PGA Tour (joined 2002) European Tour (joined 2003)
Professional wins
17
Highest ranking
1 (29 May 2011)[4] (56 weeks)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour
5
European Tour
7
Japan Golf Tour
2
Other
4
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament
T3: 2005
PGA Championship
T3: 2006
U.S. Open
T8: 2013
The Open Championship
T5: 2009, 2012
Achievements and awards
Fred Haskins Award
1999
PGA Tour money list winner
2011
PGA Tour Player of the Year
2011
PGA Player of the Year
2011
Byron Nelson Award
2011
Vardon Trophy
2011
European Tour Race to Dubai winner
2011
European Tour Golfer of the Year
2011
European Tour Players' Player of the Year
2011
Luke Campbell Donald MBE (born 7 December 1977) is an English professional golfer and former world number one. He plays mainly on the U.S.-based PGA Tour but is also a member of the European Tour.
Donald had an outstanding year in 2011, winning several tournaments and awards. He won the PGA Tour money list and European Race to Dubai to complete a historic double, becoming the first player to win both money lists on the PGA and European Tours in the same year.[5] He was named the PGA Player of the Year and the European Tour Golfer of the Year. He also became the first Englishman to win the PGA Tour Player of the Year award, the PGA Tour's Vardon Trophy and the Mark H. McCormack Award for the most weeks at number one during a calendar year. He was later awarded honorary life membership of the European Tour for his achievements in 2011.
In May 2011, Donald became the number one golfer in the Official World Golf Ranking after winning the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club. He held the number one position for 40 weeks between May 2011 and March 2012 before Rory McIlroy briefly took over as world number one. The pair then exchanged the number one position a further four times in the following two months. On 27 May 2012, Donald regained the world number one ranking after successfully defending his BMW PGA Championship title. He held the number one position for a further 10 weeks before McIlroy displaced him again. Donald has spent a cumulative total of 56 weeks as the World Number One and has spent over 200 weeks in the top-10.[6] He was awarded an MBE in 2012 for services to golf.[7] Donald has had eight top-10 finishes in major championships, with two third-place finishes. He is one of two golfers to achieve the world number one ranking without winning a major, the other being fellow Englishman Lee Westwood.
Donald captained the European team in the 2023 Ryder Cup side to a 161⁄2-111⁄2 victory over the United States at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club.
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Luke Campbell Donald MBE (born 7 December 1977) is an English professional golfer and former world number one. He plays mainly on the U.S.-based PGA Tour...
COVID-19 pandemic. The team captains were LukeDonald for Europe and Zach Johnson for the United States; Donald replaced Henrik Stenson, who was removed...
2012-03-20. "LukeDonald loses world No 1 ranking to Rory McIlroy". The Daily Telegraph. London. 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2012-04-16. "LukeDonald finishes third...
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spot at the 2018 Masters Tournament. He won by a single stroke over LukeDonald, after a final round of 67 moved him through the field from four strokes...
high-profile field including Tiger Woods, LukeDonald and Lee Westwood. McIlroy played alongside Woods and Donald in the marquee group during the first two...
Westwood and then in May to LukeDonald, who took No. 1 spot by defeating Westwood in a playoff for the BMW PGA Championship. Donald, in becoming the fifteenth...
for 2011". Reuters. December 13, 2011. Retrieved October 27, 2023. "LukeDonald wins PGA award and Vardon Trophy". BBC Sport. October 25, 2011. Retrieved...
captain of the European Team, but was removed from the role in July 2022. LukeDonald was named as replacement 1 August 2022 Deferred due to the COVID-19 pandemic...
(10) Erik Compton Ben Crane (10) Brendon de Jonge Graham DeLaet (12) LukeDonald (9) Harris English (10) Matt Every (10) Rickie Fowler Sergio García (9)...
conclusion of the second round, including Tim Herron, Billy Andrade, LukeDonald and Henrik Stenson. Twenty-four players were within four strokes of the...
Play Championship where he won the title beating Ryder Cup teammate LukeDonald, 2&1, in the final. He had previously beaten the world number one Lee...
Dream'". ESPN. Retrieved August 15, 2011. Shain, Jeff (March 11, 2012). "LukeDonald Named PGA Tour Player of the Year". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March...
one position for a total of 22 weeks. Westwood and fellow countryman LukeDonald share the distinction of reaching the number one world ranking despite...
They have twice placed second in the NCAA Championships: 1939, 1945. LukeDonald won the NCAA Individual Championship in 1999. He was Big Ten Conference...
Florida. He birdied the final hole of regulation play to make a playoff with Luke List. Then on the first extra hole, Thomas made birdie again on the same...
conditions, which was enough to give him the win by one stroke over LukeDonald. The win marked the end of a three and a half-year-long stretch without...
(16,17), Stewart Cink (16,17), Darren Clarke (16,17), John Daly (16), LukeDonald (15,16,17), Carlos Franco, Jay Haas (16,17), Mark Hensby (16,17), Tim...
Play Championship, where he suffered a 6&5 defeat by eventual champion LukeDonald. In the 3rd place playoff match, he defeated fellow American Bubba Watson...
Funk becomes the tournament's oldest champion by edging Tom Lehman, LukeDonald, and Scott Verplank by one shot. During the final round, Bob Tway hits...
Robert Allenby (17,18,19), Ben Crane (17,18,19), Jason Day (16,17,18,19), LukeDonald (16,17,18,19), Rickie Fowler (18,19), Jim Furyk (16,17,18,19), Retief...
Career Summary". PGA Tour. Retrieved October 21, 2014. "Jim Furyk edges LukeDonald to win Tour Championship". BBC Sport. September 27, 2010. Archived from...
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