More Information About Rod Pampling

Rod Pampling
Personal information
Full name	Rodney Pampling
Born	23 September 1969 (1969-09-23) (age 40) Redcliffe, Queensland
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Nationality	Australia
Residence	Brisbane, Australia; Flower Mound, Texas, U.S.
Career
Turned professional	1994
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour (joined 2002) European Tour (joined 2009)
Professional wins	5
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	2
European Tour	1
PGA Tour of Australasia	2
Best results in Major Championships
The Masters	T5: 2005
U.S. Open	T14: 2008
Open Championship	T27: 2004, 2007
PGA Championship	T14: 2003

Rodney "Rod" Pampling (born 23 September 1969) is an Australian professional golfer.

Pampling was born in Redcliffe in Queensland. He turned professional in 1994. He began tournament golf career on the PGA Tour of Australasia, where he won the 1999 Canon Challenge, and also spent time on the NGA Hooters Tour, a developmental tour in the United States. In 2000 and 2001 he played on the PGA Tour's official developmental tour, the Buy.com Tour, now called the Nationwide Tour, and did well enough in his second season to gain promotion to the full PGA Tour.

In 1999, Pampling shot an opening round 71 at Carnoustie during the opening round of the Open Championship, leading the field. However, he shot an 86 in the second round to miss the cut.^[1]

He achieved his first PGA Tour win at The International in 2004 and his second at the 2006 Bay Hill Invitational, which took him into the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. He continues to play a few events in his home country each year during the northern hemisphere winter. He won the Sportsbet Australian Masters at Huntingdale Golf Club, Melbourne in November 2008, beating Marcus Fraser in a 3-hole playoff after the two players tied at a 12-under par 276. As a European Tour co-sanctioned event, that win also earned him a two year exemption on that tour.

PGA Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	8 Aug 2004	The International	+31 (15-7-7-2=31)	2 points	Alex ÄŒejka
2	19 Mar 2006	Bay Hill Invitational	-14 (70-65-67-72=274)	1 stroke	Greg Owen

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)

• 1999 Canon Challenge
• 2008 Sportsbet Australian Masters (co-sanctioned with European Tour - 2009 season)

Other wins (1)

• 2006 Merrill Lynch Shootout (with Jerry Kelly)

Results in major championships

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

References

External links

• Rod Pampling – Profile on the PGA Tour of Australasia's official site
• Rod Pampling – Profile on the PGA Tour's official site
• Rod Pampling – Profile on the European Tour's official site
• Rod Pampling – Results for the last two years from the Official World Golf Rankings site