Name	Nick Faldo
Height	6 ft 3 in
Naionality	English
Date of Birth	18-July-1957
Place of Birth	Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England
Famous for	Golfer

Nick Faldo is an English professional golfer on the European Tour, now mainly an on-air golf analyst. A top player of his era, he won six major championships: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked No. 1 on the Official World Golf Ranking for a total of 98 weeks.

Faldo has since become a television pundit for major golf championships. In 2006, Faldo became the lead golf analyst for CBS Sports, and in 2012 joined the BBC Sport on-air team. Feeling he needed to refine his game in order to become a regular contender in major championships, (British tabloids dubbed him "Nick Foldo" after collapses at the 1983 Open Championship and the 1984 Masters), he spent the mid-1980s remodeling his swing under the tutelage of David Leadbetter. His performances dropped off for a couple of years as the changes occurred, but by 1987 he was playing at an even higher level, and he claimed his first major title at that year's Open Championship at Muirfield. He beat American Paul Azinger by one stroke, having parred every hole in his final round. Azinger held the lead for a time, but bogeyed the last two holes. In the 1988 U.S. Open, Faldo lost an 18-hole Monday playoff to Curtis Strange by four strokes. Strange shot an even-par round of 71, while Faldo struggled with a round of 75. It was the closest that a British player had come to winning the U.S. Open since Tony Jacklin's victory in 1970. Faldo won two consecutive Masters Tournament's in 1989 and 1990, becoming the first player to win back-to-back Masters Titles since Jack Nicklaus in 1965-66. At the 1989 Masters, Faldo shot a final round of 65, the low round of the tournament, to get into a playoff with Scott Hoch. Faldo won the playoff after holing a somewhat lengthy putt on the 2nd playoff hole (Hoch had missed a 2-foot putt to win on the first playoff hole).

At the 1990 Masters, Faldo came from behind again to get into a playoff with Raymond Floyd, once again winning on the second playoff hole after Floyd pulled his approach shot into a pond left of the green. During a 1995 Ryder Cup match, Tom Lehman was critical of Faldo for not clearly telling him to pick his ball up when it was a foot away from the hole. Lehman said: "Faldo mumbled something and then made a gesture to me." This angered the American who said: "I told him to speak clearly. He stretched his arms out as if to say, 'Put the ball in your pocket, you idiot.' “In an interview in 2005, Curtis Strange said: "Nick Faldo stared a lot of guys down. He had a way of folding his arms and looking at you as though he knew you were going to make a mistake. But in our playoff in the 1988 U.S. Open, I was in a good frame of mind to handle him. We didn't say three words all day, which was fine with me. I'm proud of beating him when he was in his prime."

Peter McEvoy, a former Walker Cup captain, has rejected media criticism of Faldo and the suggestion that he was a "robot". McEvoy wrote: "Faldo is a leading contender to be Britain's finest ever sportsman in an individual sport. He is the gold standard from which the rest of modern British golf has to be judged."