David Frost (golfer)

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David Frost
Personal Information
Birth September 11, 1959 (1959-09-11) (age 48)
Cape Town, South Africa
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight 190 lb (86 kg)
Nationality Flag of South Africa South Africa
College None
Career
Turned Pro 1981
Current tour PGA Tour
Professional wins 22 (PGA Tour: 10, Other: 12)
Best Results in Major Championships
Masters T5: 1995
U.S. Open T15: 1986
British Open 6th: 1987
PGA Championship T10: 1987
Awards
Sunshine Tour
Order of Merit Winner		 1998/99
Byron Nelson Award 1987

David Laurence Frost (born 11 September 1959) is a South African golfer who has more than twenty professional tournament wins to his name, spread across four continents.

Frost was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He turned professional in 1981. He used to be a cigarette salesman. He scored his first professional win in his home country in 1983 and has continued to play in South Africa in the northern winter, but like other leading South African golfers he has spent far more time playing internationally. In line with many other Commonwealth golfers his first move abroad was to the European Tour and he played that tour from 1982 to 1984.

From 1985 he was primarily on the U.S. based PGA Tour, where he went on to win ten tournaments, the most prestigious of which was the 1989 World Series of Golf which he won by defeating Ben Crenshaw at the second playoff hole. He made the top ten on the PGA Tour money list twice, placing 9th in 1988 and 5th in 1993 and was ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 86 weeks between 1988 and 1994.[1] By his forties, he was no longer a regular contender on the tour, but in 2005 he set the all time PGA Tour 72-hole putting record with 92 putts at the MCI Heritage while finishing only tied 38th.

Frost won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit in 1998/99. He was a member of the International Team in the first staging of the Presidents Cup in 1994, and took part again in 1996. In 1997 and 1998 he captained South Africa to victory in the Alfred Dunhill Cup in Scotland. His team mates were Ernie Els and Retief Goosen.

Frost owns a wine business which produces vintages named after golf legends such as Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.

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[edit] Professional wins (22)

[edit] PGA Tour wins (10)

[edit] European Tour wins (2)

[edit] Japan Golf Tour wins (1)

[edit] Other wins (9)

[edit] Results in major championships

Tournament 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP T45 8 T18
U.S. Open DNP DNP T23 T15 T17 CUT T18
The Open Championship CUT T47 T28 CUT 6 T7 CUT
PGA Championship DNP DNP CUT T21 T10 CUT T27
Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
The Masters CUT T32 DNP CUT T35 T5 T10 37 T26 DNP
U.S. Open T33 CUT DNP CUT CUT CUT CUT DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship CUT CUT DNP T24 T51 T31 T40 CUT T42 T7
PGA Championship T31 T48 T73 CUT T25 T67 CUT CUT T56 T21
Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open CUT DNP CUT DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship T55 CUT DNP DNP DNP T15 DNP CUT
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

[edit] Team appearances

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ 69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking

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