About Bernard Gallacher
Bernard Gallacher (born 9 February 1949) is a Scottish retired professional golfer. He captained the Europe team to victory in the 1995 Ryder Cup. == Early life and amateur career == Gallacher was born in Bathgate in West Lothian, Scotland. He took up golf at the age of eleven. In 1965, he won the Lothians Golf Association Boys Championship. He won the 1967 Scottish Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship and turned professional the same year. == Professional career == He won the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award in 1968. His first professional wins came in 1969; a pair of them in Zambia and another pair in Europe in the equivalent of European Tour events. (The European Tour wasn't established until 1972.) He finished 1969 as Order of merit winner earning the Harry Vardon Trophy. He accumulated ten wins on the European Tour between 1974 and 1984 and finished in the top ten on the European Tour Order of Merit five times between 1972 and 1982, with a best placing of third in 1974.
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