George Coetzee
George Coetzee was born in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa on July 18th, 1986 and is the Golfer. At the age of 38, George Coetzee biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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George William Coetzee (born 18 July 1986) is a South African professional golfer who competes on the European Tour and Sunshine Tour. In Pretoria, Coetzee was born.
He began playing golf when he was ten years old and won the first junior tournament he ever competed in, shooting 49 in 9 holes.
He finished fourth and eighth in the Callaway Junior World Championship in San Diego, where he attended the University of San Diego for one semester.
In 2007, he became a professional. In the Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour tournament in Selborne, Coetzee joined the Sunshine Tour in 2007, winning his first victory during his rookie season.
His second and third victories came a year later at the SAA Pro-Am Invitational and the Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Humewood. He gained a European Tour card for the 2010 season through the qualifying academy, but he had to return to qualifying school at the end of the season after placing 126th on the Order of Merit and having only two top-ten finishes.
Coetzee returned to playing in 2011 and had a fruitful season, with a runner-up finish at the Johnnie Walker Championship in Gleneagles, where he lost out to Thomas Bjorn on the fifth extra hole of a five-man playoff.
He has also placed third-place finishes at other tournaments and eight top-10s overall.
Coetzee finished last year on the Race to Dubai ranked 26th. Coetzee had a fruitful 2012 season, finishing 21st on the Race to Dubai and top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. With a three stroke victory at the Joburg Open in February 2014, Coetzee earned his second European Tour title in his 107th appearance in his career.
He came from four strokes behind in the final round, with a six under par 66 to claim victory.
Brandon StoneCoetzee, another South African golfer, gained his second European Tour title in March 2015 over Jacques Blaauw.
Both of his victories on the European Tour have taken place in co-sanctioned activities with the Sunshine Tour in South Africa. Coetzee shot his second tournament of the year in May 2015 at the inaugural AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, defeating Thorbjrn Olesen in a sudden-death playoff for the second extra hole with a birdie on the par-five 18th hole. In February 2016, Coetzee defeated Dean Burmester by a single stroke after winning the Dimension Data Pro-Am finishing birdie-eagle.
Early life
Coetzee was born in Pretoria and graduated from the Afrikaanse Hool in 2004. He started playing golf when he was ten and won the first junior tournament he ever participated in, shooting 49 holes in 9 holes. He placed 4th and 8th in the Callaway Junior World Championship in San Diego, where he attended the University of San Diego for one semester. In 2007, he became a professional.
Professional career
Coetzee began working as a tour guide on the Sunshine Tour in 2007. In the Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour event at Selborne, he won his first victory of his rookie season. His second and third victories came at the SAA Pro-Am Invitational and the Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour in Humewood a year later.
He earned a European Tour card for the 2010 season through the qualifying academy, but after finishing 126th on the Order of Merit and only two top-10 finishes, he had to return to qualifying school at the end of the season. In 2011, Coetzee regained his playing rights. At the Johnnie Walker Championship in Gleneagles, where he lost out to Thomas Bjorn on the fifth extra hole of a five-man playoff. He has also had three third-place finishes at other tournaments and eight top-tens overall. On the Road to Dubai, Coetzee finished the season ranked 26th. He placed 21st on the Race to Dubai and finished in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking for the 2012 season.
Coetzee won his first European Tour title in his 107th debut in February 2014 with a three-stroke victory at the Joburg Open. In the final round, he came from four strokes behind with a six under par 66 to win. By a single stroke over Jacques Blaauw, Coetzee won his second European Tour title at the Tshwane Open in March 2015. In May 2015, Coetzee won his second tournament of the year at the inaugural AfrA Bank Mauritius Open, defeating Thorbjrn Olesen in a sudden-death playoff on the par-five 18th hole with a birdie on the par-five 18th hole. He received the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit for the second year.
Coetzee defeated Dean Burmester by a single stroke in February 2016. Alan Burns, who had been Coetzee's caddie since 2010, had another chance with another South African golfer, Brandon Stone. Coetzee won his second Sunshine Tour Order of Merit title in 2017-18, and his fourth European Tour victory since being co-sanctioned Tshwane Open won.
Coetzee defeated the Portugal Masters in September 2020 in his fifth tournament on the European Tour. This was his first victory in mainland Europe and his first European Tour victory that was not co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour.