Brian Waites is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 professional golf

Golf

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er.

Waites turned professional in 1957 and played on the European Tour through most of the 1970s and 1980s. He was in his prime between 1978 and 1984, ranking between 10th and 22nd on the Order of Merit in each of those seven years. He won two European Tour events. Waites was a member of the losing 1983 European Ryder Cup

Ryder Cup

The Ryder Cup is a biennial golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. The competition is jointly administered by the PGA of America and the PGA European Tour, and is contested every two years, the venue alternating between courses in the United States and Europe...

 team and represented England three times at the World Cup.

Waites joined the European Seniors Tour

European Seniors Tour

The European Seniors Tour is a professional tour for male golfers aged 50 and over run by the PGA European Tour.The Tour was founded in 1992. In 2008 it had a total prize fund of €7,729,284, so it is much further behind the U.S.-based Champions Tour in relative prize money than the main European...

 in its 1992 debut season and had a successful career at that level, winning four tournaments and making the top ten on the Order of Merit four times. He was the first man to play 100 tournaments on the European Seniors Tour. Waites was also the club professional at Notts Golf Club between 1969 and 1998. He won the Nottinghamshire Championship seven times, the Notts Professional Strokeplay Championship seven times and the Notts Professional Matchplay Championship five times.

European Tour wins (2)

• 1978 Tournament Players Championship
  Tournament Players Championship (United Kingdom)
  The Tournament Players Championship was a European Tour golf tournament which was played in either England or Scotland each year from 1977 to 1984...
  
  
• 1982 Car Care Plan International
  Car Care Plan International
  The Car Care Plan International was a European Tour golf tournament which was played annually from 1982 to 1986. It was hosted by three different golf clubs in the English city of Leeds. In 1983 and 1984, it was won by future six time major championship winner Nick Faldo...
  
  

Other regular career wins (24)

• 1969 Nottinghamshire Championship, Notts Professional Strokeplay Championship, Notts Professional Matchplay Championship
• 1971 Nottinghamshire Championship, Notts Professional Matchplay Championship
• 1972 Notts Professional Strokeplay Championship
• 1973 Nottinghamshire Championship
• 1974 Nottinghamshire Championship
• 1975 Notts Professional Strokeplay Championship, Notts Professional Matchplay Championship
• 1977 Notts Professional Matchplay Championship
• 1978 Nottinghamshire Championship
• 1980 Benson & Hedges Kenya Open, Mufulira Open, Notts Professional Strokeplay Championship
• 1981 Notts Professional Strokeplay Championship
• 1982 Mufulira Open, Zambia Open
  Zambia Open
  The Zambia Open is a men's professional golf tournament played in Zambia, that has been part of the Sunshine Tour since 1996, and was co-sanctioned by the European based Challenge Tour from 2001 to 2004...
  
  , Nottinghamshire Championship
• 1985 Cock O' The North (Zambia)
• 1986 Nottinghamshire Championship, Notts Professional Strokeplay Championship
• 1989 Notts Professional Strokeplay Championship, Notts Professional Matchplay Championship

European Seniors Tour wins (4)

• 1994 D Day Seniors Open
• 1995 Northern Electric Seniors
• 1997 Credit Suisse Private Banking Seniors Open
• 1998 Elf Seniors Open

Other senior career wins (2)

• 1990 PGA Seniors Championship
  PGA Seniors Championship
  The PGA Seniors Championship is a European Seniors Tour golf tournament for men aged fifty and above. It was founded in 1957, and became part of the European Seniors Tour on its founding in 1992. It was played at the Royal Dublin Golf Club in the Republic of Ireland that year, but since 1993 it has...
  
  
• 1991 PGA Seniors Championship
  PGA Seniors Championship
  The PGA Seniors Championship is a European Seniors Tour golf tournament for men aged fifty and above. It was founded in 1957, and became part of the European Seniors Tour on its founding in 1992. It was played at the Royal Dublin Golf Club in the Republic of Ireland that year, but since 1993 it has...
  
  

Results in major championships

Tournament	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open U.S. Open (golf) The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T34
PGA Championship PGA Championship The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open U.S. Open (golf) The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	DNP	T58	DNP	DNP	51	T40	CUT	T52	DNP	CUT
PGA Championship PGA Championship The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open U.S. Open (golf) The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	T32	T50	T47	T19	CUT
PGA Championship PGA Championship The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

DNP = Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1976 and 1984 Open Championships)

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Yellow background for top-10

Team appearances

• Ryder Cup
  Ryder Cup
  The Ryder Cup is a biennial golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. The competition is jointly administered by the PGA of America and the PGA European Tour, and is contested every two years, the venue alternating between courses in the United States and Europe...
  
  : 1983
• World Cup: 1980, 1982, 1983
• Hennessy Cognac Cup: 1980 (winners), 1982 (winners), 1984 (winners)
• PGA Cup 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 (winners), 1979 (winners), 1990
• Praia D'el Rey European Cup: 1997, 1998

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