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John Fourie
Professional golfer

John Fourie

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Jonathan Adriaan Fourie (born 23 August 1939) is a South African professional golfer.
Fourie was born in Johannesburg. He turned professional in 1970 and spent his career playing mainly on the Southern Africa Tour and the European Tour. He won ten times on the Southern Africa Tour, including one win as an amateur. In Europe he won the 1977 Callers of Newcastle tournament and twice finished in the top twenty on the European Tour Order of Merit. He joined the European Seniors Tour in its 1992 debut season, and won the Senior British Open and the Belfast Telegraph Irish Senior Masters on his way to winning that tour's order of merit. He continued to play on the seniors tour into his mid sixties.

Professional wins (13)

Southern Africa Tour wins (10)

  • 1970 South African Masters (as an amateur)
  • 1972 State Mines Open
  • 1973 TVL Open
  • 1974 Dunlop Masters, Western Province Open, Rothmans Medal, Vavasseur International
  • 1975 Natal Open
  • 1977 Newcastle Open, Botswana Pro-Am Open

European Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning ScoreMargin of
Victory
Runners-up
131 Jul 1977Callers of Newcastle−6 (66-71-74-71=282)PlayoffEngland Peter Butler, Spain Ángel Gallardo,
England Tommy Horton

European Seniors Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
126 Jul 1992Senior British Open−2 (75-67-71-69=282)3 strokesNew Zealand Bob Charles, England Neil Coles
223 Aug 1992Belfast Telegraph Irish Senior Masters(71-70-69=210)4 strokesSouth Africa Vincent Tshabalala

Results in major championships

Tournament19711972197319741975197619771978
Masters TournamentDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNP
U.S. OpenDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNP
The Open ChampionshipCUTDNPT49T59DNPT15T22CUT
PGA ChampionshipDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNP

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

Team appearances

Amateur

  • Eisenhower Trophy (representing South Africa): 1966, 1968, 1970

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