He finished 3rd in his maiden Legends Tour event – the Travis Perkins Masters at Woburn back in 2010 but made amends at his very next tournament by winning the Casa Serena Open.
Gary has won two other titles since joining the tour, with both coming in 2012 – the Mallorca Open Senior and the Benahavis Senior Masters.
He is part a group of elite players to have won the R&A’s Amateur Championship twice – in 1991 and 2003. Gary played in six editions of the Walker Cup, winning four of them, and is Great Britain and Ireland’s all-time leading points scorer in the event. In 1995 at Royal Porthcawl he beat a 19-year-old Tiger Woods 1 up in the Saturday singles.
21 amateur victories including the British Mid-Am (1995, 1996 & 1998) and the European Mid-Am (2006 & 2007) are on his CV and Gary was awarded the MBE in 2007 for services to sport, receiving his investiture from the Queen at Buckingham Palace.