Deane Pappas

Deane Pappas
Deane Pappas
Personal information
Full name	Deane Pappas
Born	12 December 1967 (age 57); Phalaborwa, South Africa
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Sporting nationality	South Africa; Greece
Residence	Jonesboro, Arkansas, U.S.
Career
College	University of Arkansas
Turned professional	1992
Current tour(s)	Sunshine Tour
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	5
Number of wins by tour
Sunshine Tour	2
Korn Ferry Tour	2
Other	1
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP
U.S. Open	CUT: 2010
The Open Championship	DNP

Deane Pappas (born 12 December 1967) is a South African professional golfer. He has won twice on both the Southern Africa-based Sunshine Tour and on the second-tier United States based Buy.com Tour, now the Web.com Tour.

Pappas was born in Phalaborwa, Limpopo province, South Africa, as the second youngest of four brothers, three of them to became professional golfers. He was a three-time All-American at the University of Arkansas, where he was a teammate of John Daly.

At the 1988 Eisenhower Trophy at Ullna Golf Club in Stockholm, Sweden, Pappas together with his brother Sean, was part of the four-men team representing Greece.

Pappas turned professional in 1992 and joined the Sunshine Tour in 1994. He won for the first time on the tour in 2001, at the prestigious South African PGA Championship. He claimed his second tour victory in 2009 at the Dimension Data Pro-Am.

Between 1996 and 2007, Pappas played extensively in the United States, winning two tournaments on the Buy.com Tour, the first in 2000 and the second the following year he played three seasons on the PGA Tour, the first in 1999 after finishing tied for second place at qualifying school. Pappas and his younger brother, Brenden, in 2001 became the first brothers to graduate simultaneously to the PGA Tour by finishing in the top 15 on the Buy.com Tour money list.

Pappas lives in Arkansas in the United States with his wife Shona, and two children, Callen and Devyn. They currently live in Jonesboro.

Professional wins (5)

Sunshine Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	11 Feb 2001	South African PGA Championship	−19 (68-67-67-67=269)	3 strokes	Don Gammon
2	25 Jan 2009	Dimension Data Pro-Am	−20 (65-66-69-68=268)	8 strokes	James Kamte

Buy.com Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	18 Jun 2000	Buy.com Cleveland Open	−15 (70-67-69-67=273)	1 stroke	Tjaart van der Walt
2	18 Mar 2001	Buy.com Monterrey Open	−17 (67-68-67-69=271)	1 stroke	Keoke Cotner, Tim Petrovic

Other wins (1)

2002 Nelson Mandela Invitational (with Hugh Baiocchi)

Results in major championships

Tournament	2010
U.S. Open	CUT

CUT = missed the halfway cut
Note: Pappas only played in the U.S. Open.

Team appearances

Amateur

Eisenhower Trophy (representing Greece): 1988

References

External links

Deane Pappas at the Sunshine Tour official site
Deane Pappas at the PGA Tour official site
Deane Pappas at the Official World Golf Ranking official site