Bradley Hughes (golfer)

Bradley Hughes (born 10 February 1967) is an Australian professional golfer.

Bradley Hughes
Personal information
Born (1967-02-10) 10 February 1967
Melbourne, Australia
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight89 kg (196 lb; 14.0 st)
Sporting nationality Australia
ResidenceSimpsonville, South Carolina, U.S.
Career
Turned professional1988
Former tour(s)PGA Tour
European Tour
Japan Golf Tour
PGA Tour of Australasia
Nationwide Tour
Professional wins7
Highest ranking98 (6 June 1999)[1]
Number of wins by tour
Asian Tour1
PGA Tour of Australasia4
Korn Ferry Tour1
Other2
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentCUT: 1998
PGA ChampionshipCUT: 1999
U.S. OpenT16: 1997
The Open ChampionshipT45: 1996

Amateur career

Hughes was born in Melbourne. As an amateur golfer, he won the 1987 and 1988 Victorian Amateur Championship, the 1988 New Zealand Amateur and represented Australia in several competitions including the 1988 Eisenhower Trophy.

Professional career

Hughes turned professional in October 1988. He finished in 7th place at his first event, the Tasmanian Open, 12th place in his second event, the New South Wales Open, and then took the title in his third event, the Western Australian Open.

He has played on the PGA Tour of Australasia (1988–), European Tour (1990, 1996), Japan Golf Tour (1992–1994), PGA Tour (1997–2002, 2005) and Nationwide Tours (2003–2004, 2006). He participated in the 1994 Presidents Cup for the international team; he was a last-minute replacement for Greg Norman. Hughes remains the lowest-ranked player ever to compete in the Presidents Cup, 117th at the time of selection.[2]

Hughes quit playing competitive golf near the end of 2008 and now teaches at Holly Tree CC in Greenville, South Carolina. He has been credited with helping the resurgence of Brendon Todd on the PGA Tour. He also coaches Brandt Snedeker, Harold Varner III, Cameron Percy, Greg Chalmers, Ben Martin, Robert Allenby and Ollie Schniederjans as well as a host of mini-tour players.

Professional wins (7)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (4)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 30 Oct 1988 Western Australian Open −4 (71-71-67-75=284) 1 stroke Australia Ken Trimble
2 21 Feb 1993 Microsoft Australian Masters −11 (70-72-73-66=281) Playoff Australia Peter Senior
3 27 Oct 1996 Australian Players Championship1 −14 (70-65-66-69=270) 12 strokes Australia Peter Lonard, Australia Robert Stephens
4 15 Feb 1998 Ericsson Masters (2) −24 (63-72-66-67=268) 5 strokes Australia Mathew Goggin

1Co-sanctioned by the Asian PGA Tour

PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (1–0)

No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
1 1993 Microsoft Australian Masters Australia Peter Senior Won with par on first extra hole

Nationwide Tour wins (1)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runners-up
1 1 Aug 2004 Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open −14 (71-65-69-65=270) Playoff United States Erik Compton, United States Hunter Haas,
United States Scott Harrington

Nationwide Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 2004 Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open United States Erik Compton, United States Hunter Haas,
United States Scott Harrington		 Won with birdie on first extra hole

TRGA Tour wins (1)
  • 2011 TRGA Las Vegas Classic[3]

Other wins (1)

Playoff record

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 1992 Daiwa KBC Augusta Taiwan Chen Tze-ming, Japan Norikazu Kawakami Chen won with birdie on first extra hole

Results in major championships
Tournament 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Masters Tournament CUT
U.S. Open T39 T45 T16 CUT
The Open Championship CUT T45 T49 CUT
PGA Championship CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

See also

References
  1. "Week 23 1999 Ending 6 Jun 1999" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  2. Everill, Ben (5 November 2019). "The unlikeliest Presidents Cupper". PGA Tour.
  3. 2011 TRGA Championship


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