Max Faulkner was presented with his OBE by HRH The Price of Wales during the awards ceremony at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Faulkner was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List, half a century after he won the Open Championship at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. Now 85, Faulkner won a host of professional titles, including three Spanish Opens, and represented Great Britain and Ireland five times in The Ryder Cup.
Faulkner won the only Open Championship to be played outside mainland Britain with a total of 285, nudging Antonio Cerda into second place. In doing so, he ended Bobby Locke's bid for three successive titles, although the South African triumphed again the following year.
