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Nationality
  
Zimbabwe

Masters Tournament
  
CUT: 1993

Weight
  
68 kg

Residence
  
Sunningdale, England

Name
  
Tony Johnstone

Turned professional
  
1979

Role
  
Golfer

European seniors tour
  
2

Professional wins
  
25

Height
  
1.74 m


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Full name
  
Anthony Alastair Johnstone

Born
  
2 May 1956 (age 68) Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (
1956-05-02
)

Education
  
Christian Brothers College, Bulawayo

Former tours
  
PGA European Tour, Sunshine Tour

Current tours
  
European Senior Tour

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Anthony Alastair Johnstone (born 2 May 1956) is a Zimbabwean professional golfer.

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Johnstone was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and attended Christian Brothers College. He lives in Sunningdale in England. He turned professional in 1979 and has spent his career playing mainly on the Southern African Sunshine Tour and in Europe. He won six times on the European Tour and finished a career best seventh on the European Tour Order of Merit in 1992. His most prestigious win came at the 1992 British PGA Championship. He won seventeen times on the Sunshine Tour, including one co-sanctioned event also included in his European Tour win tally, and he topped that tour's Order of Merit in 1988/89 and 1993/94. He has represented Zimbabwe in international competition many times.

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In 2004 Johnstone was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, possibly ending his playing career. With a revolutionary drug treatment, he appears to have put his MS in remission and made his European Seniors Tour debut shortly after turning fifty in 2006. In 2008 he won his first EST event, the Jersey Seniors Classic. He won his second event on the Senior tour in 2009 at the Travis Perkins plc Senior Masters.

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Johnstone is noted for his excellent short game and topped the European Tour's short game statistics in 1998, 1999 and 2000. He has also worked as a golf broadcaster.

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Television work

  • Johnstone currently works for Sky Sports as golf commentator. He was also a presenter for television series called Bush Hacking. Three seasons were produced which were filmed in the Kruger Park and Shamwari in South Africa. The two minute episodes were broadcast as fillers during live golf coverage on Sky Sports and also broadcast on SuperGolf on SuperSport.
  • European Tour wins (6)

    1 Co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Tour

    European Tour playoff record (1–4)

    Sunshine Tour wins (17)

  • 1984 South African Open, Charity Classic, South African Masters
  • 1986 Goodyear Classic
  • 1987 ICL International, Minolta Copiers Match Play, Wild Coast Classic
  • 1988 ICL International, Minolta Copiers Match Play, Bloemfontein Classic
  • 1989 South African PGA Championship
  • 1990 Palabora Classic
  • 1993 South African Masters, Zimbabwe Open, Philips South African Open (Dec.)
  • 1994 Bell's Cup
  • 1998 Alfred Dunhill South African PGA Championship1
  • 1 (Co-sanctioned with the European Tour)

    Other wins

  • 2009 Gary Player Invitational (with Ángel Cabrera)
  • Results in major championships

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

    Team appearances

    Amateur

  • Eisenhower Trophy (representing Rhodesia): 1976
  • Professional

  • Hennessy Cognac Cup (representing the Rest of the World): 1982
  • Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
  • World Cup (representing Zimbabwe): 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
  • Alfred Dunhill Challenge (representing Southern Africa): 1995 (winners)
  • References

    Tony Johnstone Wikipedia


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