Mark Brown (golfer)

Mark Brown
Personal information
Born	(1975-02-09) 9 February 1975 (age 50) Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb; 12.3 st)
Sporting nationality	New Zealand
Residence	Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Career
Turned professional	1996
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour of Australasia Charles Tour European Senior Tour
Former tour(s)	European Tour Asian Tour Canadian Tour OneAsia Tour
Professional wins	10
Highest ranking	57 (27 April 2008) [1]
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	1
Asian Tour	2
PGA Tour of Australasia	1
European Senior Tour	1
Other	7
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	T24: 2008
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	T44: 2013
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit winner 2008

Mark Brown (born 9 February 1975) is a New Zealand professional golfer. He was particularly successful in 2007 and 2008. In early 2008, he won the SAIL Open Golf Championship and the Johnnie Walker Classic in successive weeks and was in the world top 100 for much of 2008. He played on the European Tour from 2008 to 2011.

Early life

Brown was born in Lower Hutt.

Professional career

Brown had played golf on the PGA Tour of Australasia, the Canadian Tour, and the Asian Tour without much success until 2007 when he had four top-ten finishes on the Asian Tour and finished 15th on the Order of Merit.

In 2008, he won his first Asian Tour event at the SAIL Open Golf Championship at Jaypee Greens in India. The following week he won the Johnnie Walker Classic, which was also held in India and was co-sanctioned by the European Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia. This victory propelled Brown to 64th in the Official World Golf Ranking and he became the highest ranked golfer from New Zealand. He finished 2008 by winning the PGA Tour of Australasia's Order of Merit.

Brown played on the European Tour from 2008 to 2011 but lost his place on the tour after 2011. Apart from his win in 2008, his best finish was to be tied for 3rd place in the 2009 Volvo China Open. From 2012 he played mostly on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the OneAsia tour. He was runner-up in the 2012 New Zealand PGA Championship and the 2014 New Zealand Open. He has won four times on the Charles Tour, all his wins coming in the Carrus Open at the Tauranga Golf Club in Tauranga. He twice scored 59 in the Carrus Open, both in the second round. He first achieved it in 2014, when he won the event, and repeated the feat in 2018, when he eventually finished as a runner-up. ^{[2] [3]}

Professional wins (10)

European Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	2 Mar 2008	Johnnie Walker Classic 1	−18 (71-68-64-67=270)	3 strokes	Greg Chalmers, Taichiro Kiyota, Scott Strange

¹Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia

Asian Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	23 Feb 2008	SAIL Open Golf Championship	−14 (69-69-67-69=274)	4 strokes	Scott Hend, Noh Seung-yul, Jyoti Randhawa
2	2 Mar 2008	Johnnie Walker Classic 1	−18 (71-68-64-67=270)	3 strokes	Greg Chalmers, Taichiro Kiyota, Scott Strange

¹Co-sanctioned by the European Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	2 Mar 2008	Johnnie Walker Classic 1	−18 (71-68-64-67=270)	3 strokes	Greg Chalmers, Taichiro Kiyota, Scott Strange

¹Co-sanctioned by the European Tour and the Asian Tour

Charles Tour wins (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	30 Sep 2012	Carrus Open	−17 (64-71-66-62=263)	4 strokes	Troy Rohipa
2	28 Sep 2014	Carrus Open (2)	−17 (68-59-66-70=263)	2 strokes	Doug Holloway
3	20 Sep 2015	Carrus Open (3)	−14 (67-65-66-68=266)	1 stroke	Jim Cusdin, Joshua Munn (a)
4	23 Apr 2017	Carrus Open (4)	−18 (64-66-67-65=262)	2 strokes	Harry Bateman, Gareth Paddison
5	27 Oct 2024	TSB Taranaki Open	−6 (68-72-73-69=282)	Playoff	Josh Geary
6	13 Apr 2025	Autex Muriwai Open	−15 (65-66-73-69=273)	1 stroke	Kerry Mountcastle

Golf Tour of New Zealand wins (1)

• 2006 Olex Taranaki Open

European Senior Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	13 Jul 2025	Swiss Seniors Open	−15 (66-65-64=195)	2 strokes	Robert Coles, Keith Horne, Van Phillips

Results in major championships

Tournament	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
The Open Championship		CUT				T44
PGA Championship	T24

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament	2008	2009
Match Play
Championship	76	T46
Invitational	80
Champions		T31

  Did not play

"T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

Amateur

• Eisenhower Trophy (representing New Zealand): 1994

Professional

• World Cup (representing New Zealand): 2008, 2018

References

1. "Week 17 2008 Ending 27 Apr 2008" (pdf). OWGR . Retrieved 22 October 2019.
2. "Charles Tour: Carrus Open: Brown joins 59 club in Tauranga". New Zealand Golf. 26 September 2014.
3. "Brown bounces back with magical round of 59". New Zealand Golf. 20 April 2018.

External links

• Mark Brown at the PGA Tour of Australasia official site
• Mark Brown at the European Tour official site
• Mark Brown at the PGA Tour official site
• Mark Brown at the Official World Golf Ranking official site