{"id":402965,"date":"2026-01-11T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402965\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:22:09","slug":"oliver-bekker-facts-10-things-to-know-about-the-south-african-golfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402965\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Bekker Facts: 10 Things To Know About The South African Golfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oliver Bekker\u2019s professional career has seen it\u2019s fair share of success, as well as variety, with the South African playing on several circuits.<\/p>\n

Here are 10 things to know about the Pretoria-born star.<\/p>\n

Oliver Bekker Facts<\/p>\n

1. Oliver Bekker was born on December 11th, 1984 in Pretoria, South Africa.<\/p>\n

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2. After turning professional in 2008, he joined the Sunshine Tour. He now has eight victories on the circuit, including three titles in 2017.<\/p>\n

3. His Major debut came the same year, in the US Open at Erin Hills<\/a>, where he missed the cut.<\/p>\n

4. After a spell on the Challenge Tour (now the HotelPlanner Tour), Bekker earned his place on the DP World Tour for 2022 after finishing seventh in the Road to Mallorca rankings.<\/p>\n

5. In May 2022, Bekker reached a career-high world ranking of 84th.<\/p>\n

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6. Less than a month later, he was teeing it up in the inaugural LIV Golf event at Centurion<\/a> near London, where he represented Dustin Johnson<\/a>‘s 4Aces GC. He finished T6, but that was his only appearance, and he returned to the DP World Tour.<\/p>\n

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\"4Aces\n<\/p>\n

Oliver Bekker (second from left) played in the first LIV Golf event for 4Aces GC<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

7. His one LIV Golf outing earned him prize money of $737,500<\/p>\n

8. Bekker was on the verge of a return to LIV Golf at its Promotions event in 2026. With one round to play, and needing to place in the top three for a card, he was T2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After his third round, he explained he could have extended his LIV Golf career four years earlier, saying: \u201cThinking back on it now, I had the opportunity to play a few more events, and now I\u2019m like, well, maybe I should have played them.<\/p>\n

“The water was a bit rough at that stage and didn\u2019t know what was going to happen, so I played it a bit safe. Luckily, I\u2019ve been given another opportunity this week, and hopefully I can take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

9. One of his superstitions is not playing with No.3 golf balls.<\/p>\n

10. His interests away from golf include reading and computer games.<\/p>\n

Swipe to scroll horizontallyOliver Bekker Bio<\/p>\n

Born<\/p>\n

Pretoria, South Africa – December 11th, 1984<\/p>\n

Height<\/p>\n

6\u00a0ft 2\u00a0in (1.88\u00a0m)<\/p>\n

Turned Professional<\/p>\n

2008<\/p>\n

Former Tours<\/p>\n

Web.com Tour<\/p>\n

Challenge Tour<\/p>\n

LIV Golf<\/p>\n

DP World Tour<\/p>\n

Current Tours<\/p>\n

PGA Tour of Australasia<\/p>\n

Sunshine Tour<\/p>\n

Professional Wins<\/p>\n

9<\/p>\n

Highest OWGR<\/p>\n

84th<\/p>\n

Swipe to scroll horizontallyOliver Bekker Professional Wins<\/p>\n

Tour<\/p>\n

Event<\/p>\n

Winning Score<\/p>\n

Sunshine Tour<\/p>\n

2011 Northern Cape Classic<\/p>\n

-15 (five strokes)<\/p>\n

Sunshine Tour<\/p>\n

2012 Dimension Data Pro-Am<\/p>\n

-13 (two strokes)<\/p>\n

Sunshine Tour<\/p>\n

2013 Telkom PGA Pro-Am<\/p>\n

-20 (two strokes)<\/p>\n

Sunshine Tour<\/p>\n

2016 Sun City Challenge<\/p>\n

-6 (one stroke)<\/p>\n

Sunshine Tour<\/p>\n

2017 Zambia Sugar Open<\/p>\n

-19 (two stokes)<\/p>\n

Sunshine Tour<\/p>\n

2017 Lombard Insurance Classic<\/p>\n

-19 (playoff)<\/p>\n

Sunshine Tour<\/p>\n

2017 Sun Wild Sun Coast Challenge<\/p>\n

-11 (three strokes)<\/p>\n

Sunshine Tour\/Challenge Tour<\/p>\n

2023 Dimension Data Pro-Am<\/p>\n

-22 (four strokes)<\/p>\n

PGA Tour of Australasia<\/p>\n

2025 Nexus Advisernet Bowra & O’Dea WA Open<\/p>\n

-7 (one stroke)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Bekker\u2019s professional career has seen it\u2019s fair share of success, as well as variety, with the South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-402965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}