Joined the Staysure Tour in 2019, recording four top tens in his rookie season, including a third place at the Farmfoods European Legends Links Championship and a share of fourth at the MCB Tour Championship – Madagascar.

A top amateur, he won two Lytham Trophy titles and the English Amateur Stroke Play Championship twice before turning professional in 1991. Played in the 1991 Walker Cup alongside 2014 Ryder Cup Captain Paul McGinley and 2020 Ryder Cup Captain Padraig Harrington.

Spent 14 seasons on the European Tour from 1992 to 2006, missing the 2005 season due to injury but his undoubted highlight came in The Open Championship at Muirfield where he finished in a tie for fifth place, just one stroke outside the four man play-off, eventually won by Ernie Els. Endeared himself to millions of television viewers around the world with an audacious 50 foot putt for par right across the 17th green before turning to the camera and pronouncing, ‘That one’s for you, Mum!’