Brandon Stone | |
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Personal information | |
Born |
Rustenburg, South Africa |
20 April 1993
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st) |
Nationality | South Africa |
Residence | Pretoria, South Africa |
Career | |
College | University of Texas |
Turned professional | 2013 |
Current tour(s) |
Sunshine Tour European Tour |
Former tour(s) | Challenge Tour |
Professional wins | 3 |
Number of wins by tour | |
European Tour | 2 |
Sunshine Tour | 3 |
Best results in major championships |
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Masters Tournament | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | CUT: 2016 |
PGA Championship | CUT: 2016 |
Achievements and awards | |
Sunshine Tour Order of Merit winner |
2016 |
Brandon Stone (born 20 April 1993) is a South African professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and Sunshine Tour.
Stone won several amateur tournaments in South Africa and played on the 2012 South Africa Eisenhower Trophy team. He played one year of college golf at the University of Texas, winning three events in his freshman year, before turning professional in 2013.
In 2015, Stone played on the Sunshine Tour and Challenge Tour. He finished 14th on the Challenge Tour rankings, aided by second-place finishes at the Barclays Kenya Open and GANT Open and graduated to the European Tour. In November 2015, he earned his first professional win at the Sunshine Tour's Lion of Africa Cape Town Open.
In January 2016, making his second European Tour start as a full member, Stone won the South African Open by two strokes. The event was co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Tour.
Source:
1 Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour
1 Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
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Amateur