Ian Woosnam's huge net assets, Barbados and Jersey life with wife, nightmare that cost £ 220,000

With the PGA championship in Quail Hollow in the Midway Point you will find a look at the life of the Welsh Golflegende and former master master Ian Woosnam

Ian Woosnam remains the only Welsher who has ever won a golf major.

His crowning achievement came when he won the Masters in Augusta in Augusta in 1991, the year in which he also reached the top position in the world rankings. In total, Woosnam spent 50 weeks at the top of the tree, with only four players held the coveted position longer.

While the masters have proven his only big title, 'Woosie' won astonishing 52 pro tournaments. He also enjoyed great success in the Golf team and won the World Cup for Wales twice, while between 1983 and 1997 he played in eight consecutive European Ryder Cup teams.

He led Europe to one of its most dominant victories over the USA team, which was crushed 18.5 to 9.5 in the K Club in Ireland in 2006. Here is the deep course about Woosnam's life outside the course, its experienced investments and the mistake that cost him £ 220,000 …

What is Ian Woosnam's assets?

Woosnam, 67, has an estimated net asset of around 22 million pounds. This assets were not only obtained from the golf career, but also from a number of experienced real estate transactions and investments that go back to the early days of his pro -career.

In 1982 he bought a London apartment for £ 16,000 and sold it more than a year later for £ 10,000. In his approach to his tax matters, he revealed to the Telegraph last year that he made it “millions per year” in investments.

“It's great when you make money, but it won't take forever,” he said. “Despite the occasional pleasure for treats, I am actually quite careful because the father installed me.

“There were many others on the tour that three times as much as I do. In my flowering period, the prize money was not the obscene amounts that they now get on one of the tours, so they had to be smart and invest properly. I have a financial advisor who takes care of my investments and I do several million a year.”

Barbados and Jersey live

When he called on the trophies and winners checks in the late 1980s and early 90s, Woosnam bought an airplane that a friend was dealing with in Europe and planned to move into Jersey's tax haven.

He explained: “That's why Jersey has been my official home in the past 30 years. I have drawn to save taxes and make a better life for my young family.”

While Jersey is his constant home with Ms. Glendryth, he enjoys regular trips to Barbados. He said: “My three children [two daughters and a son] All are very useful with money because I have not survived.

“They all live within half a mile of me here in Jersey and I see my grandchildren all the time. Every other year I treat them to Christmas in Barbados.”

Woosnam has close relationships with the Caribbean island, where he has a property and organizes a Legends tournament. He is an ambassador for the Apes Hill Complex who houses the event.

Open an error that costs £ 220K

However, he saw how a piece of money slipped through his fingers at the open 2001 after an embarrassing mistake of his Caddy, Mile Byrne. When Woosam had too many clubs in his pocket in the second hole, he was docked by officers and fell from the victory against victory in Royal Lytham.

While he landed for third place, he would not have lost these two shots, he would have taken second place, which would have given him additional prize money of £ 220,000 when David Duval took the title. Woosnam was angry with the mistake, hurled a club in front of the tea box with anger and scolded his Bagman.

However, he continued to work with Byrne and said: “Mile and I will continue to work together and we will both have learned a lot from experience.”

Bryne added: “I am obviously disturbed about what my mistake Ian cost and it regret not checking the bag as long as I live.”