Oosthuizen after winning the 2010 Open Championship at St Andrews.
Personal information
Full name
Lodewicus Theodorus Oosthuizen
Nickname
Shrek
Born
(1982-10-19) 19 October 1982 (age 41) Mossel Bay, South Africa
Height
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight
170 lb (77 kg; 12 st)
Sporting nationality
South Africa
Residence
Mossel Bay, South Africa Ocala, Florida, U.S.[1]
Spouse
Nel-Mare Oosthuizen
(m. 2007)
Children
3[2]
Career
Turned professional
2002
Current tour(s)
Asian Tour Sunshine Tour LIV Golf
Former tour(s)
PGA Tour European Tour
Professional wins
16
Highest ranking
4 (13 January 2013)[3]
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour
1
European Tour
11
Asian Tour
3
Sunshine Tour
10
PGA Tour of Australasia
1
Best results in major championships (wins: 1)
Masters Tournament
2nd: 2012
PGA Championship
T2: 2017, 2021
U.S. Open
2nd/T2: 2015, 2021
The Open Championship
Won: 2010
Lodewicus Theodorus "Louis" Oosthuizen (Afrikaans pronunciation:[ˈlu.iˈuəstɦœizən]; born 19 October 1982) is a South African professional golfer who won the 2010 Open Championship. He has finished runner-up in all four major championships: the 2012 Masters Tournament, the 2015 and 2021 U.S. Open, the 2015 Open Championship, and the PGA Championship in 2017 and 2021. His highest placing on the Official World Golf Ranking is fourth, which he reached in January 2013.[4]
^"Oosthuizen retirement plans start with a ranch in Florida". AP. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
^"Louis Oosthuizen biography". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
^"Week 02 2013 Ending 13 Jan 2013" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
^"Official World Golf Ranking for Louis Oosthuizen". Official Golf World Ranking. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
Lodewicus Theodorus "Louis" Oosthuizen (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈlu.i ˈuəstɦœizən]; born 19 October 1982) is a South African professional golfer who...
like riding a tractor for LouisOosthuizen". Golf Digest. Retrieved 15 July 2021. Hoggard, Rex (15 July 2021). "LouisOosthuizen back on major horse, er...
Championship." The standard branding returned the following year. LouisOosthuizen won his only major championship with 272 (−16), seven strokes clear...
championship on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff, defeating LouisOosthuizen. It was his first major title and his fourth victory on the PGA Tour...
lead with fourth-round playing partner LouisOosthuizen at ten-under-par. In the sudden-death playoff, Oosthuizen and Watson both made par on the uphill...
and sixth major, two strokes ahead of runners-up Brooks Koepka and LouisOosthuizen. Aged fifty years and eleven months, he became the oldest to win a...
Kevin Kisner (19) Jason Kokrak Adrian Meronk Kevin Na Alex Norén (19) LouisOosthuizen Thomas Pieters (19) Harold Varner III 19. The leading 50 players on...
at the Old Course at St Andrews. The most recent was in 2010 when LouisOosthuizen won his only major title and became the second South African to win...
Championship. Grace won the event by 7 strokes from fellow South African LouisOosthuizen. Grace soon followed this up with his second win of the 2015 season...
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III, Kevin Kisner (18,19), Jason Kokrak, Hideki Matsuyama (18,19), LouisOosthuizen (18,19), Brandt Snedeker (18,19) 18. Top 50 on the final 2019 Official...
final round to finish in a tie for first place with Zach Johnson and LouisOosthuizen. Leishman did have the sole lead of the Championship with six holes...
9,10) 4. Last five British Open Champions Darren Clarke Ernie Els LouisOosthuizen 5. Current Senior PGA Champion Colin Montgomerie 6. 15 low scorers...
just the second at Pinehurst No. 2. On July 20, 2015, Johnson beat LouisOosthuizen and Marc Leishman in a four-hole playoff to win the Open Championship...
Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri Dean Burmester, Branden Grace, LouisOosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel. Abraham Ancer, Eugenio Chacarra, Sergio García...
British Open Champions Stewart Cink Darren Clarke Ernie Els (12,17,18) LouisOosthuizen (17,18) 4. Last five PGA Champions Keegan Bradley (16,17,18) Jason...
finishers and ties in the 2015 U.S. Open Branden Grace (14,17,18) LouisOosthuizen (13,16,17,18) Cameron Smith 13. Top 4 finishers and ties in the 2015...
bogeys in his final round to shoot 15-under 269 at TPC Twin Cities. LouisOosthuizen, Jhonattan Vegas and Charl Schwartzel tied for second. Champ is of...
there was no championship in 1871). Lowest score after 36 holes: 129, LouisOosthuizen (64-65), 2021. Lowest score after 54 holes: 197, Shane Lowry (67-67-63)...
career major title, two strokes ahead of runners-up Francesco Molinari, LouisOosthuizen, and Patrick Reed. In the United States, the Championship was televised...
2012, Bubba Watson won the tournament on the second playoff hole over LouisOosthuizen. In 2013 Adam Scott won the Masters in a playoff over 2009 champion...
finishers and ties in the 2017 PGA Championship Francesco Molinari (17,18) LouisOosthuizen (17,18) Patrick Reed (16,17,18) 15. Winners of PGA Tour events that...
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