Tim Clark (golfer)

Tim Clark
Nation:	South Africa
Nickname:	Penguin
Career data
Professional since:	1998
Current tour:	PGA TOUR , Sunshine Tour
Tournament wins:	14th

Tim Clark ( Timothy Henry Clark ; born December 17, 1975 in Durban ) is a South African professional golfer of the North American PGA TOUR .

Career

His father taught him to play golf at the age of three. In 1994 he played in the South African team in the Eisenhower Trophy . Later in the United States, he attended North Carolina State University and had a successful career as a college golfer. Clark won the US Amateur Public Links Championship in 1997 , qualified for the 1998 Masters in Augusta and then started his professional career.

He first tried his hand at the regional Canadian Tour , where he won twice, then played on the Buy.com Tour (second performance level) and qualified after two tournament victories for the 2001 season on the top-ranking PGA TOUR . Because of a wrist injury and subsequent surgery, Clark was only able to take part in three tournaments in his first season. But he was allowed to stay on the tour by means of a medically justified exception to play. Clark has not yet won a PGA Tour event, but has drawn attention to himself with three top 3 placements in majors - most recently a second place at the Masters 2006. He also won three tournaments that are part of the European Tour the money list of the Sunshine Tour in the 2001/02 season, and was temporarily among the top 50 in the golf world rankings . In May 2010, Clark won the Players Championship , which is his most significant success to date.

Tim Clark played in the international team at the Presidents Cup several times and represented his country at the WGC World Cup in 2002 and 2005.

His caddy , Gary Matthews, is an excellent golfer himself who wins the off-tour caddy championships in series.

Clark is based in Scottsdale , Arizona .

Tournament victories

• 1998 Brunswick Open (Canada), Canadian PGA Championship
• 2000 Buy.com Fort Smith Classic, Buy.com Boise Open (both Buy.com Tour )
• 2002 Bell's South African Open (joint event of European Tour and Sunshine Tour )
• 2005 South African Airways Open (joint event by European Tour and Sunshine Tour), Barclays Scottish Open (European Tour), Nelson Mandela Invitational (unofficial event in South Africa; with Vincent Tshabalala ), Tommy Bahama Challenge (with Geoff Ogilvy , Kevin Na , Justin Rose ; unofficial event)
• 2006 CVS / pharmacy Charity Classic (with Nick Price ; unofficial event)
• 2008 Australian Open ( PGA Tour of Australasia )
• 2010 Players Championship ( PGA Tour )
• 2012 Gary Player Invitational (with Kenny Dalglish, Alex Maditsi, Doug Jackson; unofficial Sunshine Tour event)
• 2014 RBC Canadian Open (PGA Tour)

Participation in team competitions

• WGC World Cup (for South Africa): 2002, 2005
• Presidents Cup (International Team): 2003, 2005, 2009

Results at major championships

competition	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Masters	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T13	CUT	T39	2	T13	CUT	T13	CUT	CUT	CUT
US Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	T13	T3	CUT	T17	T48	T40	T12	DNP	CUT
Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	CUT	T23	T56	DNP	CUT	CUT	CUT	DNP	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T53	3	CUT	T17	T24	CUT	T55	T16	T39	DNP	T11

competition	2013	2014	2015
Masters	T11	CUT	DNP
US Open	CUT	DNP	DNP
Open Championship	T44	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	T68	CUT	CUT

DNP = not participated
CUT = Cut not made
"T" split placement
Green background for victories
Yellow background for top 10

Web links

• Player profile at the PGA Tour (English)
• Player profile at the Sunshine Tour (English)
• Tournament results of the last two years on the Official World Golf Ranking Website (English)