Became the first former European Tour Order of Merit winner to repeat the feat on the Senior Tour when he lifted the John Jacobs Trophy in 2008 after a dream rookie season in which he won the Parkridge Polish Seniors Championship in his third event followed by the Russian Seniors Open. Returned to winning ways with superb final round 66 to triumph in the Berenberg Bank Masters in 2011, his fourth Senior Tour title and first victory in two years. Captained Europe to a record-equalling 18 ½ - 9 ½ victory in The Ryder Cup at The K Club in Ireland in 2006, as the Team won all five sessions for the first time in the biennial contest and secured an unprecedented third consecutive victory. Received the OBE in the New Year's Honours List in recognition of the feat. Played in eight Ryder Cups, and in 1993 he became the first European to claim the maximum four points from the two foursomes and two fourball matches, a feat matched by Sergio Garcia in 2006. Having twice topped The European Tour Order of Merit in 1987 and 1990, joined the greats of the game when he won the Masters Tournament in 1991. Both parents are Welsh and he learned the game on the local Llanmynech course (15 holes in Wales, three in England) on the border. Worked on family farm for six months after leaving school. Credits his stocky but powerful physique to lifting heavy hay bales. A rival of Sandy Lyle in Shropshire County golf. Used to travel in a camper van and eat tins of beans to save money when an aspiring Tour star.