Ian Donald Leggatt
Inducted In
2004
Ian Donald Leggatt was born in Cambridge in 1965. Leggatt become involved in speed skating at age seven, winning many National and International Awards while representing Canada. He also became a member of Puslinch Lake Golf Club at age seven, and won the Club championship four times. Moving to the Galt Country Club, where he played for several years, Leggatt won the Club Championship three times.
Leggatt attended Texas Wesleyan University, graduating in 1990 in Sports Management, and attained National Association Intercollegiate Athletes All-American in 1988-1989. He won Ontario Matchplay in 1988 and he qualified for the Professional Golf Association in 1990. Through the 1990s, Leggatt played the Canadian, South African, South American, Asian and Australian Professional Golf Tours. He was a rookie member of the Buy.Com Tour in 2000 finishing fifth, and he won the Buy.Com Dayton Open U.S. PGA Tour as Rookie in 2001.
He won the 2002 Touchstone Energy Tucson Open and tied for eighteenth at the Bell Canada Open. He finished twentieth in the U.S. Open in 2003. Leggatt was a member of the Canadian World Cup Team 1998 at New Zealand finishing individual sixth overall.
Leggatt works with children with disabilities through Ronald McDonald’s Children’s Charities. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife Lori and their daughter Mia.
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