Daniel Chopra

Daniel Chopra
Personal information
Full name Daniel Samir Chopra
Born 23 December 1973 (1973-12-23) (age 38)
Stockholm, Sweden
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight 180 lb (82 kg; 13 st)
Nationality  Sweden
Residence Orlando, Florida, USA
Perth, Australia
Career
Turned professional 1992
Current tour(s) PGA Tour
European Tour
Professional wins 14
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour 2
Asian Tour 1
Nationwide Tour 3
Challenge Tour 2
Other 6
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament CUT: 2008
U.S. Open T24: 2004
The Open Championship CUT: 2005
PGA Championship T41: 2006

Daniel Samir Chopra (born 23 December 1973) is a Swedish professional golfer.

Chopra was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He represents Sweden and his mother was Swedish, but his father was Indian and Daniel moved to India at age seven where he was raised by his grandparents. He won the All-India Junior Golf Championship at age 14.

Chopra turned professional in 1992. From 1996 to 2002 he played intermittently on the European Tour, sometimes failing to retain his tour card, and in 2004 he joined the U.S.-based PGA Tour.

In 2007 he won his first PGA Tour event at the Ginn sur Mer Classic at Tesoro. Two PGA Tour events later he picked up another win at the season opening Mercedes-Benz Championship.

A difficult 2010 season, where he made only eight PGA Tour cuts in 28 events, cost him his Tour Card. He won the Nationwide Tour's Fresh Express Classic at TPC Stonebrae in 2011. Chopra regained his PGA Tour card for 2012 after finishing 19th on the money list.

Contents

Amateur wins

Professional wins (14)

PGA Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning Score Margin of Victory Runner(s)-up
1 29 Oct 2007 Ginn sur Mer Classic at Tesoro -19 (67-66-69-71=273) 1 stroke Fredrik Jacobson, Shigeki Maruyama
2 6 Jan 2008 Mercedes-Benz Championship -18 (69-72-67-66=274) Playoff Steve Stricker

Asian Tour wins (1)

Nationwide Tour wins (3)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of victory Runner(s)-up
1 18 Apr 2004 First Tee Arkansas Classic -13 (75-66-68-66=275) 1 stroke John Elliott
2 23 May 2004 Henrico County Open -30 (65-63-65-65=258) 4 strokes Nathan Green, Franklin Langham
3 17 Apr 2011 Fresh Express Classic at TPC Stonebrae -12 (68-69-61=198) 1 stroke Russell Knox, Luke List

Challenge Tour wins (2)

Other wins (6)

Results in major championships

Tournament 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT
U.S. Open T24 DNP DNP DNP T36
The Open Championship DNP CUT DNP DNP DNP
PGA Championship DNP DNP T41 CUT CUT

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

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