| SENIOR TOUR Victories |
| (3) 1997 Pittsburgh Senior Classic. 1998 Comfort Classic,
Kroger Senior Classic. |
| Other Victories |
| 1968 Brazil Amateur Championship. 1970 South African
Amateur Championship. 1973 Western Province Open, South
Africa International Classic. 1974 ICL Transvaal Open.
1976 Scandanavian Enterprise Open, Rhodesian Dunlop Masters,
Swaziland Holiday Inns Invitational, Transvaal Open. 1977
Sun Alliance PGA Match-Play Championship. 1978 South African
Open. 1979 Swiss Open. 1980 Zimbabwe Open, South African
PGA, Vaal Reefs Open. 1983 State Express Classic. 1989
Murphy's Cup, Twee Jongegezellen Masters (SA). |
| Current Year Charles Schwab Cup
Points and Positions |
| 53 (40th) |
| Current Year SENIOR PGA TOUR Money
and Positions |
| $125,963 (36) |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Finishes |
| T9--Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Round |
| 64 at Round 3, Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| T22--1975 Masters Tournament. |
| Best 2001 SENIOR TOUR Finishes |
| T2--TD Waterhouse Championship; T3--NFL Golf Classic;
T4--Mexico Senior Classic |
| 2001 Season SENIOR TOUR |
| Tournaments Entered--34; in money--34; Top-10 finishes--3 |
| 2001 Season Highlights |
| Surpassed his earnings total of a year ago in his 21st
event in mid-July (FORD SENIOR PLAYERS)...Was again one
of the SENIOR TOUR's busiest players, playing in more
than 30 official events for the fourth straight season...Tied
for a distant second at the TD Waterhouse Championship,
eight strokes back of Ed Dougherty despite a 54-hole total
of 14-under 202 at Tiffany Greens. Performance near Kansas
City was his best on the SENIOR TOUR since a T2 at the
1998 EMC Kaanapali Classic...Also T3 at the NFL Golf Classic,
one stroke out of a playoff with Allen Doyle and eventual
winner John Schroeder...Fired a final-round 64 on the
last day of the Mexico Senior Classic, his lowest round
since posting 64 at the 1999 Vantage Championship, and
eventually T4 in Puebla...Was tied for the first-round
lead at the Las Vegas Senior Classic, but faded on the
weekend and T32...Made the first hole-in-one of the season
at the SBC Senior Classic. Aced Valencia CC's 178-yard
third hole with a 5-iron during the second round. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2000: Registered four top-10s and went over the $3-million
mark in SENIOR TOUR career money with T5 at the Royal
Caribbean Classic. Finished eight points back of Bruce
Fleisher in the Modified Stableford format at Key Biscayne...Also
opened and closed with 66 at the AT&T Canada Senior Open
Championship in Winnipeg and placed solo fifth...Had to
withdraw from the Boone Valley Classic after undergoing
an emergency appendectomy the night prior to the final
round...Attended 2000 National Qualifying Tournament and
finished T11 but did not participate in a playoff for
a conditional card. 1999: T6 at the State Farm Senior
Classic and was solo sixth at the AT&T Canada Senior Open
Championship where he was in contention until early in
the final round at Richelieu Valley. 1998: Posted two
victories and was fifth on the official money list with
over $1 million in earnings...Joined Hale Irwin as the
only other player to win back-to-back events...Registered
a tournament-record 20-under-par 196 to defeat Bruce Summerhays
by two strokes at the Comfort Classic and came back a
week later to win the rain-shortened Kroger Senior Classic
in a playoff. Made birdie on the second extra hole to
best four other players after Sunday's final round was
canceled. 1997: One of the real surprises on the SENIOR
TOUR, with a victory and 14 top-10 finishes in 25 starts
(two as a Monday Qualifier)...Earned $906,565 and was
a Rookie of the Year candidate...Began the year as a conditionally-exempt
player (second eight at the 1996 National Qualifying Tournament)
and did not play in his first event until late April at
the PGA Seniors' Championship (T35)...Lost to Bruce Crampton
in a three-hole playoff at the Cadillac NFL Golf Classic...Also
lost in a two-hole playoff to Bruce Summerhays at the
Saint Luke's Classic, where he posted rounds of 63-65-71...Had
a 29 on the back nine of his opening round, one of just
three sub-30 scores on the SENIOR TOUR that season...Won
his first SENIOR TOUR title at the Pittsburgh Senior Classic...Caught
Bob Duval with birdies on the final two holes of regulation,
then prevailed in a playoff with a par on the sixth extra
hole...Named SENIOR TOUR Player of the Month for August.
1996: Earned his spot on the 1997 SENIOR TOUR by finishing
10th at the National Qualifying Tournament...Involved
in a six-man playoff for positions 9-14 before claiming
10th spot overall with a par on the fourth extra hole. |
| Personal |
| Credits his father as the person who most influenced
his career...Was a scratch player by the age of 15...Golf
hero is Gary Player...Is among a South African contingent
on the SENIOR TOUR that includes Player, John Bland, Simon
Hobday and Harold Henning...Lists Cypress Point as his
favorite golf course and Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones as
his favorite athlete. |
| SENIOR TOUR Playoff Record |
| 2-2 |
