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Darren Fichardt

Darren Fichardt
— Golfer —
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Personal information
Full name Darren Clive Fichardt
Born (1975-05-13) 13 May 1975 (age 41)
Pretoria, South Africa
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)
Nationality  South Africa
Residence Centurion, South Africa
Spouse Natasha (m. 2000)
Children Ethan, Tristan
Career
Turned professional 1994
Current tour(s) European Tour
Sunshine Tour
Professional wins 19
Number of wins by tour
European Tour 4
Sunshine Tour 14 (10th all time)
Other 2
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament DNP
U.S. Open CUT: 2007
The Open Championship CUT: 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010
PGA Championship DNP
Achievements and awards
Southern Africa Tour
Order of Merit winner
1999/00, 2003/04

Darren Clive Fichardt (born 13 May 1975) is a South African professional golfer who plays on both the European and Sunshine Tours.

Fichardt was born in Pretoria and grew up in Centurion, Gauteng. He attended Sutherland High School from 1988 to 1993, where his talent for golf was nurtured. He turned professional in 1994 and he won the Southern Africa Tour (now the Sunshine Tour) Order of Merit in 1999/2000 and 2003/04.

Fichardt partnered Retief Goosen in South Africa's WGC-World Cup team in 2000.

Fichardt has played on the European Tour since 2001 and has won four European Tour events. His best year-end ranking on the Order of Merit is 39th achieved in 2003.

In 2012, Fichardt ended a nine-year title drought on the European Tour when he won the Saint-Omer Open by three strokes from Gary Lockerbie. This victory earned him his third European Tour title.

Fichardt followed this up in the 2013 season, when he won the Africa Open in his native South Africa in February. He claimed his fourth European Tour title by two strokes over Grégory Bourdy and Jaco van Zyl.

European Tour playoff record (1–1)

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


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