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George Coetzee
South African professional golfer
South African professional golfer
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | George Coetzee |
| image | 23 BMW International Open bei Muenchen George Coetzee.JPG |
| imagesize | 200px |
| caption | Coetzee at the 2011 BMW International Open |
| fullname | George William Coetzee |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Pretoria, South Africa |
| death_date | |
| height | |
| weight | 95 kg |
| nationality | |
| residence | Pretoria, South Africa |
| yearpro | 2007 |
| tour | Sunshine Tour |
| extour | European Tour |
| Canadian Tour | |
| prowins | 17 |
| pgawins | |
| eurowins | 5 |
| japwins | |
| asiawins | 1 |
| sunwins | 15 |
| auswins | |
| nwidewins | |
| chalwins | |
| champwins | |
| seneurowins | |
| otherwins | 1 |
| majorwins | |
| masters | CUT: 2013 |
| usopen | T56: 2013 |
| open | 15th: 2011 |
| pga | T7: 2015 |
| wghofid | |
| wghofyear | |
| award1 | Sunshine Tour |
| Order of Merit winner | |
| year1 | 2015, 2017–18 |
| awardssection |
Canadian Tour Order of Merit winner](sunshine-tour-order-of-merit-winners) George William Coetzee (born 18 July 1986) is a South African professional golfer. He has won five tournaments on the European Tour and 14 on the Sunshine Tour, where he has also topped the Order of Merit on two occasions.
Early life
Coetzee was born in Pretoria and matriculated from the Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool in 2004. He started playing golf when he was 10 and won the first junior tournament he ever played in, shooting 49 in 9 holes. He finished 4th and 8th in the Callaway Junior World Championship in San Diego, where he attended the University of San Diego for one semester. He turned professional in 2007.
Professional career
Having turned professional, Coetzee joined the Sunshine Tour in 2007. He claimed his first win during his rookie season, in the Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour event at Selborne. His second and third wins came a year later at the SAA Pro-Am Invitational, and the Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour event at Humewood.
He earned a European Tour card for the 2010 season through the qualifying school, but had to return to qualifying school at the end of the season after finishing 126th on the Order of Merit and recording only two top-10 finishes. Coetzee regained his playing rights in 2011. He had a runner-up placing at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, where he lost out to Thomas Bjorn on the fifth extra hole of a five-man playoff. He also had three third-place finishes at other tournaments and eight top-10s overall. Coetzee finished the season ranked 26th on the Race to Dubai. The following season, 2012, he finished 21st on the Race to Dubai and reached the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking.
In February 2014, Coetzee won his maiden European Tour title in his 107th start with a three stroke victory at the Joburg Open. He came from four strokes behind in the final round with a six under par 66 to claim victory. Coetzee won his second European Tour title at the Tshwane Open in March 2015, by a single stroke over Jacques Blaauw. In May 2015, Coetzee won his second tournament of the year at the inaugural AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, defeating Thorbjørn Olesen in a sudden-death playoff, at the second extra hole with a birdie on the par-five 18th hole. He won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit that season.
In February 2016, Coetzee won the Dimension Data Pro-Am finishing birdie-birdie-eagle to defeat Dean Burmester by a single stroke. In July 2017, Alan Burns, who had been Coetzee's caddie since 2010, took another opportunity with another South African golfer Brandon Stone. Coetzee won his second Sunshine Tour Order of Merit title in 2017–18; during the season he won the co-sanctioned Tshwane Open, his fourth European Tour victory.
In September 2020, Coetzee won his fifth tournament on the European Tour at the Portugal Masters. This was his first win in mainland Europe and his first European Tour win that was not co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour.
