Simon Hobday
| Simon Hobday | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Simon Forbes Newbold Hobday |
| Nickname | Scruffy |
| Born |
23 June 1940 Mafikeng, South Africa |
| Died | 2 March 2017 (aged 76) |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg; 12 st) |
| Nationality |
 South Africa
|
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1969 |
| Former tour(s) |
Sunshine Tour European Tour Champions Tour |
| Professional wins | 17 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| European Tour | 2 |
| Sunshine Tour | 6 |
| PGA Tour Champions | 5 |
| Other | 4 |
| Best results in major championships |
|
| Masters Tournament | DNP |
| U.S. Open | CUT: 1995 |
| The Open Championship | T19: 1983 |
| PGA Championship | DNP |
Simon Forbes Newbold Hobday (23 June 1940 – 2 March 2017) was a South African professional golfer who won tournaments on three continents.
Hobday was born in Mafikeng. He lived part of his life in Zambia and represented the country in the 1966 Eisenhower Trophy. He also lived in Rhodesia.
Hobday turned professional in 1969. He spent his regular career mainly on the Southern Africa Tour, where he won six times and the European Tour, where he won the 1976 German Open and the 1979 Madrid Open. As a senior, he played mainly in the United States on the Senior PGA Tour (now Champions Tour), where he claimed five titles between 1993 and 1995 including one senior major, the 1994 U.S. Senior Open.
Senior PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)
Senior major championship is shown in bold.
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