Christiaan Bezuidenhout started playing golf at the age of four, growing up next to Delmas GC in South Africa. He excelled as a junior and thrived in his four years as a member of the Ernie Els & Fancourt Foundation, founded by Ernie in 1999 to provide educational assistance and golfing opportunities for youngsters predominantly from families of limited resources.
Christiaan turned professional in 2015, winning the Order of Merit on the Big Easy Tour, the developmental tour for the Sunshine Tour. He was Rookie of the Year on the Sunshine Tour in 2017 and earned a DP World Tour card for 2018. Finding his feet quickly, Christiaan claimed his maiden Tour title in 2019 at the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucia Masters hosted by the Sergio Garcia Foundation. The following season Christiaan started the year with victory at the Dimension Data Pro-Am, a co-sanctioned event between the Sunshine Tour and the Challenge Tour, and then at the end of the year secured back-to-back DP World Tour wins on home soil at the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the South African Open.
Christiaan finished 2020 seventh on the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai and broke into the Top-50 of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time. In 2021 he represented South Africa in the Olympics in Tokyo and, at the end of that season, earned his 2021-22 PGA TOUR card after finishing fifth in the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. Christiaan would then tee it up in 24 tournaments across 12 US states and Mexico, making the cut 20 times and accumulating $2,233,289 in prize money. In this, his rookie year, he finished a creditable 51st in the FedEx Cup. The icing on the cake was a captain’s pick for the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow. In 2023 Christiaan had a solid year, finishing comfortably inside the requisite top-125 on the FedEx Cup to guarantee his playing privileges for 2024.
Christiaan currently resides in Florida with his wife, Kristen. In November 2023 the couple were blessed to welcome their first child to the world, a son, John Christiaan.
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