Tony Johnstone

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Tony Johnstone
Personal information
Full name Anthony Alastair Johnstone
Born 2 May 1956 (1956-05-02) (age 55)
Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Nationality  Zimbabwe
Residence Sunningdale, England
Career
Turned professional 1979
Current tour(s) European Seniors Tour
Former tour(s) European Tour
Sunshine Tour
Professional wins 26
Number of wins by tour
European Tour 6
Sunshine Tour 17
European Seniors Tour 2
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament CUT: 1993
U.S. Open T77: 1993
The Open Championship T34: 1992
PGA Championship CUT: 1992, 1993, 1994
Achievements and awards
Southern Africa Tour
Order of Merit winner		 1988/89, 1993/94

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

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.

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.[1] In 2008 he won his first EST event, the Jersey Seniors Classic.[2] He won his second event on the Seniors tour in 2009 at the Travis Perkins plc Senior Masters.

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.

Contents

[edit] Professional wins (26)

[edit] European Tour (6)

[edit] Sunshine Tour (17)

[edit] Other wins

[edit] European Seniors Tour (2)

[edit] Results in major championships

Tournament 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
The Masters DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship CUT CUT CUT T39 CUT DNP CUT T52
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
The Masters DNP DNP DNP CUT DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP T77 DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship DNP T73 T34 CUT CUT CUT CUT DNP CUT DNP CUT
PGA Championship DNP DNP CUT CUT CUT 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.

[edit] Team appearances

[edit] Amateur

[edit] Professional

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Harris, Cathy (19 May 2006). "Fit-again Johnstone happy to be back in the swing of things". London: The Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/golf/article1083129.ece. Retrieved 2009-06-22. 
  2. ^ Parsons, Jill (11 November 2008). "Crippled by MS, golfer Tony was told he'd never play again. But an astonishing new drug has proved all the doctors wrong". London: Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1084589/Crippled-MS-golfer-Tony-told-hed-play-But-astonishing-new-drug-proved-doctors-wrong.html. Retrieved 2009-06-22. 

[edit] External links

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