Terry R. Gale is an Australian professional golf

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er.

Gale had a successful amateur career before turning professional at a relatively advanced age in 1976. From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s he won regularly on the PGA Tour of Australasia

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, the Japan Golf Tour

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 and the pre-Asian Tour

Asian Tour

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 Asian circuit. Since turning fifty he has been a member of the European Seniors Tour

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, where he has won seven tournaments. His best season on that tour was 2003, when he finished third on the Order of Merit. He also plays on the Japanese Seniors Tour.

Off the course, Gale was the second Chairman of the PGA Tour of Australasia. His son, Mark Gale

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 was a professional Australian rules football

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er. Gale Sr was also a talented cricketer in his youth, representing his state on occasion, although never at First Class level.

Amateur wins

• 1969 Western Australian Amateur
• 1972 Western Australian Amateur
• 1974 Australian Amateur
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  , Western Australian Amateur
• 1975 Western Australian Amateur

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (21)

• 1969 Nedlands Masters (as an amateur)
• 1970 Nedlands Masters (as an amateur)
• 1971 Nedlands Masters (as an amateur)
• 1972 Western Australian Open (as an amateur)
• 1975 Western Australian Open (as an amateur)
• 1976 Nedlands Masters
• 1979 Nedlands Masters
• 1980 Western Australian Open
• 1981 New Zealand PGA Championship
  New Zealand PGA Championship
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  , West Australian PGA, Nedlands Masters, Halls Head Western Open
• 1982 New Zealand Open
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  , Air New Zealand/Shell Open, Town & Country/Channel 9 West Australian Open
• 1983 Ford Dealers South Australian Open, Town & Country Western Australian Open, National Panasonic Nedlands Masters
• 1985 Halls Head Estates Nedlands Masters
• 1988 Air New Zealand/Shell Open
• 1992 Nedlands Masters

Other wins (11)

• 1977 Forbes Classic
• 1978 Singapore Open
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• 1979 Royal Fremantle Open, Nedlands Masters
• 1981 Halls Head Western Open, CIG Channel 9 Nedlands Masters
• 1983 Malaysian Open
• 1984 Indonesia Open
• 1985 Malaysian Open
• 1987 Malaysian Open
• 1992 Pioneer Singapore PGA Championship

Australian Seniors Tour wins (2)

• 1997 Australian PGA Seniors Championship
• 2006 Australian PGA Seniors Championship

European Seniors Tour wins (7)

• 1996 Belfry PGA Seniors Championship
• 2002 GIN Monte Carlo Invitational
• 2003 Royal Westmoreland Barbados Open, Tobago Plantations Seniors Classic, Charles Church Scottish Seniors Open
• 2004 Bosch Italian Seniors Open
• 2005 Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open
  Bad Ragaz PGA Seniors Open
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External links

• Profile on CricketArchive