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Ian Stanley (golfer)

Australian professional golfer

Summary

Australian professional golfer

Field	Value
name	Ian Stanley
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fullname	Ian Stanley
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birth_place	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
death_date
height
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nationality
yearpro	1970
retired
extour	PGA Tour of Australasia
European Tour
European Seniors Tour
prowins	30
eurowins	1
auswins	8
seneurowins	3
champwins	1
otherwins	23
majorwins
masters	DNP
usopen	DNP
open	T30: 1986
pga	DNP
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award1	European Seniors Tour
Order of Merit winner
year1	2001
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European Tour European Seniors Tour Order of Merit winner](european-seniors-tour-order-of-merit-winners) Ian Stanley (14 November 1948 – 29 July 2018) was an Australian professional golfer.

Early life

Stanley was born in Melbourne, Victoria. At the age of 14, he started playing at the old Amstel Golf Club which backed onto his parents' home in Ian Grove, Mount Waverley. In 1966, he won both the Club Championship and Junior Championship and, later in the same year, won the Victorian School Boys at Huntingdale Golf Club.

As Amstel was moving to a new site in Cranbourne, Stanley was asked to join Huntingdale. He honed his game under the apprenticeship of club professional Geoff Flanagan. In 1967, he won the Victorian Junior Championship at Huntingdale and in 1969, he went on to win both the Junior and Senior Club Championships (also played at Huntingdale). He followed this up with his second Victorian Junior Championship win all in the same year.

Professional career

In 1970, Stanley served a three-year apprenticeship under the guidance of Geoff Flanagan. Stanley was a prolific tournament winner in Australasia from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s. He also spent seven years on the European Tour in the 1970s, where he was joint winner of the 1975 Martini International with Christy O'Connor Jnr, and finished inside the top-60 on the Order of Merit six times with a best end of season ranking of 27th in 1975.

From 1977 to 1978, Stanley worked with David Inglis in establishing the Australian Masters and obtaining sponsorships for the first tournament in 1979.

After the tragic accident which injured Jack Newton in July 1983, Stanley, with other businessmen, set up the Jack Newton Trust. Stanley travelled around Australia raising money through exhibitions and guest speaking engagements. This concluded with a sell-out sportsmen's night held at the Southern Cross Hotel in September 1983. In 1983, Stanley was approached by the PGA to take Newton's position on the board where Stanley tried to establish an Accident & Sickness policy for each player; this was voted down in the 1986 PGA annual meeting.

In the early 1990s, Stanley joined Australia's first pay TV sports channel, Premier Sports, commentating on European and American tournaments. This led to the highly rated Golf Show which is still successfully running on Fox Sports today.

After turning 50, Stanley joined the European Seniors Tour, and in 2001 he won the PGA Seniors Championship, then the Senior British Open on his way to topping the Order of Merit. In total, he has three wins on the European Seniors Tour.

On retiring from the Senior tour in 2004, Stanley joined golf design and architect firm Thomson Perrett, where his principal design stage was golf greens. Stanley also project managed courses in Australia and China. The main golf courses in Australia included Ballarat Golf Club, Sandhurst Golf Club, Silverwoods at Yarawonga, Mandalay Golf Club and Manly Golf Club, Sydney (greens and bunker designs).

Personal life

Stanley was a director of not-for-profit organisation Tee Up for Kids, which raises money for underprivileged children in Victoria.

Stanley married his wife, Pam, in 1971. They had three daughters. Stanley died from cancer on 29 July 2018.

Amateur wins

1966 Victorian Schoolboys' Champion
1967 Victorian Junior Champion
1969 Victorian Junior Champion

Professional wins (30)

European Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of
victory	Runner-up
1	14 Jun 1975	Martini International	−5 (71-72-69-67=279)	Shared title with IRL Christy O'Connor Jnr

