Date of birth: March 7, 1959

Place of birth: Austin, MN

Height: 6’2”

Weight: 190 pounds

Residence: Scottsdale, AZ

Turned pro: 1982

1999 PGA Tour earnings: $1,435,564

A late developer in the paid ranks, Lehman played on the US Tour without much success from 1983 to 1985. He took an assistant pro's job in California and turned down the chance to become golf coach to the University of Minnesota because it meant he had to sell skiing equipment in the winter. He travelled around the country in a battered old car with 180,000 miles on the clock in the early nineties because he was so short of money. He then played on the Hogan Tour in 1990 and 1991, winning four events, and he has not looked back since.

His breakthrough season came in 1994 when he finished runner-up to Jose Maria Olazabal in the Masters at Augusta. Later that year, he won his first PGA Tour title when four consecutive rounds of 67 gave him a five-shot victory over Greg Norman at the Memorial Tournament. He finished the year with more than one million dollars in earnings. In 1996, he won the Open Championship at Royal Lytham and St. Annes on the back of a third-round 64. He closed the year with a six-shot triumph in the PGA Tour Championship and he was fittingly made the US Player of the Year. He was a losing member of two US Ryder Cup teams but played a vital role in securing last year's win at Brookline. He backed this up  with his first PGA tour win for three years at the Phoenix Open in January 2000. 

Major victories: British Open 1996

Representative honours: Presidents Cup 1994, 1996; Ryder Cup 1995, 1997, 1999; World Cup 1996.

European PGA Tour wins: 1997 Loch Lomond World Invitational

PGA Tour wins: 1994 Memorial Tournament. 1995 Colonial National Invitation. 1996 Tour Championship. 2000 Phoenix Open.

Other international wins: 1993 Casio World Open in Japan.