. The highlights of Poulter's career to date have been his two
World Golf Championship
wins at the
2010 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
and the
2012 WGC-HSBC Champions
. He is the touring professional for
Woburn Golf and Country Club
.
Poulter turned professional in 1996 gaining his first win at the 1999 Open de Côte d'Ivoire on the European Tour's second tier
Challenge Tour
. He won promotion to the European Tour itself via the
qualifying school
later that year. In his first season, he claimed the
Italian Open
title and was the
Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year
for 2000. Further wins followed in each of the next four seasons, most prestigiously the season ending "tour championship" the
Volvo Masters
in 2004. He was in the top ten on the Order of Merit in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2012. In 2013, he finished 2nd on the Order of Merit, his highest placing so far. After narrowly missing a place in the 2002 European
Ryder Cup
team, Poulter was a member of the victorious squad in 2004, where he officially scored the winning points for his team.
[7]
This entitled him to take up membership of the PGA Tour in 2005, and he has divided his time between the two tours since then.
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At the
2008 Masters Tournament
, Poulter made a hole-in-one at the 16th hole at
Augusta National
in the first round. At the
2008 Open Championship
, Poulter had the clubhouse lead on the last round before being beaten by defending champion
Pádraig Harrington
. In the
2008 Ryder Cup
, Poulter was the highest points scorer on either side as he scored 4 of Europe's 11.5 points. Europe lost the Ryder Cup 16.5–11.5. In the 2009
Players Championship
, he finished in sole possession of second place at eight under-par, four shots behind the winner,
Henrik Stenson
. In November 2009, Poulter won the
Barclays Singapore Open
at the Sentosa Club.
[8]
He moved into the top-10 of the
Official World Golf Ranking
in January 2010 with a second-place finish at the
Abu Dhabi Golf Championship
.
In February 2010, he won his first tournament on U.S. soil, beating fellow Englishman
Paul Casey
4&2 in the final of the
WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
in
Arizona
.
[10]
The win moved him to 5th in the world rankings.
[11]
His ranking gained Poulter a place in the
2010 Ryder Cup
in September at
Celtic Manor
in Wales He won 3 points in the 4 matches he played in the European team's win by 14.5 points to 13.5. In November 2010, he won his second title of the year with a one-stroke victory in the
UBS Hong Kong Open
.