PGA Tour of Australia wins (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of
victory	Runner(s)-up
1	28 Sep 1975	Queensland Open	+1 (74-71-70-66=281)	4 strokes	AUS Mike Ferguson
2	14 Oct 1979	Garden State Victorian PGA Championship	−2 (71-70-73-72=286)	Playoff	AUS Stewart Ginn
3	1 Feb 1981	Traralgon Classic	−9 (72-68-68-71=279)	3 strokes	AUS Garry Merrick
4	31 Oct 1982	Westpac Classic	−7 (69-67-77-72=285)	3 strokes	AUS Stewart Ginn
5	19 May 1985	National Panasonic Western Australian Open	−12 (63-72-75-66=276)	1 stroke	AUS Paul Foley
6	20 Oct 1985	National Panasonic New South Wales Open	−3 (68-67-73-73=281)	1 stroke	AUS Peter Senior, AUS Lyndsay Stephen
7	18 Dec 1988	Nissan-Mobil New Zealand Open	−11 (64-68-69-72=273)	3 strokes	AUS Mike Clayton
8	22 Oct 1989	Tattersall's Tasmanian Open	−1 (68-69-73-69=279)	Playoff	AUS Peter O'Malley

PGA Tour of Australia playoff record (2–3)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1974	Australian PGA Championship	AUS Bill Dunk	Lost 18 hole playoff;
Dunk: −1 (71),
Stanley: E (72)
2	1976	Tasmanian Open	AUS Stewart Ginn, AUS David Good,
AUS Brian Jones	Good won with birdie on fifth extra hole
Ginn and Stanley eliminated by par on first hole
3	1978	Griffith Golf Classic	AUS Randall Vines	Lost to par on fifth extra hole
4	1979	Garden State Victorian PGA Championship	AUS Stewart Ginn	Won with par on second extra hole
5	1989	Tattersall's Tasmanian Open	AUS Peter O'Malley	Won with birdie on first extra hole

Source:

Other Australasian wins (11)

1980 Wembley Classic, Geraldton Classic
1983 Hume Classic, Murray River Classic
1984 Murray River Classic, South Australian PGA Championship
1985 Geraldton Classic
1986 Murray River Classic
1987 South West Open
1992 Norfolk Island Classic, Victorian Open (non-tour event)

Other wins (5)

1975 New Britain Open (Papua New Guinea)
1976 South Seas Classic
1986 Fiji Open
1988 Fijian Hotel Classic
1990 Fijian Hotel Classic

Senior PGA Tour wins (1)

Legend
Senior major championships (1)
Other Senior PGA Tour (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of
victory	Runner-up
1	29 Jul 2001	Senior British Open	−6 (70-69-70-69=278)	Playoff	NZL Bob Charles

Senior PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2001	Senior British Open	NZL Bob Charles	Won with par on first extra hole

European Seniors Tour wins (3)

Legend
Senior major championships (1)
Other European Seniors Tour (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of
victory	Runner(s)-up
1	2 Jul 2000	Coca-Cola Kaiser Karl European Trophy	−13 (66-69-68=203)	4 strokes	ENG Denis Durnian, JPN Seiji Ebihara
2	3 Jun 2001	De Vere PGA Seniors Championship	−10 (71-66-68-73=278)	2 strokes	ENG Maurice Bembridge
3	29 Jul 2001	Senior British Open	−6 (70-69-70-69=278)	Playoff	NZL Bob Charles

European Seniors Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2001	Senior British Open	NZL Bob Charles	Won with par on first extra hole

Other senior wins (2)

1998 Australian PGA Seniors Championship, Ipswich Senior Classic

Results in major championships

Tournament	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
The Open Championship	CUT	CUT	T56	46	CUT	CUT	CUT

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
The Open Championship			CUT				T30

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
The Open Championship

Tournament	2000	2001	2002
The Open Championship			CUT

Note: Stanley only played in The Open Championship.

CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1973, 1976 and 1977 Open Championships)

"T" = tied

Senior major championships

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Winning score	Margin	Runner-up
2001	Senior British Open	−6 (70-69-70-69=278)	Playoff1	NZL Bob Charles

1Defeated Charles with a par at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.

Team appearances

World Cup (representing Australia): 1974, 1975
UBS Warburg Cup (representing the Rest of the World): 2001

References

Alliss, Peter. (1983). "The Who's Who of Golf". Orbis Publishing.
Callander, Colin. (12 November 2001). "European Seniors Tour: Stanley takes title on merit". [[The Daily Telegraph]].
Schlink, Leo. (29 July 2018). "Australian golf champion Ian Stanley dies following a long battle with cancer". [[Herald Sun]].
(30 July 2018). "Death Notice: Stanley - Ian". Herald Sun.
"2006 Media Guide". PGA Tour of Australasia.
(22 June 1992). "Golf". [[The Sydney Morning Herald]].
"Australian PGA Seniors Championship Winners List".

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