Marc Cayeux
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Marc Elton Cayeux is a Zimbabwe
an professional golfer
. His father is South Africa
n, and his mother English. He was born in Lancaster
, England
and raised in Zimbabwe, leaving school at 14 to pursue a career in golf
. He is a Zimbabwean/British dual national, but plays golf as a Zimbabwean.
Cayeux finished fourth on the Challenge Tour
in 2004, to gain exemption to the full European Tour
for 2005. That year he finished 82nd on the Order of Merit, with a best of third in the Scandinavian Masters by Carlsberg. He also won the Vodacom Tour Championship on the Sunshine Tour
, on his way to fifth in the end of season standings. That win gained him entry to the WGC-NEC Invitational
, where he played with World Number 1
and eventual winner Tiger Woods
in the first round.
A less successful season in 2006 saw Cayeux return to the Sunshine Tour the following year, where he had four top three finishes on his way to eighth in the Order of Merit. In 2008, he won the Nashua Masters
, and regained his place on the European Tour through the qualifying school
.
In September 2010, Cayeux was involved in an automobile accident that resulted in serious injuries to himself and was fatal to the other driver involved. He is not expected to play until early 2011.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
an professional golfer
Professional golfer
In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who breaches the rules of amateur status may lose his or her amateur status. A golfer who has lost his or her amateur status may not play in amateur competitions until amateur status has been reinstated;...
. His father is South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n, and his mother English. He was born in Lancaster
Lancaster, Lancashire
Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire, England. It is situated on the River Lune and has a population of 45,952. Lancaster is a constituent settlement of the wider City of Lancaster, local government district which has a population of 133,914 and encompasses several outlying towns, including...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and raised in Zimbabwe, leaving school at 14 to pursue a career in golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
. He is a Zimbabwean/British dual national, but plays golf as a Zimbabwean.
Cayeux finished fourth on the Challenge Tour
Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...
in 2004, to gain exemption to the full European Tour
PGA European Tour
The PGA European Tour is an organization which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Seniors Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour. Its headquarters are at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England...
for 2005. That year he finished 82nd on the Order of Merit, with a best of third in the Scandinavian Masters by Carlsberg. He also won the Vodacom Tour Championship on the Sunshine Tour
Sunshine Tour
The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its history it was known either as the South African Tour or the FNB Tour, but it rebranded itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal...
, on his way to fifth in the end of season standings. That win gained him entry to the WGC-NEC Invitational
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
The WGC-Bridgestone Invitational is one of the annual World Golf Championships for male professional golfers. It is sanctioned and organized by the International Federation of PGA Tours and the prize money is official money on both the PGA Tour and the PGA European Tour...
, where he played with World Number 1
Official World Golf Rankings
The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of male professional golfers...
and eventual winner Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No...
in the first round.
A less successful season in 2006 saw Cayeux return to the Sunshine Tour the following year, where he had four top three finishes on his way to eighth in the Order of Merit. In 2008, he won the Nashua Masters
South African Masters
The Nashua Masters, as it is currently known for sponsorship reasons, is one of the most prestigious golf tournaments on the Sunshine Tour. It is currently played in November with a prize fund of 1.2 million rand, and since 2001, has been held at the Wild Coast Sun Country Club in KwaZulu-Natal,...
, and regained his place on the European Tour through the qualifying school
Qualifying school
In professional golf the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S. based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the tour for the following season, otherwise known as a...
.
In September 2010, Cayeux was involved in an automobile accident that resulted in serious injuries to himself and was fatal to the other driver involved. He is not expected to play until early 2011.
