Full name Justin Richard Hobday Masters Tournament DNP Height 1.85 m Former tours PGA European Tour Other 2 Role Golfer Residence Pretoria, South Africa | Turned professional 1985 Name Justin Hobday Current tours Sunshine Tour Nationality South Africa U.S. Open DNP Weight 90 kg Professional wins 13 | |
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Born 12 August 1963 (age 60)
Bishops Stortford, England ( 1963-08-12 ) | ||
Justin Richard Hobday (born 12 August 1963) is a South African professional golfer who has won eleven official money events on the Sunshine Tour.
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Hobday was born in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, and is the nephew of golfer Simon Hobday, twice winner on the European Tour.
Hobday turned professional in 1985 and joined the Southern Africa Tour, now the Sunshine Tour. He was awarded the Bobby Locke Trophy as the Rookie of the Year in 1986, and went on to win his first event in 1989. He would win ten more tournaments official money events on the tour between then and 2001.
Between 1987 and 2002, Hobday competed also on the European Tour, where he had a best finish of 92nd place on the Order of Merit in 1992, with a tournament best of third in the Peugeot Spanish Open that same year.