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Graham Vivian Marsh (born 14 January 1944) was one
of the leading Australian professional golfers of
his generation.
Marsh was born in Kalgoorlie, Australia. He attended
the University of Western Australia and Claremont
Teachers College before turning professional in
1969.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Marsh was a regular
winner on the European Tour, the Japan Golf Tour and
the PGA Tour of Australasia. He also won several
events in Asia outside of Japan and one on the U.S.-
based PGA Tour, the 1977 Heritage Classic. Marsh had
an outstanding win rate on the European Tour, where
he accumulated eleven titles even though he never
played more than seven events in Europe in a season.
He also won the Colgate World Match Play
Championship, which was not an official money
European Tour event at the time, in England in 1977.
He had 56 wins in all in his regular career, making
him one of the most successful players of his era
not to win a major championship.
As a senior, Marsh has played extensively in the
United States on the Champions Tour winning six
events including two senior majors, the 1997 U.S.
Senior Open and the 1999 Tradition. He has also won
the Japan Senior Open twice.
Marsh is also active in golf course design through
Graham Marsh Golf Design which he established in
1986. The company's early projects were in Australia
and Japan, but it later branched out to other parts
of Asia and to Europe and the United States.
In 1984, Marsh was an MBE for services to golf. He
is a past chairman of the PGA Tour of Australasia.
His younger brother Rod Marsh was a distinguished
Australian cricketer and coach.
