DID YOU KNOW – BRITISH MASTERS SUPORTED BY SKY SPORTS
• The first year the tournament was played was in 1946 and witnessed a tie between Bobby Locke and Jimmy Adams. Both recorded 72 hole totals of 286. It is the only time in the event’s history the championship was shared.
• The 1967 event saw television history made by Tony Jacklin at Royal St George’s. His final round of 64 included a hole-in-one at the par three 16th. It was the first time an ace was witnessed on British television.
• Two months after winning the 1988 Masters Tournament at Augusta National, Sandy Lyle made it a unique double with victory in the British Masters. As a result of claiming the £41,660 first prize, the Scotsman became the first British player to pass £1 million in European Tour Official Career Earnings.
• The final round of the 2000 event saw Roger Chapman and Alastair Forsyth paired together over Woburn’s Dukes Course. Both golfers recorded holes-in-one, Forsyth at the second and Chapman six holes later at the eighth. This represented the last time on The European Tour that two players in the same group both had holes-in-one in the same round.
• This will be the third time the Marquess Course has staged the event, having done so previously in 2001 and 2002. In all this will be the 17th time that Woburn has staged the British Masters. This is the most of any venue.
• Five former British Masters winners in the field this week triumphed at Woburn. They are: Peter Baker (1993), Thomas Levet (2001), Thomas Bjorn (2005), Johan Edfors (2006) and Lee Westwood (2007).
• To highlight the quality of the field, there are five Major Champions, four European Tour Number Ones, two World Number Ones, 86 European Tour winners, 22 Ryder Cup players and 17 players who have won in 2015, winners competing this week.
• To highlight the quality of the winners of the British Masters, there have been 13 different Major Champions who have claimed this crown. They are: Bobby Locke (1946 and 1954), Max Faulkner (1951), Peter Thomson (1961 and 1968), Tony Jacklin (1967 and 1973), Bob Charles (1972), Bernhard Langer (1980), Greg Norman (1981 and 1982), Ian Woosnam (1983 and 1994), Lee Trevino (1985), Seve Ballesteros (1986 and 1991), Sandy Lyle (1988), Sir Nick Faldo (1989) and Justin Rose (2002).
• There are 27 players competing this week who played in the last British Masters to take place over the Marquess' Course in 2002.
