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Tim Clark (golfer)

South African professional golfer

Field	Value
name	Tim Clark
image	2009 US Open - Tim Clark (3648634699).jpg
caption	Clark at the 2009 U.S. Open
fullname	Timothy Henry Clark
nickname	Penguin
birth_date
birth_place	Durban, South Africa
death_date
height
weight	165 lb
nationality
residence	Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
spouse	Candice
children	2
college	North Carolina State University
yearpro	1998
retired
extour	European Tour
PGA Tour
Sunshine Tour
prowins	12
pgawins	2
eurowins	3
japwins
asiawins
sunwins	2
auswins	1
nwidewins	2
chalwins
champwins
seneurowins
otherwins	2
majorwins
masters	2nd: 2006
usopen	T3: 2005
open	T23: 2005
pga	3rd: 2003
wghofid
wghofyear
award1	Sunshine Tour
Order of Merit winner
year1	2001–02
awardssection

PGA Tour Sunshine Tour Order of Merit winner](sunshine-tour-order-of-merit-winners) Timothy Henry Clark (born 17 December 1975) is a South African professional golfer who formerly played on the PGA Tour. His biggest win was The Players Championship in 2010, which was also his first PGA Tour win.

Early life and amateur career

Clark was born in Durban, South Africa. He took up golf at the age of three and was taught to play by his father. He attended North Carolina State University in the United States, where he had a successful college golf career, winning ACC Player of the Year in 1997. During this time he won the 1997 U.S. Amateur Public Links to qualify for his first major, the 1998 Masters Tournament.

Professional career

Clark turned professional in 1998, and initially played on the second tier U.S. professional tour, which was then known as the Nike Tour, where he won two tournaments in 2000 to gain membership of the main PGA Tour for 2001. His 2001 campaign was cut short by a wrist injury after just three events. He made a comeback in 2002, and had the benefit of a major medical exemption which enabled him to enter enough events to comfortably regain full exemption for 2003. He captured his first PGA Tour victory at the 2010 Players Championship, becoming only the second golfer to make the Players his first Tour victory. He has had three European Tour victories. He finished sole second at the 2006 Masters Tournament and sole or tied third at the 2003 PGA Championship and the 2005 U.S. Open.

Clark was a member of the International Team, captained by fellow South African Gary Player in two of three appearances, in the 2003, 2005 and 2009 Presidents Cup. Player dubbed him the team's "bull dog" in reference to his dogged determination and refusal to give in or let go. In 2005 he reached the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time. He won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit in the 2001/02 season. He has played Gary Player's annual charity event in South Africa to help raise funds for needy children and personally paid for a little girl's cochlear ear implant so that she could hear after winning the event in 2005. In Australia for a three-tournament swing, he won the 2008 Australian Open in a playoff with Mathew Goggin when they were both tied at 9-under-par. Neither seemed to have a chance with four holes to play when David Smail led at 12-under only to double-bogey the next two holes.

In May 2009, Clark nearly had his first PGA Tour victory in hand at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, but he bogeyed the 18th hole to force a playoff. On the first hole of that playoff, he missed a 7-footer which would have given him the victory. Then, on the second playoff hole, he and Steve Marino lost to Steve Stricker. In May 2010, Clark picked up his first PGA Tour title in his 206th start, after eight runner-up finishes, at the 2010 Players Championship. Clark came from three behind with a final round 67 to win by a stroke over Robert Allenby. At the time, Clark was the highest-earning player without a win, earning $14.7 million and having eight runner-up finishes.

On 11 August 2013, in the final round of the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club, Clark made a hole-in-one on the 220-yard, par-3 11th hole. On 27 July 2014, Clark won the RBC Canadian Open, finishing one stroke ahead of Jim Furyk. This was his second PGA Tour title and first victory in more than four years. He birdied five out of the last eight holes to come from three strokes back in the final round. The win moved Clark back inside the world's top 100.

A left elbow injury hampered Clark for much of 2015 and 2016. Clark last played the 2016 CareerBuilder Challenge and has a career money list exemption available. His career earnings are over $23.9 million.

Professional wins (12)

PGA Tour wins (2)

Legend
Players Championships (1)
Other PGA Tour (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of
victory	Runner-up
1	9 May 2010	The Players Championship	−16 (68-71-66-67=272)	1 stroke	AUS Robert Allenby
2	27 Jul 2014	RBC Canadian Open	−17 (67-67-64-65=263)	1 stroke	USA Jim Furyk

PGA Tour playoff record (0–2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	2009	Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial	USA Steve Marino, USA Steve Stricker	Stricker won with birdie on second extra hole
2	2014	WGC-HSBC Champions	USA Bubba Watson	Lost to birdie on first extra hole

