Charl Schwartzel
| Charl Schwartzel | |
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| — Golfer — | |
Schwartzel in 2010
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Charl Adriaan Schwartzel |
| Born |
31 August 1984 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st) |
| Nationality |
 South Africa
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| Residence |
Vereeniging, Gauteng, South Africa Manchester. England |
| Spouse | Rosalind Jacobs (m. 2010) |
| Career | |
| College | none |
| Turned professional | 2002 |
| Current tour(s) |
European Tour (joined 2002) Sunshine Tour (joined 2002) PGA Tour (joined 2011) |
| Professional wins | 15 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 2 |
| European Tour | 11 |
| Asian Tour | 1 |
| Sunshine Tour | 9 |
| Other | 1 |
| Best results in major championships (wins: 1) |
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| Masters Tournament | Won: 2011 |
| U.S. Open | 7th: 2015 |
| The Open Championship | T7: 2014 |
| PGA Championship | T12: 2011 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| Sunshine Tour Order of Merit Winner |
2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2010 |
Charl Adriaan Schwartzel (/ˈʃɑːrl ˈʃwɔːrtsəl/; born 31 August 1984) is a South African professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, European Tour, and the Sunshine Tour. He has won one major title, the Masters in 2011. Schwartzel's highest world ranking has been number six, after finishing in a tie for fourth at the WGC-Cadillac Championship in 2012.
Born in Johannesburg, Schwartzel had a dominant junior amateur career in South Africa, and won some amateur events in other countries including the 2002 Indian Amateur and English Open Stroke Play Championships. He played for South Africa in the 2002 Eisenhower Trophy.
Schwartzel turned professional at the age of eighteen and following the path of many other leading South African players, he qualified for the European Tour late that year. He was the second youngest South African golfer to do so after Dale Hayes. He earned enough money to retain his European Tour card in both 2003 and 2004.
In the 2005 season he won the Dunhill Championship, a leading tournament in South Africa that is co-sanctioned by the European Tour, and claimed first place on the Sunshine Tour's Order of Merit. In 2005 he finished 52nd on the European Tour's Order of Merit, and in 2005-06 he again topped the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit. His win at the season-ending Vodacom Tour Championship took him into the top 100 in the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time. His form continued to improve in 2006 and he finished the season placed 18th on the Order of Merit and reached as high as 55th in the World Rankings.
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