Dale Hayes
| Dale Hayes | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Dale Hayes |
| Born |
1 July 1952 Pretoria, South Africa |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight | 276 lb (125 kg; 19.7 st) |
| Nationality |
 South Africa
|
| Residence | Sandton, South Africa |
| Career | |
| College | None |
| Turned professional | 1970 |
| Former tour(s) |
Sunshine Tour European Tour |
| Professional wins | 21 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| European Tour | 4 |
| Sunshine Tour | 13 (T10th all time) |
| Other | 2 |
| Best results in major championships |
|
| Masters Tournament | T19: 1976 |
| U.S. Open | DNP |
| The Open Championship | T11: 1978 |
| PGA Championship | DNP |
| Achievements and awards | |
| European Tour Order of Merit winner |
1975 |
Dale Hayes (born 1 July 1952) is a South African professional golfer.
Hayes won the 15–17 Boys category at the Junior World Golf Championships in 1969. He turned professional the following year and quickly became a successful pro. He won more than a dozen events in South Africa, and was runner up on the South African Tour Order of Merit in 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1979. In 1974 he won the World Cup of Golf for South Africa in partnership with Bobby Cole.
In 1971 Hayes won the Spanish Open at the age of 18 years and 290 days, becoming the youngest winner on the European Tour, a record which stood until Danny Lee won the 2009 Johnnie Walker Classic. By 1973 he was fourth on the European Tour Order of Merit, improving to second in 1974 and first in 1975. He also finished in the top four in 1978 and 1979, but played little professional golf after his late twenties.
Since he stopped playing tour golf Hayes has remained involved in the sport in a variety of ways. He has worked as a broadcaster in South Africa and for the Golf Channel, started and edited a golf magazine and helped to found an internet golf shopping business. He is involved in golf course design through a company called Matkovich & Hayes, although he deals only with marketing and public relations, while the actual design is handled by his business partner Peter Matkovic, a professional golfer with a modest playing record. Hayes also works as a public speaker and gives golf clinics.
European Tour playoff record (0–1)
Note: Hayes never played in the U.S. Open nor the PGA Championship.
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.
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