Autographs of Ernie Els
Theodore Ernest Els (/ˈɛls/; born 17 October 1969) is a South African professional golfer. A former World No. 1, he is nicknamed "The Big Easy" due to his physical stature along with his fluid golf swing. Among his more than 70 career victories are four major championships: the U.S. Open in 1994 at Oakmont and in 1997 at Congressional, and The Open Championship in 2002 at Muirfield and in 2012 at Royal Lytham & St Annes. He is one of six golfers to twice win both the U.S. Open and The Open Championship.
Other highlights in Els's career include topping the 2003 and 2004 European Tour Order of Merit (money list), and winning the World Match Play Championship a record seven times. He was the leading career money winner on the European Tour until overtaken by Lee Westwood in 2011, and was the first member of the tour to earn over €25,000,000 from European Tour events. He has held the number one spot in the Official World Golf Ranking and until 2013 held the record for weeks ranked in the top ten with 788. Els rose to fifteenth in the world rankings after winning the 2012 Open Championship. He was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2010, on his first time on the ballot, and was inducted in May 2011.
Growing up in Lambton, Germiston, South Africa, Els played rugby, cricket, tennis and, starting at age 8, golf. He was a skilled junior tennis player and won the Eastern Transvaal Junior Championships at age 13. Els first learned the game of golf from his father Neels, a trucking executive, at the Germiston Golf course, He was soon playing better than his father (and his older brother, Dirk), and by the age of 14 he was a scratch handicap. It was around this time that he decided to focus exclusively on golf. Els first achieved prominence in 1984, when he won the Junior World Golf Championship in the Boys 13–14 category. Phil Mickelson was second to Els that year. Els won the South African Amateur a few months after his 17th birthday, becoming the youngest-ever winner of that event, breaking the record which had been held since 1935 by Bobby Locke. Els contested the 1987 British Amateur Championship, qualifying from stroke play for the 64-player match play segment, but was knocked out there.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Ernie Els (Ernie Els Winner Signed 2002 Open @ Muirfield 2nd Hole Course Used Golf Flag+COA) was sold in April 2025 for £4,999.99 while the cheapest item (Golf Ernie Els 12X8 photo AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED) found a new owner for £0.49 in June 2019. The month with the most items sold (23) was April 2025 with an average selling price of £133.39 for an autographed item of Ernie Els. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2021 with £249.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was December 2013. In average, an autographed item from Ernie Els is worth £17.24.
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Latest News about Ernie Els
Four-time major winner Ernie Els revealed as the lead architect behind exclusive (09/12/2024): The Els Club Vilamoura will be situated on the Dom Pedro Victoria course, which had hosted the Portugal Masters between 2007 and 2022. 
Ernie Els blasts PGA Tour chief Jay Monahan as he insists 'the board has to chan (21/07/2023): Four-time major champion golfer Ernie Els delivered a harsh critique of the state of the sport and its two warring factions: the PGA Tour which he used to dominate and the rebel LIV Golf. Mistakes cost Ernie Els at the Masters as he chases Spieth (10/04/2015): AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Ernie Els has played Augusta National enough to know the halfway point is far too early to think this Masters is over.Inside Doha Golf Club: Ernie Els’ Course Guide (20/01/2015): On the eve of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, europeantour.com caught up with 2005 winner and four-time Major Champion Ernie Els to get his thoughts on ever present host venue, Doha Golf Club.Hometown hero Ernie Els hitting form in Johannesburg (08/01/2015): Tournament host Ernie Els set about making amends for a winless 2014 at the earliest possible opportunity with an excellent start to his bid for a sixth South African Open title yesterday.
Older News Stories about Ernie Els
Haunted Ernie Els misses the cut but Bubba Watson sees the funny side of early e (07/2014): Ernie Els looked like a man haunted by his horrific start to The Open as the two-time champion trudged round Hoylake on Friday and became the most high-profile star to miss the cut.
