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Peter Alliss (born 28 February 1931) is a former English professional golfer, and is a BBC television presenter and commentator, author and golf course designer. Alliss is known for his charismatic and unique style of commentary and banter, often displaying a witty demeanour. Since the death of Henry Longhurst in 1978, he has been regarded by many as the "Voice of (British) Golf". In December 2011, he was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in the Lifetime Achievement category and was inducted in May 2012. ==Early years and playing career== His father Percy was one of the leading British professional golfers in the 1920s and 1930s, winning many tournaments in Britain and Continental Europe. Peter Alliss was born in Berlin while his father was employed as a club professional at the Wannsee Golf Club. He weighed at birth, reputed to be a European record at the time.〔 Peter had an older brother, Percy Alexander, known as Alec. Alec was born in 1924 and was also a professional golfer. Percy returned from Germany in early 1932, when Peter was about a year old. Peter attended a private boarding school in the south of England which he left at the age of 14, the minimum school leaving age. In 1946 Peter played for England boys against Scotland, winning both his foursomes and singles matches. In the subsequent Boys Amateur Championship, Alliss was the favourite but lost in the quarter-finals to Donald Dunstan from Manchester at the 19th hole. Alliss began his career as a professional golfer in 1947, at the age of 16, as an assistant to his father at Ferndown Golf Club. Peter and Percy travelled to Hoylake to play in the 1947 Open Championship. Peter scored 86 in his first qualifying round on the Championship course and failed to qualify. Percy also struggled on the Hoylake course and failed to qualify by a stroke after rounds of 74 and 82. In early 1948 Alliss impressed in the Coombe Hill Assistants' Tournament but came to more prominence in the Manchester Evening Chronicle Tournament where his 69 was the only score under 70 on the final day. He finished tied for 9th and won the assistants' prize. He also won the assistant's prize in the West of England Championship. The PGA Assistants' Championship was restarted in 1949 and Alliss finished tied for 2nd place, five strokes behind Harry Weetman, 10 years his senior. From June 1949 to June 1951 Alliss served two years national Service in the RAF.〔http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafgolf/Administration/peterallis.cfm〕 This limited his golfing activities although he did play in a few tournaments during this period. Between 1954 and 1969, Alliss won 21 professional tournaments,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Peter )〕 including three British PGA Championships in 1957, 1962 and 1965. His first round of 63 in the 1961 British PGA Championship was a tournament record at the time and remained the joint-lowest round in the tournament until Robert Karlsson's round of 62 in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BMW PGA Championship 2012 – Statistics )〕 In September 1958, Alliss won the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Opens in three successive weeks.〔 He played on ten teams representing England in the World Cup. Alliss played on eight Ryder Cup teams (1953, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, and 1969), compiling a 43 per cent winning percentage. Percy and Peter Alliss were the first father and son to both participate in the Ryder Cup (Antonio Garrido and his son Ignacio later became the second). Alliss had five top-10 finishes in the Open Championship, coming closest in 1954 at Royal Birkdale when he finished just four shots behind the champion Peter Thomson. In an interview in 2011, Alliss said: "My biggest regret is that the Alliss family deserved to win an Open Championship. I had the talent to win. It just never happened. Alliss gave Sean Connery golf lessons before the filming of the 1964 James Bond film ''Goldfinger'', which involved a scene where Connery, as Bond, played golf against gold magnate Auric Goldfinger at Stoke Park Golf Club in Buckinghamshire.〔 The lessons started a life-long love of playing golf for Connery. Alliss's competitive career was almost over by the time the European Tour was formally established in 1972, but he played in some events in the Tour's early years, making his last appearance on the tour in 1975. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Alliss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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