Sunshine Tour wins (9)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning Score | Margin of Victory | Runner(s)-up |
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| 1 | 22 Nov 1998 | Zambia Open Zambia Open The Zambia Open is a men's professional golf tournament played in Zambia, that has been part of the Sunshine Tour since 1996, and was co-sanctioned by the European based Challenge Tour from 2001 to 2004... |
1 stroke |  Chris Davison Hennie OttoHennie Otto Hendrik Johannes "Hennie" Otto is a South African professional golfer.Otto was born in Boksburg. He has played golf on the European Tour since 2000 having graduated from the Challenge Tour, but has only finished within the top 100 on the Order of Merit twice, in 2003 when he finished tied for... |
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| 2 | 21 Feb 1999 | Stenham Royal Swazi Sun | 3 strokes |  Mark McNultyMark McNulty Mark William McNulty is an Irish/Zimbabwean professional golfer currently playing on the Champions Tour. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, and cracked the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 83 weeks from 1987 to 1992.McNulty... |
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| 3 | 13 May 2000 | Pietersburg Classic | 4 strokes | Dean van Staden |
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| 4 | 31 Mar 2001 | FNB Botswana Open | 2 strokes | Hendrik Buhrmann Hendrik Buhrmann Hendrik Theodor Smit Buhrmann is a South African professional golfer.Buhrmann was born in Vereeniging. He turned professional in 1985 and has won eight tournaments on the Southern African Sunshine Tour... Grant Muller |
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| 5 | 10 Mar 2002 | Stanbic Zambia Open(co-sanctioned by the Challenge Tour) | 2 strokes | André Cruse Richard Sterne Richard Sterne (golfer) -Life and career:Sterne was born in Pretoria. He was runner-up in the Boys' 15-17 Division at the 1999 World Junior Golf Championships and turned pro in 2001. He played on the European Challenge Tour in 2002 and graduated to membership of the main European Tour in 2003. He won his first European... |
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| 6 | 10 May 2003 | Limpopo Industrelek Classic | 3 strokes | Tyrol Auret |
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| 7 | 27 Feb 2005 | Vodacom Tour Championship | 6 strokes | Keith Horne Keith Horne Keith Weller Horne is a professional golfer from South Africa.Horne was born in Durban and had a successful amateur career. In 1993, Horne won a Silver Medal at the World Games in Spain... |
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| 8 | 7 Oct 2007 2007 Sunshine Tour The 2007 Sunshine Tour was the eighth season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa based Sunshine Tour was rebranded in 2000, and the marked the beginning of a new era as the tour switched to a calendar based season, having previously been seasonal... |
Bearing Man Highveld Classic | 3 strokes | Ulrich van den Berg Ulrich van den Berg Ulrich van den Berg is a South African professional golfer.Van den Berg was born in East London. He had a successful amateur career which peaked in 1997 when he won the South African Amateur Strokeplay Championship, the Transvaal Amateur, and the Western Province Strokeplay Championship. He turned... |
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| 9 | 3 Feb 2008 2008 Sunshine Tour The 2008 Sunshine Tour was the ninth season of professional golf tournaments since the southern Africa based Sunshine Tour was relaunched in 2000, and the second since the tour switched a calendar based season in 2007... |
Nashua Masters South African Masters The Nashua Masters, as it is currently known for sponsorship reasons, is one of the most prestigious golf tournaments on the Sunshine Tour. It is currently played in November with a prize fund of 1.2 million rand, and since 2001, has been held at the Wild Coast Sun Country Club in KwaZulu-Natal,... |
2 strokes | Bradford Vaughan Bradford Vaughan Bradford Vaughan is a South African professional golfer. He won the South African Amateur in 1994 and turned professional the following year. He has won eight tournaments on the Sunshine Tour... |
Challenge Tour wins (3)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning Score | Margin of Victory | Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 Mar 2002 2002 Challenge Tour The 2002 Challenge Tour was a series of golf tournaments known as the Challenge Tour, the official development tour run by the PGA European Tour. The tour was started as the Satellite Tour in 1986 and was renamed the Challenge Tour ready for the start of the 1990 season.The Challenge Tour Rankings... |
Stanbic Zambia Open(co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour) | 2 strokes | André Cruse, Richard Sterne Richard Sterne (golfer) -Life and career:Sterne was born in Pretoria. He was runner-up in the Boys' 15-17 Division at the 1999 World Junior Golf Championships and turned pro in 2001. He played on the European Challenge Tour in 2002 and graduated to membership of the main European Tour in 2003. He won his first European... |
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| 2 | 21 Mar 2004 2004 Challenge Tour The 2004 Challenge Tour was a series of golf tournaments known as the Challenge Tour, the official development tour run by the PGA European Tour... |
Kenya Open Kenya Open The Kenya Open is a golf tournament in Kenya and has been an event on the European based Challenge Tour schedule since 1991. It was founded in 1967, and has been held at Muthaiga Golf Club near Nairobi every year except 1968 and between 2004 and 2008, when the tournament was held at Karen Country... |
Playoff |  Leif WesterbergLeif Westerberg Leif Westerberg is a Swedish professional golfer.Westerberg was born in Stockholm and turned professional in 1997. He has played predominantly on Europe's second tier Challenge Tour where he has won two tournaments. He has graduated from the Challenge Tour twice, in 2004 and 2007, when he finished... |
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| 3 | 26 Sep 2004 | Open de Toulouse | Playoff |  David DrysdaleDavid Drysdale David Drysdale is a Scottish professional golfer.Drysdale was born in Edinburgh. He turned professional in 1995.Drysdale currently competes on the European Tour, having graduated through qualifying school for the fourth time at the end of 2008... |
See also
- Golfers with most Sunshine Tour winsGolfers with most Sunshine Tour winsThis is a list of golfers who have recorded the most number of tournament wins on the Sunshine Tour since it was established. It was previously named the South African winter Tour, the FNB Winter Tour and the South African Tour. This list contains golfers who have won any number of events that are...
- 2008 European Tour Qualifying School graduates2008 European Tour Qualifying School GraduatesThis is a list of the 32 players who earned their 2009 European Tour card through Q School in 2008.*Players in yellow were 2009 European Tour rookies.-2009 Results:T = Tied...