Ronan Rafferty

Rafferty was born in Newry, Northern Ireland. He won the Boys Amateur Championship aged fifteen and played in the Walker Cup aged seventeen. He tied for first place with Peter McEvoy in the 1980 English Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship for the Brabazon Trophy.
The most notable achievement of Rafferty's professional career came in 1989, when he finished top of the European Tour Order of Merit. He came close to breaking the then record for consecutive cuts made on the European Tour in the early 1990s, before struggling for form amid injuries later in the decade. He failed to finish inside the top 100 on the Order of Merit between 1998 and 2004. In total he has seven wins on the tour, all of which came between 1989 and 1993. Rafferty now plays few tournaments, and is involved in broadcasting, where he works as a commentator and analyst, and golf course design. Member 1989 European Ryder Cup team.
Played on the European Tour between 1982 and 2003 in 459 events. Won seven times, was runner-up 12 times and in the top-ten 96 times earning euro3,145,980. The Senior PGA Championship will be the first time Rafferty is playing as a senior and the first time he has played in a sanctioned European Tour event since the 2007 Volvo Masters.