Deane Pappas

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Deane Pappas
Personal information
Full nameDeane Pappas
Born (1967-12-12) 12 December 1967 (age 56)
Phalaborwa, South Africa
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Sporting nationalityFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
Residence Jonesboro, Arkansas, U.S.
Career
College University of Arkansas
Turned professional1992
Current tour(s) Sunshine Tour
Former tour(s) PGA Tour
Professional wins5
Number of wins by tour
Sunshine Tour2
Korn Ferry Tour2
Other1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament DNP
PGA Championship DNP
U.S. Open CUT: 2010
The Open Championship DNP

Deane Pappas (born 12 December 1967) is a South African professional golfer. He has won twice on both the Southern Africa-based Sunshine Tour and on the second-tier United States based Buy.com Tour, now the Web.com Tour.

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Pappas was born in Phalaborwa, Limpopo province, South Africa, as the second youngest of four brothers, three of them to became professional golfers. He was a three-time All-American at the University of Arkansas, where he was a teammate of John Daly.

At the 1988 Eisenhower Trophy at Ullna Golf Club in Stockholm, Sweden, Pappas together with his brother Sean, was part of the four-men team representing Greece.

Pappas turned professional in 1992 and joined the Sunshine Tour in 1994. He won for the first time on the tour in 2001, at the prestigious South African PGA Championship. He claimed his second tour victory in 2009 at the Dimension Data Pro-Am.

Between 1996 and 2007, Pappas played extensively in the United States, winning two tournaments on the Buy.com Tour, the first in 2000 and the second the following year he played three seasons on the PGA Tour, the first in 1999 after finishing tied for second place at qualifying school. Pappas and his younger brother, Brenden, in 2001 became the first brothers to graduate simultaneously to the PGA Tour by finishing in the top 15 on the Buy.com Tour money list.

Pappas lives in Arkansas in the United States with his wife Shona, and two children, Callen and Devyn. They currently live in Jonesboro.

Professional wins (5)

Sunshine Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
111 Feb 2001 South African PGA Championship −19 (68-67-67-67=269)3 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg Don Gammon
225 Jan 2009 Dimension Data Pro-Am −20 (65-66-69-68=268)8 strokes Flag of South Africa.svg James Kamte

Buy.com Tour wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
118 Jun 2000 Buy.com Cleveland Open −15 (70-67-69-67=273)1 stroke Flag of South Africa.svg Tjaart van der Walt
218 Mar 2001 Buy.com Monterrey Open −17 (67-68-67-69=271)1 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Keoke Cotner, Flag of the United States.svg Tim Petrovic

Other wins (1)

Results in major championships

Tournament2010
U.S. Open CUT

CUT = missed the halfway cut
Note: Pappas only played in the U.S. Open.

Team appearances

Amateur

See also

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