Sir Nick Faldo has six major titles to his name but when it comes to the very best of those six wins, there is no doubting his 1990 triumph in The Open at St Andrews tops the lot.
Faldo was very much the main man in golf during those opening years of the 90s and having won The Open already in 1987, he went into the 1990 event at St Andrews very much one of the favourites.
What ensued, though, was not just a good performance to win a major.
What Faldo produced around the home of golf was one of the most memorable and best performances in Open history.
Indeed, Faldo’s performance was so impressive that it took a certain Tiger Woods to break the record years later.
How Nick Faldo won the 1990 Open
Going into the tournament, Faldo had already captured three majors and was fresh off of winning The Masters the same year.
Faldo, though, seemed to save his very best for the Old Course and he simply destroyed the field with a mesmerising display of golf from tee to green.
Quite remarkably, Faldo didn’t make a single three putt for the entire tournament while he also managed to find just a single bunker through four rounds of golf.
In the end, Faldo posted a score of 270, or 18-under par, to win the tournament by five shots.
Coincidentally, the two players below him – Payne Stewart and Mark McNulty – posted scores of 13-under, which would have been enough to win every previous Open held at the venue.
Faldo’s performance, then was one for the ages and it wasn’t until Tiger Woods came along in 2000 and shot a 19-under par that the record for The Open was broken.
Nick Faldo’s golf career in numbers
Sir Nick Faldo is definitely one of the greatest sportsmen to emerge from the British Isles in recent memory and he was a warrior out on the golf course.
Along with six majors, he won another three PGA Tour events but he also won another 30 – the 5th highest of all time – on the European Tour.
Furthermore, he came within a whisker of achieving the grand slam, with 2nd place finishes at the US Open in 1988 and at the PGA Championship in 1992 proving tough to take.
Nevertheless, Faldo is one of the greatest to ever do it and with six majors and three green jackets in the bag, he’ll look back on a career that was more than acceptable.