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Ernie Els is 'n professionele gholfspeler van Suid-Afrika met agt-en-sestig oorwinnings agter sy naam.
Sy bynaam is "The Big Easy" as gevolg van sy uiters lang gestalte van ses voet, drie duim en sy vloeiende gholfswaai.
Els is een van nét ses gholfspelers om twee oorwinnings in te palm by die Amerikaanse Ope en die Ope Kampioenskap.
Bo en behalwe daardie vier oorwinnings, het hy eenmaal die echelon gehad van die Wêreld se Nommer Een en hy was aan die bopunt van die 2003 en 2004 European Tour Order of Merit (Europese Toer Orde van Verdienste).
Hy hou ook die wêreldrekord vir oorwinnings by die World Match Play Championship (Wêreld Wedstrydspel Kampioenskap) met sewe.
Els het begin gholf speel op die ouderdom van agt en teen die tyd dat hy veertien was, was hy 'n volkome speler met 'n puik voorgee.
Toe in 1984, het hy die aandag aangegryp van gholf-aanhangers en aansien gekry deur die Junior Wêreldbeker Kampioenskap vir Seuns ouderdomme dertien tot veertien groep te wen; uitgekom net voor Phil Mickelson, wat tweede geëindig het in dieselfde kategorie.
Daarna het hy die Suid-Afrikaanse Amateur Kampioenskap gewen toe hy sewentien was, om die geleentheid se jongste wenner ooit te word.
Hy het professioneel begin speel in 1989. Dieselfde jaar waarin hy die Suid-Afrikaanse Amateur Houespel Kampioenskap gewen het.
Die eerste professionele toernooi wat hy gewen het was die Suider-Afrika Toer, wat hy gewen het in 1991.
Vandag staan die toer bekend as die Sonskyntoer.
Die meeste van Els se tydgenote verkies om die kampioenskappe waarin hulle speel te beperk volgens geografie, maar Els het 'n neiging getoon vir speel in geleenthede in alle dele van die wêreld.
Hy speel gereeld in geleenthede wat goedgekeur is deur die Europese Toer in Australasië, Suid-Afrika en Asië.
Dit het 'n bietjie bitterheid veroorsaak tussen hom en die PGA Toer, wat sou verkies het dat hy meer tyd spandeer aan Amerikaanse toernooie.
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Ernie Els is a professional golfer from South Africa with sixty-eight wins to his name.
His sobriquet is "The Big Easy" because of his extremely tall stature at six feet, three inches and his smooth golf swing.
Els is one of just six golfers to rack up two wins at the U.S.Open and The Open Championship.
In addition to those four wins, he once had the echelon of World Number One, and he was at the top of the 2003 and 2004 European Tour Order of Merit.
He also holds the world record for wins at the World Match Play Championship with seven.
Els commenced playing golf at the age of eight, and by the time he was fourteen, he had become a consummate player with a scratch handicap.
Then in 1984 he grabbed the attention of golf fans and gained prestige by winning the Junior World Golf Championship for the Boys ages thirteen to fourteen bracket, coming out just ahead of Phil Mickelson, who finished in second place in the same category.
Then he won the South African Amateur Championship when he was seventeen to become the event's youngest winner ever.
He went professional in 1989, the same year he won the South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship.
The first professional tournament he won was the Southern Africa Tour, which he won in 1991.
Today the tour is known as the Sunshine Tour.
Most of Els' contemporaries prefer to limit the championships they play in according to geography, but Els has shown a penchant for playing in events in all parts of the world.
He regularly plays in events that have been sanctioned by the European Tour in Australasia, South Africa, and Asia.
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