Mark McNulty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Mark McNulty

professional golfer

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1953

Place of Birth: Bindura, Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe

Profession: golfer

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Mark McNulty

  • Mark William McNulty (born 24 March 1953) is an Irish/Zimbabwean professional golfer currently playing on the Champions Tour.
  • He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, and featured in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking for 83 weeks from 1987 to 1992.McNulty was born in Bindura, Southern Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe).
  • He was raised on a farm in the Centenary area of Zimbabwe.
  • His step-father was an amateur pilot who had an airstrip on the farm.
  • When his step-father was diagnosed with epilepsy, he was forced to give up flying.
  • He converted the airstrip into a three-hole golf course, where Mark first learned to play golf. McNulty became an Irish citizen in 2003 at the age of 50.
  • He was eligible to do so because his maternal grandmother was born in Ballymena in Northern Ireland.
  • He stated that his reason for doing so was his concern that as a non-resident Zimbabwean it could take him up to two years to get his passport renewed if he lost it.
  • Commentators elaborated that the farm that his family had been managing for 40-something years had been confiscated by the Mugabe regime.
  • He lives in Sunningdale, England.

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