Darren Fichardt | |
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— Golfer — | |
Personal information | |
Full name | Darren Clive Fichardt |
Born |
Pretoria, South Africa |
13 May 1975
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 |
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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.