Oliver Bekker

Oliver Bekker (born 11 December 1984) is a South African professional golfer.

Oliver Bekker
Personal information
Born	(1984-12-11) 11 December 1984 (age 40) Pretoria, South Africa
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	198 lb (90 kg; 14.1 st)
Sporting nationality	South Africa
Residence	Stellenbosch, South Africa
Career
Turned professional	2008
Current tour(s)	European Tour Sunshine Tour
Former tour(s)	Web.com Tour Challenge Tour LIV Golf
Professional wins	8
Highest ranking	84 (15 May 2022)[1] (as of 10 August 2025)
Number of wins by tour
Sunshine Tour	8
Challenge Tour	1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	CUT: 2022
U.S. Open	CUT: 2017
The Open Championship	DNP
Achievements and awards
Sunshine Tour Players' Player of the Year 2017–18

Professional career

Bekker plays on the Sunshine Tour where he has won seven times. He won the 2011 Northern Cape Classic, the 2012 Dimension Data Pro-Am,^[2] the 2013 Telkom PGA Pro-Am and the 2016 Sun City Challenge. He won three times in 2017, the Zambia Sugar Open, the Lombard Insurance Classic, and the Sun Wild Coast Sun Challenge.

In April 2021, Bekker lost in a four-man playoff at the Limpopo Championship.^[3] In December, he finished second in the SA Open Championship; one shot behind Daniel van Tonder.^[4] At the end of the season he graduated to the European Tour for 2022 via the Challenge Tour rankings.^[5]

In May 2022, Bekker broke into the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time after losing out in a playoff for the Catalunya Championship.^[6] In June 2022, he played in the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series event. Along with several other players, he was subsequently fined by the European Tour and suspended from three PGA Tour co-sanctioned events.^[7]

In February 2023, Bekker won the Dimension Data Pro-Am for the second time in his career. The event was co-sanctioned between the Challenge Tour and the Sunshine Tour.^[8]

Professional wins (8)

Sunshine Tour wins (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	17 Sep 2011	Northern Cape Classic	−15 (66-64-68=198)	5 strokes	Bryce Easton
2	19 Feb 2012	Dimension Data Pro-Am	−13 (65-70-71-70=276)	2 strokes	Thomas Aiken, Tyrone Ferreira
3	25 Jan 2013	Telkom PGA Pro-Am	−20 (66-64-66=196)	2 strokes	PH McIntyre, Ryan Strauss
4	6 Aug 2016	Sun City Challenge	−6 (74-67-69=210)	1 stroke	Shaun Norris
5	30 Apr 2017	Zambia Sugar Open	−19 (68-66-67-72=273)	2 strokes	Jared Harvey
6	21 May 2017	Lombard Insurance Classic	−19 (63-70-64=197)	Playoff	Justin Harding
7	25 Aug 2017	Sun Wild Coast Sun Challenge	−11 (69-65-65=199)	3 strokes	Tyrone Ferreira, Alex Haindl, Ockie Strydom
8	12 Feb 2023	Dimension Data Pro-Am1 (2)	−22 (67-68-64-68=267)	4 strokes	Adam Blommé

¹Co-sanctioned by the Challenge Tour

Sunshine Tour playoff record (1–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	2017	Lombard Insurance Classic	Justin Harding	Won with par on first extra hole
2	2021	Limpopo Championship	Hennie du Plessis, Brandon Stone, Daniel van Tonder	Stone won with birdie on first extra hole

Challenge Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	12 Feb 2023	Dimension Data Pro-Am1	−22 (67-68-64-68=267)	4 strokes	Adam Blommé

¹Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour

Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2021	Limpopo Championship	Hennie du Plessis, Brandon Stone, Daniel van Tonder	Stone won with birdie on first extra hole

Playoff record

European Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2022	Catalunya Championship	Adri Arnaus	Lost to par on sixth extra hole

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament	2017	2018
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open	CUT
The Open Championship
PGA Championship

Tournament	2019	2020	2021	2022
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship				CUT
U.S. Open
The Open Championship		NT

CUT = missed the halfway cut
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Match Play
Championship
Invitational	75
Champions							T69

  Did not play

"T" = Tied

See also

• 2021 Challenge Tour graduates