European Tour wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of
victory	Runner(s)-up
1	13 Jan 2002	Bell's South African Open1	−19 (66-70-68-65=269)	2 strokes	ENG Steve Webster
2	23 Jan 2005	South African Airways Open1 (2)	−15 (68-71-68-66=273)	6 strokes	FRA Grégory Havret, ZAF Charl Schwartzel
3	10 Jul 2005	Barclays Scottish Open	−19 (67-66-65-67=265)	2 strokes	NIR Darren Clarke, NLD Maarten Lafeber

1Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour

European Tour playoff record (0–2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2003	South African Airways Open	ZAF Trevor Immelman	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
2	2014	WGC-HSBC Champions	USA Bubba Watson	Lost to birdie on first extra hole

Sunshine Tour wins (2)

Legend
Flagship events (2)
Other Sunshine Tour (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of
victory	Runner(s)-up
1	13 Jan 2002	Bell's South African Open1	−19 (66-70-68-65=269)	2 strokes	ENG Steve Webster
2	23 Jan 2005	South African Airways Open1 (2)	−15 (68-71-68-66=273)	6 strokes	FRA Grégory Havret, ZAF Charl Schwartzel

1Co-sanctioned by the European Tour

Sunshine Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2003	South African Airways Open	ZAF Trevor Immelman	Lost to birdie on first extra hole

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)

Legend
Flagship events (1)
Other PGA Tour of Australasia (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of
victory	Runner-up
1	14 Dec 2008	Australian Open	−9 (70-73-69-67=279)	Playoff	AUS Mathew Goggin

PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2008	Australian Open	AUS Mathew Goggin	Won with par on first extra hole

Buy.com Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of
victory	Runner(s)-up
1	12 Aug 2000	Buy.com Fort Smith Classic	−16 (67-66-65-66=264)	3 strokes	USA Lee Rinker
2	17 Sep 2000	Buy.com Boise Open	−15 (66-67-69-67=269)	6 strokes	USA Patrick Burke, USA Steve Haskins

Canadian Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of
victory	Runner-up
1	16 Aug 1998	New Brunswick Open	−27 (63-67-67-64=261)	1 stroke	AUS David McKenzie
2	23 Aug 1998	CPGA Championship	−16 (71-70-62-69=272)	Playoff	USA Chris Tidland

Other wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score
victory	Runners-up
1	27 Nov 2005	Nelson Mandela Invitational
(with ZAF Vincent Tshabalala)	−17 (63-64=127)	4 strokes	ZAF Trevor Immelman and ZAF Gary Player
2	20 Jun 2006	CVS/pharmacy Charity Classic
(with ZIM Nick Price)	−19 (61-62=123)	Playoff	USA Brad Faxon and CAN Mike Weir

Other playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2006	CVS/pharmacy Charity Classic
(with ZIM Nick Price)	USA Brad Faxon and CAN Mike Weir	Won with birdie on second extra hole

Results in major championships

Tournament	1998	1999
Masters Tournament	CUT
U.S. Open
The Open Championship
PGA Championship

Tournament	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Masters Tournament		T13	CUT	T39	2	T13	CUT	T13
U.S. Open		CUT	T13	T3	CUT	T17	T48	T40
The Open Championship	CUT		CUT	T23	T56		CUT	CUT
PGA Championship	T53	3	CUT	T17	T24	CUT	T55	T16

Tournament	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Masters Tournament	CUT	CUT	CUT	T11	CUT
U.S. Open	T12		CUT	CUT
The Open Championship	CUT		CUT	T44
PGA Championship	T39		T11	T68	CUT	CUT

CUT = missed the half way cut

"T" indicates a tie for a place.

Summary

Tournament	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	1	0	1	1	5	13	6
U.S. Open	0	1	1	1	4	10	6
The Open Championship	0	0	0	0	1	9	3
PGA Championship	0	1	1	1	5	13	9

Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2005 Masters – 2006 Masters)
Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (three times)

The Players Championship

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	54 holes	Winning score	Margin	Runner-up
2010	The Players Championship	3 shot deficit	−16 (68-71-66-67=272)	1 stroke	AUS Robert Allenby

Results timeline

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
The Players Championship	T21	CUT	CUT	CUT	T68	CUT	T9	1	WD	T25	CUT	CUT

CUT = missed the halfway cut

WD = withdrew

"T" indicates a tie for a place.

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2013	2014
Match Play		R64		R64	R64	R32	R64	R16	R16	R16
Championship	62			T18	T26	T63	T12	27	T22	T60
Invitational		T64	T48	T51	74	T6	T20	T29	T58		T50
Champions			T25				2

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play

"T" = tied

Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

Amateur

Eisenhower Trophy (representing South Africa): 1994

Professional

World Cup (representing South Africa): 2002, 2005
Presidents Cup (International Team): 2003 (tie), 2005, 2009

References

"Past Champions – 1997: Tim Clark". USGA.
(14 December 2008). "Tim Clark wins Australian Open in Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald.
Sobel, Jason. (9 May 2010). "Clark prevails for maiden victory". [[ESPN]].
Marchesan, John. (27 July 2014). "Tim Clark defeats Jim Furyk". The Globe and Mail.

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