Gordon Brand Jnr

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Gordon Brand Jnr
Sir Henry Cotton
Rookie of the Year
1982

Gordon Brand Jnr (19 August 1958 – 31 July 2019) was a Scottish

European Tour, winning eight times, and later the European Senior Tour, winning twice. He played in the 1979 Walker Cup and played twice in the Ryder Cup
, in 1987 and 1989.

Early life and amateur career

Brand was born in Kirkcaldy.[2] His father, Gordon Brand Snr, was the club professional at Knowle Golf Club in Bristol from 1969 to 2001.[3][4] Brand had a successful amateur career and played for Great Britain and Ireland in the 1979 Walker Cup[5] and in the Eisenhower Trophy in 1978 and 1980. He turned professional in July 1981, with a handicap of plus 1, after failing to make the 1981 Walker Cup team.[6][7]

Professional career

Brand quickly achieved success as a professional. He won the

West End South Australian Open.[9] He made the top ten on the European Tour Order of Merit six times, with a best placing of fourth in 1987. He last made the top one hundred on the Order of Merit in the 2000 season, during which he was runner-up to Ian Poulter in the Italian Open
at the age of 42. He continued to play regularly on the tour until 2006.

In the first round of the 1986 Jersey Open he set a European Tour record by making four eagles in a single round.[10][11]

Brand's two

World Cup many times. Playing with Sam Torrance in the 1984 World Cup of Golf in Italy, Scotland finished joint runners-up behind Spain. Brand had the second best individual score.[13] Brand played in the Open Championship 18 times. His best finish was when was tied for 5th place in 1992
, having been tied for second place after two rounds.

After reaching 50, Brand played on the

Matrix Jersey Classic and the 2013 WINSTONgolf Senior Open. His best season was 2010 where he had a win and two runner-up finishes to finish 4th in the Order of Merit. He was twice runner-up in the PGA Seniors Championship, in 2008 and 2011, both at Slaley Hall. In 2008, in his first event as a senior, he tied with English golfer Gordon J. Brand after 72 holes, but lost at the sixth hole of a sudden-death playoff.[14] Gordon J. Brand used his middle initial to distinguish himself from Gordon Brand Jnr.[4]

Death

Brand at the age of 60 died suddenly from a heart attack in an ambulance on the 31 July 2019 near Maidstone Kent following a practice round for the Staysure PGA Senior Championship.[10][15][16][17]

Amateur wins

Professional wins (11)

European Tour wins (8)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 27 Jun 1982
Coral Classic
 −15 (69-70-66-68=273) 3 strokes Australia Greg Norman
2 26 Sep 1982 Bob Hope British Classic −16 (65-73-65-69=272) 3 strokes England Mark James
3 12 Aug 1984 Celtic International −8 (67-67-68-70=272) 3 strokes Australia Ian Baker-Finch, Argentina Vicente Fernández,
Scotland Sandy Lyle
4 9 Sep 1984
Panasonic European Open
 −10 (67-66-73-64=270) 3 strokes Spain Seve Ballesteros, Australia Noel Ratcliffe
5 26 Jul 1987
KLM Dutch Open
 −16 (69-67-67-69=272) 1 stroke England David A. Russell
6 2 Aug 1987 Scandinavian Enterprise Open −11 (64-71-71-71=277) Playoff
Magnus Persson
7 13 Aug 1989 Benson & Hedges International Open −12 (64-72-72-64=272) 1 stroke England Derrick Cooper
8 12 Sep 1993
GA European Open
(2) 		−13 (65-68-71-71=275) 7 strokes Wales Phillip Price, Northern Ireland Ronan Rafferty

European Tour playoff record (1–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 1987 Scandinavian Enterprise Open
Magnus Persson
 Won with birdie on first extra hole
2 1992
Heineken Dutch Open
 Germany Bernhard Langer Lost to par on second extra hole

PGA Tour of Australia wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runners-up
1 12 Nov 1988
West End South Australian Open
 −13 (64-69-69-65=267) 7 strokes Australia Greg Alexander, Australia Wayne Grady

European Senior Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runners-up
1 6 Jun 2010
Matrix Jersey Classic
 −15 (63-66-72=201) 5 strokes South Africa Bobby Lincoln, England Carl Mason
2 8 Sep 2013 WINSTONgolf Senior Open −12 (68-68-68=204) 1 stroke Paraguay Ángel Franco, Scotland Andrew Oldcorn,
England David J. Russell

European Senior Tour playoff record (0–2)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2008
De Vere Collection PGA Seniors Championship
 England Gordon J. Brand Lost to par on sixth extra hole
2 2009 Benahavis Senior Masters England Carl Mason Lost to birdie on second extra hole

Results in major championships

Tournament 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
U.S. Open
The Open Championship CUT CUT CUT T47 CUT T26 T20 CUT
Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
U.S. Open T39
The Open Championship CUT T32 T5 CUT T60 CUT CUT 14 T68 T62
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Note: Brand never played in the Masters Tournament or the PGA Championship.

Results in senior major championships

Tournament 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Senior PGA Championship CUT CUT CUT
Senior British Open Championship
 T32 T41 T12 CUT CUT CUT T51 CUT CUT
  Did not play

"T" indicates a tie for a place
CUT = missed the halfway cut
Note: Brand only played in the

Senior British Open Championship
.

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

See also

References

  1. OWGR
    . Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Gordon Brand Junior Holds Andrew Oldcorn at Bay To Win". Scottish Golf View. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Gordon Brand Senior (1936-2017)". PGA. 6 February 2018.
  4. ^ a b Bonk, Thomas (17 July 1988). "Golf: Fans Foul Up When Names Are the Same". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Walker Cup – 1979 – HCEG, Muirfield". Walker Cup. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  6. ^ "Gordon Brand Junior – Bio". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  7. Glasgow Herald
    . 29 July 1981. p. 15.
  8. ^ "Colin Jackson's "Raise Your Game": Gordon Brand Junior". BBC. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  9. ^ Dempster, Martin (1 August 2019). "Former Ryder Cup player Gordon Brand Jnr dies aged 60". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  10. ^ a b "Gordon Brand Jnr 1958–2019". European Tour. 1 August 2019.
  11. Glasgow Herald
    . 13 June 1986. p. 30.
  12. ^ "PGA – Gordon Brand Jr". PGA. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  13. Glasgow Herald
    . 19 November 1984. p. 20.
  14. ^ "Gordon J wins battle of Brands after six-hole play-off". Scottish Golf View. 24 August 2008.
  15. ^ McEwan, Michael (1 August 2019). "Former Ryder Cup star Brand Jnr passes away". bunkered. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  16. ^ Huggan, John (1 August 2019). "Gordon Brand Jr., a Scot who played on two European Ryder Cup teams, has died". Golf Digest.
  17. ^ Davison, Phil (16 August 2019). "Gordon Brand Jr: Ryder Cup winner who broke American golfing hearts". The Independent.

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