Career highlights

• One of three players (Geoff Ogilvy, Brian Harman) with final-round 9-under 63 in final round at RBC Canadian Open. Front-nine 28 (1 eagle, 5 birdies) tied low nine holes in 2015-16 with Kevin Na and Jhonattan Vegas. Finished T32.
• 2014-15: Won his second European Tour event in as many years when he broke free from a tie with fellow South African Wallie Coetsee on the final day of the Tshwane Open at Pretoria CC. Opened 67-66-68 and then closed with a bogey-free, 6-under 70 Sunday to defeat Jacques Blaauw by a shot
• Opened with a 5-under 67 at the Trophy Hassan II in Morocco in late-March. Was 3-under the rest of the way, finishing T3 with five others, two shots behind winner Richie Ramsay
• In early May, picked up win No. 2 of the campaign at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. Jumped into the 54-hole lead with a third-round 65 at the Heritage GC. Led Thomas Aiken and Thorbjorn Olesen by a shot with 18 holes to play. Fired a Sunday, 2-under 69 but couldn't hold off Olesen, who tied him at the conclusion of regulation by shooting a 68. In the playoff, he defeated Olesen when he made a birdie on the second sudden-death hole to claim the title. The victory gave him a multi-win season for the first time in his career
• Back on the PGA TOUR in August, followed a 2-over 74 in the first round of the PGA Championship with a 7-under 65 Friday. Weekend rounds of 70-67, leaving him at 12-under 276, resulted in a T7 with Matt Kuchar and Dustin Johnson. 2013-14: Made six PGA TOUR appearances and enjoyed four consecutive top-20s, including a T9 at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Pllay Championship
• Added a T16 in his next start, at the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship and was 18th and 17th, respectively, at The Open Championship and the Barracuda Championship
• Concluded the European Tour season ranked 23rd on the final Race to Dubai standings
• At the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship in mid-January, finished T4 after shooting a final-round-best 66 at Abu Dhabi GC. Was tied for 13th when the day began and finished two shots behind winner Pablo Larrazabal
• Opened with an 8-under 64 at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters but fell out of contention with a third-round, 1-over 73. Recovered over his final 18 holes by shooting a 4-under 68 to T5
• Played superb golf all week in winning his first European Tour title. Opened the Joburg Open with a 6-under 65 on Royal Johannesburg & Kensington GC's West Course. Fired a final-round, 6-under 66 on the East Course to hold off Tyrrell Hatton (who shot a final-round 66 of his own), Jin Jeong and Justin Walters by three shots. He played his final 20 holes in 8-under (eight birdies) and only had three bogeys all week
• Advanced to the semifinals of the Volvo World Match Play Championship at The London GC in England in mid-October before falling to Henrik Stenson, 1-down. In the third-place match, lost to Joost Luiten in 19 holes
• Added a T10 in early November in China at the BMW Masters. Tied with Fabrizio Zanotti and Mikko Ilonen at Lake Malren GC.2013: Played in 11 PGA TOUR events, with a T17 at the Tampa Bay Championship (second- and third-round 68s) his top performance
• Played in all four major championships, making the cut at the U.S. Open (T56) and The Open Championship (T71)
• Lost in the first round of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship
• First top-10 of the year came at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship in mid-January, with a T9
• Was in position to force a playoff the next week when he shot a final-round 65 at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. Finished regulation with the clubhouse lead (with Sergio Garcia). Watched as Chris Wood drained a 14-foot eagle putt on the 72nd hole to win, leaving him T2 with Garcia
• Two weeks after his performance in Qatar, he finished T3 at the Joburg Open, eight strokes behind winner Richard Sterne in South Africa
• Playing in his first World Cup, representing South Africa, finished T20 with four others, including teammate Branden Grace. In the team competition, the duo placed sixth at Royal Melbourne GC.2012: Finished T6 at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. Shot a final-round, 2-under 70 after a 7-under 65 in the third round put him in contention at Abu Dhabi GC
• Shot four under-par rounds at Emeriates GC to T5 at the Dubai Desert Classic
• Opened with an even-par 72 at the Volvo China Open then fired rounds of 67-64-69 over his final 54 holes to T4 in April in Tianjian
• Added another top-10 a week later, a T7 at the Ballantine's Championship in South Korea
• Had a strong final 36 holes at the Portugal Masters in mid-October. Shot consecutive 67s on the weekend at Oceanico Victoria GC to T6
• Added second top-10 in China, finishing T6 in Shanghai at the European Tour's BMW Masters
• At the South African Open in mid-November, put himself in contention with a third-round 63 at Serengeti Golf and Wildlife Estate in Ekurhuleni. Couldn't keep the momentum going in the final round, shooting a 1-under 71 to finish runner-up, three shots short of Henrik Stenson
• Was T10 late in the year, at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa.2011: Won the biggest event of his career, the Telkom PGA Championship on the Sunshine Tour, after losing by a stroke in the same tournament a year earlier. Fired a four-round total of 27-under at the CC of Johannesburg. Shot a final-round 64 to edge Neil Schietekat by two strokes
• Came close to winning for the first time on the European Tour, finishing T2 at the Johnnie Walker Championship in Scotland in August. Lost in a five-man playoff to Thomas Bjorn. Battled through all five holes after Mark Foster, Bernd Wiesberger and Pablo Larrazabal dropped out of the overtime session. Made a 12-foot putt on the fourth extra hole to extend the playoff but eventually bowed out when his lengthy birdie putt on the fifth playoff hole didn't drop and Bjorn made a short birdie putt for the win
• Had played well in Scotland earlier in the season, finishing third at The Barclays Scottish Open
• Other top-fives came at the BMW International open (T3) and the Hassan Trophy (fourth). Was also seventh at the Joburg Open, a co-sanctioned event on the European Tour and Sunshine Tour
• At the Alfred Dunhill Championship, shot weekend rounds of 69-69 to T3 at the event in Malealane, South Africa. 2010: Shot a final-round 67 at the Telkom PGA Championship on the Sunshine Tour but still fell by a stroke when Michiel Bothma fired a final-round 63 to win by a stroke
• First European top-10 came at the Madeira Islands Open, where he T6. Was also 10th at the Johnnie Walker Championship. 2009: Finished sixth at the Telkom PGA Championship for his lone top-10 of the season. 2008: At the SAA Pro-Am Invitational on the Sunshine Tour, rolled to a three-stroke win over Warren Abery and Doug McGuigan. 2007: Picked up his first professional win, on the Sunshine Tour, part of the Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour, a series of five tournaments that make up the winter swing of the Sunshine Tour. He defeated Ulrich van den Berg by two strokes. Amateur: Turned professional in 2007 after attending one semester at the University of San Diego.