Justin Harding | |
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Personal information | |
Full name | Justin Adam Harding |
Born | Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa | 9 February 1986
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Weight | 176 lb (80 kg; 12.6 st) |
Sporting nationality | South Africa |
Residence | Cape Town, South Africa |
Partner | Leah Totton |
Career | |
College | Lamar University |
Turned professional | 2010 |
Current tour(s) | European Tour Asian Tour Sunshine Tour |
Former tour(s) | LIV Golf |
Professional wins | 11 |
Highest ranking | 42 (12 May 2019) [1] (as of 21 April 2024) |
Number of wins by tour | |
European Tour | 2 |
Asian Tour | 2 |
Sunshine Tour | 7 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | T12: 2019 |
PGA Championship | T54: 2019 |
U.S. Open | CUT: 2019, 2020 |
The Open Championship | T19: 2021 |
Justin Adam Harding (born 9 February 1986) is a South African professional golfer.
Harding attended Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and played college golf at Lamar University in Texas and represented his country as an amateur golfer. [2] [3]
Having graduated, he earned a place on the Sunshine Tour at the first attempt, finishing third at the 2009 qualifying school while still an amateur. He won a tournament in each of his first three seasons on the tour, 2010, 2011 and 2012. He won again in 2015 and 2016 and then twice in two weeks in 2018.
In July 2018 Harding made a rare appearance outside Africa and won the Bank BRI Indonesia Open on the Asian Tour by a stroke from Scott Vincent. Two weeks later he won the Royal Cup in Thailand by 6 strokes, his fourth win in three months.
Alan Burns has caddied full time for Harding since October 2018. [4]
In March 2019, Harding got his first European Tour victory by winning the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters by two strokes over nine runners-up. He was a joint runner-up in the Kenya Open the following week, a result that lifted him into the world top 50 and gave him an entry into the 2019 Masters Tournament. He finished in a share of 12th place to earn his place at the 2020 Masters Tournament.
In March 2021, Harding shot a final-round 66 to win the Magical Kenya Open by two shots ahead of Kurt Kitayama. [5]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 10 Mar 2019 | Commercial Bank Qatar Masters | −13 (68-68-73-66=275) | 2 strokes | Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Jorge Campillo, Choi Jin-ho, George Coetzee, Nacho Elvira, Anton Karlsson, Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Erik van Rooyen, Oliver Wilson |
2 | 21 Mar 2021 | Magical Kenya Open | −21 (66-67-64-66=263) | 2 strokes | Kurt Kitayama |
European Tour playoff record (0–1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
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1 | 2021 | Cazoo Open | Nacho Elvira | Lost to par on first extra hole |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 15 Jul 2018 | Bank BRI Indonesia Open | −18 (67-66-66-71=270) | 1 stroke | Scott Vincent |
2 | 29 Jul 2018 | Royal Cup | −14 (64-64-71-67=266) | 6 strokes | Shiv Kapur, Kurt Kitayama, Jake McLeod, Chapchai Nirat |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | 15 Oct 2010 | Vodacom Origins of Golf Final | −7 (68-70-71=209) | 1 stroke | Ulrich van den Berg |
2 | 5 Jun 2011 | Lombard Insurance Classic | −14 (64-68-70=202) | 1 stroke | Neil Cheetham |
3 | 17 Jun 2012 | Indo Zambia Bank Zambia Open | −12 (71-72-69-68=280) | 2 strokes | Divan van den Heever |
4 | 6 Jun 2015 | Vodacom Origins of Golf (2) at Langebaan | −8 (72-68-68=208) | Playoff | Vaughn Groenewald |
5 | 1 Oct 2016 | Vodacom Origins of Golf (3) at Simola | −14 (68-64-70=202) | 1 stroke | Ockie Strydom |
6 | 12 May 2018 | Investec Royal Swazi Open | 47 pts (10-6-13-18=47) | 1 point | Lyle Rowe |
7 | 20 May 2018 | Lombard Insurance Classic (2) | −20 (66-64-66=196) | Playoff | Jake Roos |
Sunshine Tour playoff record (2–2)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
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1 | 2012 | Lombard Insurance Classic | Jake Roos | Lost to par on first extra hole |
2 | 2015 | Vodacom Origins of Golf at Langebaan | Vaughn Groenewald | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
3 | 2017 | Lombard Insurance Classic | Oliver Bekker | Lost to par on first extra hole |
4 | 2018 | Lombard Insurance Classic | Jake Roos | Won with birdie on sixth extra hole |
Results not in chronological order in 2020.
Tournament | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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Masters Tournament | ||||||
U.S. Open | ||||||
The Open Championship | CUT | |||||
PGA Championship | CUT |
Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Masters Tournament | T12 | CUT | ||
PGA Championship | T54 | T71 | ||
U.S. Open | CUT | CUT | ||
The Open Championship | T41 | NT | T19 | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
Tournament | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Championship | T29 | ||
Match Play | T17 | NT1 | |
Invitational | T43 | ||
Champions | T46 | T53 | NT1 |
1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied
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