David Smail (golfer)

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David Smail
Personal information
Born (1970-05-20) 20 May 1970 (age 53)
Hamilton, New Zealand
Height1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb; 12 st 8 lb)
Sporting nationality New Zealand
ResidenceHamilton, New Zealand
Career
Turned professional1992
Current tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
PGA Tour of Australasia
Professional wins7
Highest ranking70 (23 February 2003)[1]
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour5
PGA Tour of Australasia2
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipT67: 2009
U.S. OpenCUT: 2003, 2009
The Open ChampionshipT67: 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.

Professional wins (7)[edit]

Japan Golf Tour wins (5)[edit]

Legend
Flagship events (1)
Japan majors (1)
Other Japan Golf Tour (4)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 20 Oct 2002 Japan Open Golf Championship −9 (71-66-67-67=271) 4 strokes South Korea Kim Jong-duck
2 1 Dec 2002 Casio World Open −16 (68-68-64=200)* 2 strokes Australia Brendan Jones
3 28 Nov 2004 Casio World Open (2) −12 (70-66-69-71=276) 1 stroke United States Hunter Mahan
4 25 Sep 2005 Acom International −13 (64-65-69-73=271) 2 strokes Japan Taichi Teshima
5 23 Oct 2005 Bridgestone Open −16 (66-72-67-67=272) 2 strokes Japan 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
1 2005 Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open Australia Chris Campbell, Japan Tadahiro Takayama Campbell won with birdie on second extra hole
2 2005 Japan Golf Tour Championship Shishido Hills Cup Japan Yasuharu Imano, Japan Kazuhiko Hosokawa Hosokawa won with par on second extra hole

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)[edit]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 21 Jan 2001 New Zealand Open −7 (66-68-69-70=273) 2 strokes New Zealand Steven Alker, New Zealand Michael Campbell,
England Roger Chapman, Australia Nathan Gatehouse
2 28 Jan 2001 Canon Challenge −19 (69-64-69-67=269) 1 stroke United States David Gossett

Playoff record[edit]

Other playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2001 WGC-World Cup
(with New Zealand Michael Campbell)
 DenmarkThomas Bjørn and Søren Hansen,
 South AfricaRetief Goosen and Ernie Els,
 United StatesDavid Duval and Tiger Woods
South Africa won with par on second extra hole
New Zealand and United States eliminated by birdie on first hole

Results in major championships[edit]

Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open CUT CUT
The Open Championship 68 CUT T67 CUT CUT CUT
PGA Championship T67
  Did not play

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

Team appearances[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Week 8 2003 Ending 23 Feb 2003" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  2. ^ "David Smail". PGA of Australia. Archived from the original on 29 July 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2024.

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