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Full name
  
Dale Hayes

Other
  
2

Height
  
1.91 m

Professional wins
  
21

Turned professional
  
1970

Role
  
Golfer

European tour
  
4

College
  
None

Name
  
Dale Hayes

Residence
  
Sandton, South Africa

Nationality
  
South Africa

Masters Tournament
  
T19: 1976

Weight
  
125 kg


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Born
  
1 July 1952 (age 71) Pretoria, South Africa (
1952-07-01
)

Former tours
  

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Dale Hayes (born 1 July 1952) is a South African professional golfer.

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Career outline

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Hayes won the 15–17 Boys category at the Junior World Golf Championships in 1969. He turned professional the following year and quickly became a successful pro. He won more than a dozen events in South Africa, and was runner up on the South African Tour Order of Merit in 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1979. In 1974 he won the World Cup of Golf for South Africa in partnership with Bobby Cole.

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In 1971 Hayes won the Spanish Open at the age of 18 years and 290 days, becoming the youngest winner on the European Tour, a record which stood until Danny Lee won the 2009 Johnnie Walker Classic. By 1973 he was fourth on the European Tour Order of Merit, improving to second in 1974 and first in 1975. He also finished in the top four in 1978 and 1979, but played little professional golf after his late twenties.

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Since he stopped playing tour golf Hayes has remained involved in the sport in a variety of ways. He has worked as a broadcaster in South Africa and for the Golf Channel, started and edited a golf magazine and helped to found an internet golf shopping business. He is involved in golf course design through a company called Matkovich & Hayes, although he deals only with marketing and public relations, while the actual design is handled by his business partner Peter Matkovic, a professional golfer with a modest playing record. Hayes also works as a public speaker and gives golf clinics.

Amateur wins

  • 1969 World Junior Championship (Boys 15–17), South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship, German Amateur Championship, Brazilian Amateur Championship
  • 1970 South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship, Scottish Amateur Stroke Play Championship
  • European Tour wins (4)

    European Tour playoff record (0–1)

    South African Tour wins (13)

  • 1971 Bert Hagerman Invitational
  • 1972 Schoeman Park Open
  • 1973 Corlett Drive Classic, Rhodesian Masters, Rolux Open
  • 1974 Beck's PGA Championship, Holiday Inns Royal Swazi Sun Open
  • 1975 Beck's PGA Championship, Holiday Inns Royal Swazi Sun Open
  • 1976 BP South African Open Championship, Sportsman Lager PGA Championship
  • 1978 ICL International, Kronenbrau South African Masters
  • Other wins (4)

    This list is incomplete.
  • 1971 Spanish Open
  • 1974 Coca-Cola Young Professionals' Championship
  • 1975 T.P.D. Young Professionals' Championship
  • 1980 Columbian Open
  • Results in major championships

    Note: Hayes never played in the U.S. Open nor the PGA Championship.
    DNP = Did not play
    CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1972 Open Championship)
    "T" = tied
    Yellow background for top-10.

    Team appearances

    Amateur

  • Eisenhower Trophy (representing South Africa): 1970
  • Professional

  • World Cup (representing South Africa): 1974 (winners), 1976
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    References

    Dale Hayes Wikipedia