Talk:Nick Faldo

Until some one can work his birth place in to the main article cleanly (as required by the style manual), I'm removing his birth place. He was born in Welwyn Garden City Trevor1 05:22, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I really dont think it can be said that he is the most successful European player ever... its possible but not certain ... i think it should be removed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.106.246.7 (talk) 17:40, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

You say on the article he was the best player in europe during the 80s, and thats not true, Seve Ballesteros was the best, seve had 50 victories in the european tour and was doing a revolution in the game of golf by that time, faldo was the second best. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.153.52.138 (talk) 12:43, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

An MBE and a knighthood (KBE) are part of the same honours system (Order of the British Empire). The MBE becomes redundant, and should not be used, once a higher rank is attained. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.126.151.43 (talk) 20:36, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

I have re-introduced the MBE as Sir Nick Faldo was awarded a Knight Bachelor (Kt), not the KBE, so he is able to retain his post-nominal honour of MBE. As you correctly say, if he were awarded a KBE or even GBE within that order, then the MBE would be dropped, but he would require the post-nominal KBE or GBE after his name.Ds1994 (talk) 19:55, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Fanny!

Why, prey tell, is there no mention in the article of 'Fanny'? The best part of watching Nick play was seeing a bit of Fanny. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.224.26.235 (talk) 17:03, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

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Playoff Box

I see there is no Playoff Box covering Faldo's play on the US PGA Tour. I would be willing to add the playoff box if nobody else wants to. Whosnext23 (talk) 08:19, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

The only reason for there not being one is that there's not enough of us, so feel free to add one. You'll probably find that User:Tewapack checks thing out so don't be offended if he makes minor changes. Nigej (talk) 08:53, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

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Fanny Sunesson

Not one word about Fanny Sunesson? Since female caddie are not very common (as golf bags tend to be very heavy), this could be something worth mentioning.

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Win Totals

Can someone clarify what is going on with the wins totals. Article states he has 43 professional wins. But when you look in the relevant section:

• 9 PGA Tour wins
• 30 European Tour wins
• 1 South African Tour
• 9 "others"

Looking at Greg Norman to see how this is usually handled, and his 80 appears to include everything in the list, but then Phil Mickelson has some of his omitted from his total. So what is the inclusion / exclusion criteria? Koncorde (talk) 20:54, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

His six major wins counted on both PGA and European Tours so you can't just add the tour totals to get the overall total. Tewapack (talk) 22:45, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

So you're saying the total is 49, but then you need to deduct 6 because they're Majors even though they are listed under the Professional section? Is this normal, because it doesn't seem so when I look at other golfers (it appears very inconsistent). If the section headers provide counts as summaries but then the underlying totals don't add up that seems misleading, especially in the absence of an explainer note. Koncorde (talk) 06:36, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

No. We deduct 6 because 6 wins appear in both the PGA tour wins section and the European tour wins section. It's very common for events to be part of 2 or more tours. See e.g. Daniel Hillier who recently won the New Zealand Open. That was an event on both the Australian and Asian tours. In that article the sections note that the event was co-sanctioned, but we don't normally bother with a note for major championships. Nigej (talk) 07:50, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Ah, I see now the duplication within the lists themselves (so you do still need to deduct 6 from the total, but because of duplication). Would a table not help with this then? Major Championships, Tour Championships, Other PGA Tour, Other European Tour, and "Other"? It would then clearly add up to the total we say it should. Koncorde (talk) 10:31, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

The problem is that e.g. this https://www.europeantour.com/players/sir-nick-faldo-53/career-record and this https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/stats/records-and-achievements/ from the European Tour states that he had 30 wins on the tour. It would be more confusing if we had him down with 6 majors and 24 "other" European tour wins. Nigej (talk) 10:41, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't think you realise how confusing it actually is now, and you already have a little stub table at the top of each subsection for each subcategory which gives you the breakdown of the individual Tour wins etc which is basically halfway there. When we say someone has "43" it should be easy for the reader to identify where that 43 is being synthesised from if it isn't from an actual exhaustive source on the matter. Like even the introduction is unusually imprecise:

"His 43 professional wins include 30 victories on the European Tour and six major championships: three Open Championships (1987, 1990, 1992) and three Masters (1989, 1990, 1996)."

So I very much read that as 30 + 6, which is already short of the total. I go down to work out what the actual count is and find that there's 49 + 6, but that those 6 are duplicated in two sub-lists. So I can't use simple arithmetic to verify what is stated.

Not trying to blame anyone here, its obviously a WP:GOLF decision at some level, but the lead alone needs revising to be more clear, and the rest could do with some consideration (not least inconsistent table colouration - not sure why Majors in the Professional section are different to the Majors in the Majors section. Feels like it would be easier to just agree one colour throughout. Koncorde (talk) 16:00, 27 May 2026 (UTC)