Richard Boxall
Richard Boxall | |
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Personal information | |
Full name | Richard Boxall |
Born | European Tour | 28 April 1961
Professional wins | 2 |
Number of wins by tour | |
European Tour | 1 |
Other | 1 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | T44: 1996 |
Richard Boxall (born 28 April 1961) is an English professional golfer.
Golf career
Boxall turned professional in 1982 and won a place on the
World Cup of Golf
in 1990.
During the third round of The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in 1991, Boxall was just two strokes off the lead when he suffered a stress fracture of his left leg while playing his tee shot on the ninth hole.[1]
Media work
Boxall now works as a golf commentator, mainly on Sky Sports coverage of the European Tour.
He started on the BBC.
Professional wins (2)
European Tour wins (1)
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 20 May 1990 | Lancia Martini Italian Open
|
−21 (65-64-70-68=267) | 5 strokes | José María Olazábal |
European Tour playoff record (0–1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponents | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1990 | Vinho Verde Atlantic Open
|
Stephen Hamill, Stephen McAllister, Ronan Rafferty, Anders Sørensen, David Williams |
McAllister won with par on first extra hole |
Other wins (1)
- 1995 J. P. McManus Pro-Am (shared title with Paul Broadhurst)
Results in major championships
Tournament | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Open Championship | CUT | CUT | T52 | CUT | T52 | CUT | WD | CUT | CUT | CUT | T44 | T48 |
Note: Boxall only played in The Open Championship.
Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
Team appearances
Amateur
- European Youths' Team Championship (representing England): 1982,[2][3]
Professional
References
- ^ "Painful memories for Boxall 17 years on". The Scotsman. 16 July 2008. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
- ^ Nordlund, Anders (September 1982). "Sveriges öde i junior-EM hängde på ett sprinklerlock, Junior-EM, pojkar" [Swedens destiny in the Junior Europeans depended on a sprinkler cover, European Youth's Team Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 7/1982. pp. 50, 65. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- The Glasgow Herald. 3 September 1982. p. 23. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
External links
- Richard Boxall at the European Tour official site
- Richard Boxall at the Official World Golf Ranking official site