David Frost (golfer)

David Frost
Personal information
Full name	David Laurence Frost
Born	11 September 1959 (1959-09-11) Cape Town, South Africa
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	92 kg (200 lb; 14.5 st)
Nationality	South Africa
Residence	Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Career
Turned professional	1981
Current tour(s)	European Seniors Tour Champions Tour
Former tour(s)	European Tour PGA Tour Sunshine Tour
Professional wins	25
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	10
European Tour	2
Japan Golf Tour	1
Sunshine Tour	6
Champions Tour	1
European Seniors Tour	1
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	T5: 1995
U.S. Open	T15: 1986
The Open Championship	6th: 1987
PGA Championship	T10: 1987
Achievements and awards
Sunshine Tour Order of Merit winner	1998/99
Byron Nelson Award	1987

David Laurence Frost (born 11 September 1959) is a South African professional golfer who has more than twenty professional tournament wins to his name, spread across four continents.

Frost was born in Cape Town, South Africa and matriculated at Paarl Boys' High School in 1977. He turned professional in 1981. He used to be a cigarette salesman. He scored his first professional win in his home country in 1983 and has continued to play in South Africa in the northern winter, but like other leading South African golfers he has spent far more time playing internationally. In line with many other Commonwealth golfers his first move abroad was to the European Tour and he played that tour from 1982 to 1984.

From 1985 he was primarily on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, where he went on to win ten tournaments, the most prestigious of which was the 1989 NEC World Series of Golf which he won by defeating Ben Crenshaw at the second playoff hole. He made the top ten on the PGA Tour money list twice, placing 9th in 1988 and 5th in 1993 and was ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 86 weeks between 1988 and 1994. By his forties, he was no longer a regular contender on the tour, but in 2005 he set the all time PGA Tour 72-hole putting record with 92 putts at the MCI Heritage while finishing only tied 38th.

Since 2007 Frost has re-established his career on the European Tour.

Frost won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit in 1998/99. He was a member of the International Team in the first staging of the Presidents Cup in 1994, and took part again in 1996. In 1997 and 1998 he captained South Africa to victory in the Alfred Dunhill Cup in Scotland. His team mates were Ernie Els and Retief Goosen.

Frost owns a wine business which produces vintages named after golf legends such as Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.

Professional wins (25)

PGA Tour wins (10)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Oct 2, 1988	Southern Open	-10 (70-68-65-67=270)	Playoff	Bob Tway
2	Nov 6, 1988	Northern Telecom Tucson Open	-2 (71-69-70-76=286)	5 strokes	Mark Calcavecchia, Mark O'Meara
3	Aug 27, 1989	NEC World Series of Golf	-4 (70-68-69-69=276)	Playoff	Ben Crenshaw,
4	Apr 29, 1990	USF&G Classic	-12 (71-70-66-69=276)	1 stroke	Greg Norman
5	Jun 28, 1992	Buick Classic	-16 (67-68-67-66=268)	8 strokes	Duffy Waldorf
6	Sep 20, 1992	Hardee's Golf Classic	-14 (62-68-64-72=266)	3 strokes	Tom Lehman, Loren Roberts
7	Sep 12, 1993	Canadian Open	-9 (72-70-69-68=279)	1 stroke	Fred Couples
8	Sep 19, 1993	Hardee's Golf Classic	-21 (68-63-64-64=259)	7 strokes	Payne Stewart, D. A. Weibring
9	Jun 26, 1994	Canon Greater Hartford Open	-12 (65-68-66-69=268)	1 stroke	Greg Norman,
10	May 25, 1997	MasterCard Colonial	-15 (66-63-69-67=265)	2 strokes	Brad Faxon, David Ogrin

Sunshine Tour wins (6)

• 1983 Gordon's Gin Classic (South Africa)
• 1986 Southern Suns South African Open, South African Masters
• 1987 Safmarine Masters
• 1994 Lexington South African PGA Championship
• 1999 Mercedes-Benz - Vodacom South African Open (co-sanctioned with the European Tour)

European Tour wins (2)

• 1984 Compagnie de Chauffe Cannes Open
• 1999 Mercedes-Benz - Vodacom South African Open (co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Tour)

Japan Golf Tour wins (1)

• 1992 Dunlop Phoenix

Other wins (5)

• 1989 Million Dollar Challenge (South Africa - unofficial event)
• 1990 Million Dollar Challenge (South Africa - unofficial event)
• 1992 Million Dollar Challenge (South Africa - unofficial event)
• 1993 Hong Kong Open
• 1994 Hong Kong Open

Champions Tour wins (1)

• 2010 3M Championship

European Seniors Tour (1)

• 2011 Mauritius Commercial Bank Open (2010 calender year)

Results in major championships

Tournament	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T45	8	T18
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	T23	T15	T17	CUT	T18
The Open Championship	CUT	T47	T28	CUT	6	T7	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	CUT	T21	T10	CUT	T27

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
The Masters	CUT	T32	DNP	CUT	T35	T5	T10	37	T26	DNP
U.S. Open	T33	CUT	DNP	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT	CUT	DNP	T24	T51	T31	T40	CUT	T42	T7
PGA Championship	T31	T48	T73	CUT	T25	T67	CUT	CUT	T56	T21

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	CUT	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
The Open Championship	T55	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	T15	DNP	CUT	T51	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

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

Team appearances

• Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing South Africa): 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 (winners), 1998 (winners)
• World Cup of Golf (representing South Africa): 1998, 1999
• Presidents Cup (International Team): 1994, 1996

See also

• Golfers with most PGA Tour wins
• Golfers with most Sunshine Tour wins

External links

• David Frost at the PGA Tour official site
• David Frost at the European Tour official site
• David Frost at the Sunshine Tour official site
• David Frost at the Japan Golf Tour official site
• David Frost Wines