Current Pro Men’s Golfers from South Africa (PGA 2023)

Golfers, and athletes of all sports really, take pride in where they’re from. Whether it’s the state, city or area code – you always notice players wanting to rep their home area.

The whole Ryder Cup is basically built on the principle of competing and representing where you’re from.

Fans tend to do the same thing. It’s always more fun to pull for a player when they’re from your home state (or even your hometown).

With all that in mind, we went through the World Golf Rankings and pulled the home states (or countries) of every player in the top 200 (as of 5/19/23).

There are 28 countries (29 including the US) with at least one player representing them in the top 200.

South Africa is one of those countries. In fact, South Africa has 13 players in the top 200, second most of any country outside the US (second to England with 15).

Men’s Golfers from South Africa

Here are the 13 golfers from South Africa in the World Golf Rankings top 200 in the spring of 2023 including what town they’re from.

Name	City
Aaron Wise	Cape Town
Christiaan Bezuidenhout	Delmas
Dean Burmester
Erik van Rooyen	Johannesburg
Garrick Higgo	Johannesburg
Hennie Du Plessis	Kempton Park
Justin Rose	Johannesburg
Louis Oosthuizen	Mossel Bay
MJ Daffue	Pretoria
Ockie Strydom	Kempton Park
Oliver Bekker	Pretoria
Thriston Lawrence	Mbombela
Zander Lombard	Pretoria

Hall of Fame Golfers from South Africa

I figured someone searching for current players from the country of South Africa would probably also be interested in the Hall of Fame players from there as well.

So, here are the two players I found from South Africa in the World Golf Hall of Fame:

Name	City	Induction Year
Retief Goosen	Pietersburg	2019
Ernie Els	Johannesburg	2011
Nick Price	Durban, Natal	2003
Bobby Locke	Germiston	1977
Gary Player	Johannesburg	1974

Golf Hometown Fun Facts

England has the most players in the top 200 of any country outside the US. They’re followed by South Africa (13), Japan (12) and South Korea and Australia with 9 each.

To give you some context to how that compares to US States – California has the most golfers of any state in the top 200 with 21. Second most is Texas with 8, followed by Florida (7), and North Carolina and South Carolina with 5 each.