| Oliver Bekker | |
| Birth Date: | 11 December 1984 |
| Birth Place: | Pretoria, South Africa |
| Weight: | 198lb |
| Residence: | Stellenbosch, South Africa |
| Yearpro: | 2008 |
| Tour: | European Tour Sunshine Tour |
| Extour: | Web.com Tour Challenge Tour LIV Golf |
| Prowins: | 8 |
| Sunwins: | 8 |
| Chalwins: | 1 |
| Masters: | DNP |
| Usopen: | CUT: 2017 |
| Open: | DNP |
| Pga: | CUT: 2022 |
| Award1: | Sunshine Tour Players' Player of the Year |
| Year1: | 2017–18 |
Oliver Bekker (born 11 December 1984) is a South African professional golfer.
Bekker plays on the Sunshine Tour where he has won seven times. He won the 2011 Northern Cape Classic, the 2012 Dimension Data Pro-Am,[1] the 2013 Telkom PGA Pro-Am and the 2016 Sun City Challenge. He won three times in 2017, the Zambia Sugar Open, the Lombard Insurance Classic, and the Sun Wild Coast Sun Challenge.
In April 2021, Bekker lost in a four-man playoff at the Limpopo Championship.[2] In December, he finished second in the SA Open Championship; one shot behind Daniel van Tonder.[3] At the end of the season he graduated to the European Tour for 2022 via the Challenge Tour rankings.[4]
In May 2022, Bekker broke into the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time after losing out in a playoff for the Catalunya Championship.[5] In June 2022, he played in the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series event. Along with several other players, he was subsequently fined by the European Tour and suspended from three PGA Tour co-sanctioned events.[6]
In February 2023, Bekker won the Dimension Data Pro-Am for the second time in his career. The event was co-sanctioned between the Challenge Tour and the Sunshine Tour.[7]
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 Sep 2011 | Northern Cape Classic | −15 (66-64-68=198) | 5 strokes |  Bryce Easton | |
| 2 | 19 Feb 2012 | Dimension Data Pro-Am | −13 (65-70-71-70=276) | 2 strokes | Thomas Aiken, Tyrone Ferreira | |
| 3 | 25 Jan 2013 | Telkom PGA Pro-Am | −20 (66-64-66=196) | 2 strokes | PH McIntyre, Ryan Strauss | |
| 4 | 6 Aug 2016 | Sun City Challenge | −6 (74-67-69=210) | 1 stroke | Shaun Norris | |
| 5 | 30 Apr 2017 | Zambia Sugar Open | −19 (68-66-67-72=273) | 2 strokes | Jared Harvey | |
| 6 | 21 May 2017 | Lombard Insurance Classic | −19 (63-70-64=197) | Playoff | Justin Harding | |
| 7 | 25 Aug 2017 | Sun Wild Coast Sun Challenge | −11 (69-65-65=199) | 3 strokes | Tyrone Ferreira, Alex Haindl, Ockie Strydom | |
| 8 | 12 Feb 2023 | Dimension Data Pro-Am1 (2) | −22 (67-68-64-68=267) | 4 strokes |  Adam Blommé |
Sunshine Tour playoff record (1–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2017 | Lombard Insurance Classic | Justin Harding | Won with par on first extra hole | |
| 2 | 2021 | Limpopo Championship | Hennie du Plessis, Brandon Stone, Daniel van Tonder | Stone won with birdie on first extra hole |
Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1)
European Tour playoff record (0–1)
Results not in chronological order in 2020.
| Tournament | 2017 | 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | |||
| U.S. Open | CUT | ||
| The Open Championship | |||
| PGA Championship |
| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | |||||
| PGA Championship | CUT | ||||
| U.S. Open | |||||
| The Open Championship | NT |
| Tournament | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match Play | ||||||||
| Championship | ||||||||
| Invitational | 75 | |||||||
| Champions | T69 |