Amateur wins
- 2006 Northern Amateur Open
Professional wins (17)
European Tour wins (5)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| victory | Runner(s)-up | |||||
| 1 | 9 Feb 2014 | Joburg Open1 | 65-68-69-66=268 | −19 | 3 strokes | ENG Tyrrell Hatton, KOR Jin Jeong, |
| ZAF Justin Walters | ||||||
| 2 | 15 Mar 2015 | Tshwane Open1 | 67-66-68-65=266 | −14 | 1 stroke | ZAF Jacques Blaauw |
| 3 | 10 May 2015 | AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open1,2 | 70-67-65-69=271 | −13 | Playoff | DNK Thorbjørn Olesen |
| 4 | 4 Mar 2018 | Tshwane Open1 (2) | 67-64-68-67=266 | −18 | 2 strokes | ENG Sam Horsfield |
| 5 | 13 Sep 2020 | Portugal Masters | 66-70-66-66=268 | −16 | 2 strokes | ENG Laurie Canter |
1Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour
2Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour
European Tour playoff record (1–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2011 | Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles | DNK Thomas Bjørn, ENG Mark Foster, | |
| ESP Pablo Larrazábal, AUT Bernd Wiesberger | Bjørn won with birdie on fifth extra hole | |||
| Foster eliminated by par on fourth hole | ||||
| Larrazábal eliminated by par on second hole | ||||
| Wiesberger eliminated by par on first hole | ||||
| 2 | 2015 | AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open | DNK Thorbjørn Olesen | Won with birdie on second extra hole |
Sunshine Tour wins (15)
| Legend |
|---|
| Playoff events (1) |
| Other Sunshine Tour (14) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| victory | Runner(s)-up | |||||
| 1 | 15 Jun 2007 | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Selborne | 70-71-66=207 | −9 | 2 strokes | ZAF Ulrich van den Berg |
| 2 | 23 Aug 2008 | SAA Pro-Am Invitational | 72-66-69=207 | −9 | 3 strokes | ZAF Warren Abery, SCO Doug McGuigan |
| 3 | 19 Sep 2008 | Vodacom Origins of Golf (2) at Humewood | 71-68-73=212 | −4 | 1 stroke | ZAF Jean Hugo |
| 4 | 27 Feb 2011 | Telkom PGA Championship | 65-64-68-64=261 | −27 | 2 strokes | ZAF Neil Schietekat |
| 5 | 9 Feb 2014 | Joburg Open1 | 65-68-69-66=268 | −19 | 3 strokes | ENG Tyrrell Hatton, KOR Jin Jeong, |
| ZAF Justin Walters | ||||||
| 6 | 15 Mar 2015 | Tshwane Open1 | 67-66-68-65=266 | −14 | 1 stroke | ZAF Jacques Blaauw |
| 7 | 10 May 2015 | AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open1,2 | 70-67-65-69=271 | −13 | Playoff | DNK Thorbjørn Olesen |
| 8 | 21 Feb 2016 | Dimension Data Pro-Am | 68-70-64-66=268 | −21 | 1 stroke | ZAF Dean Burmester |
| 9 | 4 Mar 2018 | Tshwane Open1 (2) | 67-64-68-67=266 | −18 | 2 strokes | ENG Sam Horsfield |
| 10 | 2 Nov 2019 | Vodacom Origins of Golf Final (3) | 61-69-66=196 | −20 | 3 strokes | ZAF M. J. Viljoen |
| 11 | 4 Sep 2020 | Titleist Championship | 67-70-66=203 | −13 | 4 strokes | ZAF Tristen Strydom |
| 12 | 6 Aug 2021 | Vodacom Origins of Golf (4) at De Zalze | 63-66-69=198 | −18 | 3 strokes | ZAF Jaco Ahlers, ZAF Tristen Strydom |
| 13 | 6 Aug 2022 | Vodacom Origins of Golf (5) at De Zalze | 61-67-67=195 | −21 | 2 strokes | ENG Joe Long |
| 14 | 6 Nov 2022 | PGA Championship (2) | 67-71-67-68=273 | −15 | 3 strokes | ZAF Casey Jarvis |
| 15 | 23 Mar 2025 | Serengeti Playoffs | 65-66-69-69=269 | −19 | 3 strokes | ZAF Daniel van Tonder |
1Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
2Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour
Sunshine Tour playoff record (1–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2015 | AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open | DNK Thorbjørn Olesen | Won with birdie on second extra hole |
| 2 | 2025 | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Devonvale | ZAF Jacques Kruyswijk | Lost to par on second extra hole |
Other wins (1)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| victory | Runners-up | ||||
| 1 | 13 Nov 2011 | Gary Player Invitational | |||
| (with ENG Mark James) | 64-61=125 | −19 | 4 strokes | ZAF Jaco van Zyl and WAL Ian Woosnam |
Results in major championships
Results not in chronological order in 2020.
| Tournament | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | CUT | |||||||
| U.S. Open | CUT | T56 | T70 | CUT | ||||
| The Open Championship | 15 | CUT | T71 | 18 | CUT | CUT | CUT | |
| PGA Championship | CUT | CUT | CUT | T7 | T60 |
| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | |||
| PGA Championship | CUT | ||
| U.S. Open | |||
| The Open Championship | NT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
Summary
| Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made | Totals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||
| U.S. Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| The Open Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 |
- Most consecutive cuts made – 2 (2013 U.S. Open – 2013 Open Championship)
- Longest streak of top-10s – 1
Results in World Golf Championships
Results not in chronological order prior to 2015.
| Tournament | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship | T53 | T16 | 57 | T56 | ||||
| Match Play | R64 | R64 | R16 | T17 | ||||
| Invitational | T21 | |||||||
| Champions | T56 | 74 | T12 | T40 | T50 |
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
Team appearances
Professional
References
References
- McEwan, Michael. (10 February 2014). "Coetzee wins maiden title at last".
- (29 July 2016). "Who's That Caddie: PGA Championship".
- (13 September 2020). "South African George Coetzee wins Portugal Masters". Associated Press.
- (10 April 2006). "Coetzee takes Northern Amateur". South African Golf Association.
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