David Smail | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Hamilton, New Zealand | 20 May 1970
Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb; 12 st 8 lb) |
Sporting nationality | New Zealand |
Residence | Hamilton, New Zealand |
Career | |
Turned professional | 1992 |
Current tour(s) | PGA Tour of Australasia Japan PGA Senior Tour |
Former tour(s) | Japan Golf Tour |
Professional wins | 8 |
Highest ranking | 70 (23 February 2003) [1] |
Number of wins by tour | |
Japan Golf Tour | 5 |
PGA Tour of Australasia | 2 |
Other | 1 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | T67: 2009 |
U.S. Open | CUT: 2003, 2009 |
The Open Championship | T67: 2005 |
David Smail (born 20 May 1970) is a New Zealand professional golfer. [2]
He was born in and resides in Hamilton, New Zealand. He won the New Zealand Open in 2001. He has won five titles on the Japan Golf Tour and has featured in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings. He has at times in his career been the highest ranked New Zealand golfer.
Legend |
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Flagship events (1) |
Japan majors (1) |
Other Japan Golf Tour (4) |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | 20 Oct 2002 | Japan Open Golf Championship | −9 (71-66-67-67=271) | 4 strokes | Kim Jong-duck |
2 | 1 Dec 2002 | Casio World Open | −16 (68-68-64=200)* | 2 strokes | Brendan Jones |
3 | 28 Nov 2004 | Casio World Open (2) | −12 (70-66-69-71=276) | 1 stroke | Hunter Mahan |
4 | 25 Sep 2005 | Acom International | −13 (64-65-69-73=271) | 2 strokes | Taichi Teshima |
5 | 23 Oct 2005 | Bridgestone Open | −16 (66-72-67-67=272) | 2 strokes | Toru Suzuki |
*Note: The 2002 Casio World Open was shortened to 54 holes due to rain.
Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–2)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponents | Result |
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1 | 2005 | Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open | Chris Campbell, Tadahiro Takayama | Campbell won with birdie on second extra hole |
2 | 2005 | Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills Cup | Yasuharu Imano, Kazuhiko Hosokawa | Hosokawa won with par on second extra hole |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 21 Jan 2001 | New Zealand Open | −7 (66-68-69-70=273) | 2 strokes | Steven Alker, Michael Campbell, Roger Chapman, Nathan Gatehouse |
2 | 28 Jan 2001 | Canon Challenge | −19 (69-64-69-67=269) | 1 stroke | David Gossett |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runners-up |
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1 | 18 Jun 2023 | Starts Senior Golf Tournament | −18 (65-64-66=195) | 5 strokes | Hiroyuki Fujita, Prayad Marksaeng |
Other playoff record (0–1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponents | Result |
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1 | 2001 | WGC-World Cup (with Michael Campbell) | Denmark − Thomas Bjørn and Søren Hansen, South Africa − Retief Goosen and Ernie Els, United States − David Duval and Tiger Woods | South Africa won with par on second extra hole New Zealand and United States eliminated by birdie on first hole |
Tournament | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
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Masters Tournament | |||||||||
U.S. Open | CUT | CUT | |||||||
The Open Championship | 68 | CUT | T67 | CUT | CUT | CUT | |||
PGA Championship | T67 |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
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