Sir Nick Faldo doing a clinic in Laguna
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short courses, designed to play forward and
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current easy demeanor, sense of adventure
and exploration. Not to mention a wry sense
of humor. At the end of a trip, he once
answered a soon to be flummoxed young
local news reporter’s softball of a question
about his experience, “Sir Nick, how did you
find Cambodia?” Sir Nick, “I didn’t, I just let
the pilot do it while I took a nap.”
No article should about Faldo should
be written without a nod to Sir Nick’s
philanthropy. His work developing young
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is well known, but things like meeting a
little girl on a site and out of earshot of
media, quietly paying for her schooling and a About Sir Nick Faldo
computer is not.
With six Major championships, more than
40 tournament victories and a total of 98
Spending time with Sir Nick gives you a
weeks as the world’s number one golfer,
sense of the drive and focus that propelled
Nick is regarded as the most successful
him to Six Major Championships and many
Tour Wins, but also reveals a side of him that golfer that Britain has ever produced. For
his distinctive contributions and service to
the public might not imagine, that is of a
gentle observant giant who truly cares about golf, Nick Faldo received a knighthood from
Queen Elizabeth II in November 2009. Sir
everything he does all the while not taking
himself too, too seriously. His on the course Nick is the only living British golfer to receive
such an honour. www.nickfaldo.com
persona during his glory days belied his
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