Darren Fichardt

Darren Fichardt
Personal information
Full name	Darren Clive Fichardt
Born	13 May 1975 (1975-05-13) (age 36) Pretoria, South Africa
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	75 kg (170 lb; 11.8 st)
Nationality	South Africa
Residence	Centurion, South Africa
Career
Turned professional	November 1994
Current tour(s)	European Tour Sunshine Tour
Professional wins	16
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	2
Sunshine Tour	12
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.

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.

He has played on the European Tour since 2001 and has won two European Tour events. His best year-end ranking on the Order of Merit through 2006 is 39th in 2003.

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

Amateur wins

• 1992 Northern Transvaal Junior Championship (South Africa)
• 1993 Northern Transvaal Stroke Play Championship (South Africa)

Professional wins (16)

European Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	25 Mar 2001	Sao Paulo Brazil Open	-18 (67-61-67=195)	5 strokes	José Coceres, Richard S. Johnson, Brett Rumford
2	16 Mar 2003	Qatar Masters	-13 (71-69-66-69=275)	Playoff	James Kingston

Sunshine Tour wins (12)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	21 Sep 1997	Bearing Man Highveld Classic	-16 (65-66-69=200)	1 stroke	Sean Pappas
2	25 Feb 2001	The Tour Championship	-14 (66-69-67-68=270)	4 strokes	Hennie Otto
3	25 Nov 2001	CABS/Old Mutual Zimbabwe Open	-13 (68-69-69-69=275)	3 strokes	Mark Murless, Bradford Vaughan
4	1 Feb 2004	Dimension Data Pro-Am	-10 (72-69-69-68=278)	2 strokes	Nick Price, Ulrich van den Berg
5	6 Oct 2006	Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour Final	-4 (71-69-72=212)	1 stroke	Alex Haindl
6	15 Oct 2006	Bearing Man Highveld Classic	-12 (66-67-71=204)	Playoff	Alex Haindl
7	1 Feb 2009	Nashua Masters	-17 (66-67-65-65=263)	1 stroke	Marc Cayeux
8	18 Sep 2009	Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour (Selborne)	-18 (65-66-67=198)	7 strokes	Keenan Davidse, Jbe' Kruger
9	31 Oct 2009	Platinum Classic	-15 (70-65-66=201)	1 stroke	Titch Moore
10	14 Feb 2010	Dimension Data Pro-Am	-16 (66-68-71-68=273)	1 stroke	Louis Oosthuizen
11	12 Aug 2011	Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour (Wild Coast)	-6 (73-67-64=204)	1 stroke	David Hewan
12	22 Oct 2011	Suncoast Classic	-13 (70-65-68=204)	6 strokes	Ulrich van den Berg

Other wins (2)

• 1999 Sun City Pro-Am, PGA's Cup (both unofficial money on the Southern Africa Tour)

Results in major championships

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT	DNP	CUT	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	2010
The Masters	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP

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

Team appearance

• World Cup: 2000 (with Retief Goosen)

See also

• Golfers with most Sunshine Tour wins

External links

• Darren Fichardt at the Sunshine Tour official site
• Darren Fichardt at the European Tour official site
• Darren Fichardt at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

Persondata
Name	Fichardt, Darren
Alternative names	Fichardt, Darren Clive
Short description	Professional golfer
Date of birth	13 May 1975
Place of birth	Pretoria, South Africa
Date of death
Place of death