FILE: GOLF - Europe's 1995 Ryder Cup winning captain Bernard Gallacher suffers heart attack

Record ID: 596174

  • Title: FILE: GOLF - Europe's 1995 Ryder Cup winning captain Bernard Gallacher suffers heart attack
  • Date: 30th August 2013
  • Summary: DUBLIN, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (SEPTEMBER 25, 1995) (REUTERS) RYDER CUP TEAM CAPTAIN BERNARD GALLACHER RAISES ARM IN AIR WITH THE TROPHY COLIN MONTGOMERIE WALKING ACROSS TARMAC WITH WOMAN (LEFT TO RIGHT) MEMBERS OF RYDER CUP TEAM SEVE BALLESTEROS, BERNHARD LANGER, NICK FALDO, BERNARD GALLACHER AND PER-ULRIK JOHANNSON AND COSTANTINO ROCCA RYDER CUP TEAM WALK INTO NEWS CONFERE
  • Embargoed: 14th September 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Ireland, United Kingdom
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  • Country: Ireland United Kingdom
  • Topics: Sports
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  • Story Text: Former European Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher is in a critical condition in hospital in his native Scotland after suffering a suspected heart attack.
    "We are in touch with Bernard's wife Lesley and the Gallacher family and obviously we join with everyone in wishing Bernard a speedy recovery," European Tour chief executive George O'Grady said in a statement on Friday (August 30).
    The 64-year-old Scot skippered the Ryder Cup team in 1991, 1993 and 1995.
    Europe lost by 14 1/2 to 13 1/2 points at Kiawah Island, South Carolina in Gallacher's first match in charge.
    His team were then beaten 15-13 on home soil at The Belfry two years later before he finally landed his first win by 14 1/2 to 13 1/2 points against Lanny Wadkins's U.S. side at Oak Hill Country Club in New York in 1995.
    Gallacher, one of the leading players on the tour in the 1970s and 1980s, won 13 times in Europe and on eight occasions elsewhere.
    In 1969 he became the youngest golfer to represent the-then Britain and Ireland team in the Ryder Cup, a record that has since been eclipsed by Nick Faldo, Paul Way and Sergio Garcia.
    Gallacher went on to compete in eight Ryder Cups as a player.
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