October 11, 2007
HSBC World Matchplay Championship
Paul Alexander Casey (born 21 July 1977) is an
English golfer who is a member of the world's top
two professional golf tours, the U.S. based PGA Tour
and the European Tour.
Casey was born in Cheltenham, but moved to Weybridge
at the age of six. After attending Cleves School,
Weybridge and then Hampton School, he then studied
his A levels at Strode's College, Egham. He then
took a golf scholarship at Arizona State University
(one of an increasing number of young British
golfers taking tertiary scholarships in the USA as
sports scholarships are not part of the British
university system). His amateur career was
distinguished. In the U.S. he was the first man to
win three consecutive Pac-10 Championships (1998,
1999 and 2000). In 2000 he broke the championship
scoring record held by Tiger Woods (18 under par)
with a 23 under par 265. Back on the other side of
the Atlantic he won the English Amateur Championship
in 1999 and 2000. He was also a member of Great
Britain and Ireland’s winning 1999 Walker Cup team,
where he was only the third player in seventy seven
years to record four victories without a single
defeat.
