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Nickname
  
Scruffy

Masters Tournament
  
DNP

Weight
  
77 kg

Nationality
  
South Africa

Name
  
Simon Hobday

Champions tour
  
5


Turned professional
  
1969

Role
  
Golfer

European tour
  
2

Other
  
4

Height
  
1.8 m

Professional wins
  
17

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Full name
  
Simon Forbes Newbold Hobday

Born
  
23 June 1940 (age 83) Mafikeng, South Africa (
1940-06-23
)

Former tours
  
Sunshine Tour, PGA European Tour, Champions Tour

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Simon Forbes Newbold Hobday (23 June 1940 – 2 March 2017) was a South African professional golfer who won tournaments on three continents.

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Hobday was born in Mafikeng. He lived part of his life in Zambia and represented the country in the 1966 Eisenhower Trophy. He also lived in Rhodesia.

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Hobday turned professional in 1969. He spent his regular career mainly on the Southern Africa Tour, where he won six times and the European Tour, where he won the 1976 German Open and the 1979 Madrid Open. As a senior, he played mainly in the United States on the Senior PGA Tour (now Champions Tour), where he claimed five titles between 1993 and 1995 including one senior major, the 1994 U.S. Senior Open.

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Southern Africa Tour wins (6)

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  • 1971 South African Open
  • 1978 Rhodesian Dunlop Masters
  • 1978 Victoria Falls Classic
  • 1979 Rhodesian Open
  • 1981 ICL International
  • 1985 Trustbank Tournament of Champions
  • Senior PGA Tour wins (5)

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    Senior PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

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    Senior major championship is shown in bold.

    Other senior wins (4)

  • 1997/98 Vodacom Senior Classic (South Africa)
  • 2001 Nelson Mandela Invitational (with Martin Maritz), Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Legendary Division (with Jim Albus)
  • 2003 Nelson Mandela Invitational (with Lee Westwood)
  • Team appearances

    Amateur

  • Eisenhower Trophy (representing Zambia): 1966
  • Professional

  • Double Diamond International (representing the Rest of the World): 1976, 1977
  • References

    Simon Hobday Wikipedia