Andrew Johnston (golfer)

For the American golfer, see Andrew Johnson (golfer).
Andrew Johnston
— Golfer —
Personal information
Nickname Beef[1]
Born (1989-02-18) 18 February 1989
London, England
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 96 kg (212 lb; 15.1 st)
Nationality  England
Residence Friern Barnet, England
Career
Turned professional 2009
Current tour(s) European Tour
PGA Tour
Former tour(s) Challenge Tour
Professional wins 4
Number of wins by tour
European Tour 1
Challenge Tour 2
Other 1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament DNP
U.S. Open T54: 2016
The Open Championship 8th: 2016
PGA Championship T60: 2016
Achievements and awards
Challenge Tour
Rankings winner		 2014

Andrew Johnston (born 18 February 1989) is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He has one win on the European Tour, which came at the 2016 Open de España. Known affectionately as 'Beef' since his youth, he has carried the nickname into his professional career, and is a popular character amongst the crowd.

Personal life

Johnston, who is of partial Jamaican descent,[2] was born in London in 1989 to a working-class family. His father worked as a bus driver and his mother as a school dinner lady.

He started playing golf at the age of four with his father and siblings in a local chip and putt course,[3] and later joined the North Middlesex Golf Club, which is still his home club today.[4] At 14 he was in The Middlesex Junior Squad, and became a scratch player at 16.[5]

Career

Johnston was a successful amateur, representing England boys and the Great Britain and Ireland team in the Jacques Léglise Trophy. He turned professional in 2009 and won for the first time that year on the Jamega Tour.[6] After a 2010 season split between the Jamega Tour, the PGA EuroPro Tour and invites to the Challenge Tour, Johnston enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2011. He played in his first European Tour event at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa, and qualified for his first major championship, the Open Championship, via local final qualifying at Royal Cinque Ports.[7] Johnston also recorded several good results from invites to the Challenge Tour, including a runner-up spot at the M2M Russian Challenge Cup. That qualified him for the Grand Final, where he finished in a tie for third to jump to 15th in the standings and secure a place on the European Tour for 2012.

Johnston played 20 events in his first season on the European Tour, without being able to make any top-10 result and ultimately failing to retaining his tour membership.

In 2013, he was back on the Challenge Tour, where he registered a 5th place at the Finnish Challenge and a 6th place at the Northern Ireland Open Challenge, but failed to gain the European Tour membership by finishing only 68th in the final Order of Merit. At the end of the year, he entered the European Tour Qualifying School; after winning the Second Qualifying Stage at Valle Romano Golf,[8] he again came short finishing 52nd at the final event at the PGA Catalunya Resort.

In 2014, Johnston finally found success in the Challenge Tour by winning two events, the Scottish Hydro Challenge and the Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge; he ended up winning also the final Order of Merit and regained his European Tour membership.

In his second season on the European Tour Johnston started with a 3rd place at the Alfred Dunhill Championship, but struggled to make other positive results, missing 11 cuts in 25 events. At the end of the season he was able to retain his tour card thanks to a 10th place at the Turkish Airlines Open.

His 2016 started in January with a 4th place at the Qatar Masters, after which Johnston earned his first European Tour win at the 2016 Real Club Valderrama Open de España. He went on to on secure two other top-10 results at the BMW PGA Championship and at the 145th Open Championship, where he enjoyed remarkable popularity for his look, personality and game.[9] After the Open he entered for the first time in his career the top-100 of the Official World Golf Ranking at the 89th place.[10]

In September Johnston entered the Web.com Tour Finals in an attempt to gain a PGA Tour card for 2017; he achieved that at the second event of the series, the Albertsons Boise Open, where he finished 4th.[11] As a result, he got a card for the 2017 PGA Tour.

Professional wins (4)

European Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runners-up
1 17 Apr 2016 Real Club Valderrama Open de España +1 (67-74-74-70=285) 1 stroke Netherlands Joost Luiten

Challenge Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runners-up
1 29 Jun 2014 Scottish Hydro Challenge −19 (66-65-68-66=265) 3 strokes Germany Moritz Lampert, Australia Terry Pilkadaris
2 27 Jul 2014 Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge −16 (66-69-69-64=268) 2 strokes South Korea An Byeong-hun, United States Connor Arendell,
Sweden Jens Fahrbring, France Clément Sordet (a)

Other wins (1)

Results in major championships

Tournament 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Masters Tournament DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T54
The Open Championship CUT DNP DNP DNP DNP 8
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T60

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

Team appearances

Amateur

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Open golfer: 'Why they call me 'Beef". BBC. 13 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Zgoda, Jerry. "Andrew 'Beef' Johnston reaches folk-hero status among golf fans at PGA". The Star Tribune. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Andrew 'Beef' Johnston: The big Brit on day he bit off more than he could chew at The Open, and how he got his nickname". 2016-07-25. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
  4. ↑ "The Season So Far : North Middlesex Golf Club - CLUB View". www.northmiddlesexgc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
  5. ↑ "10 Things you need to know about Andrew "Beef" Johnston (including why he is called Beef) ‹ 19th Hole – The Golf Blog From Your Golf Travel". www.yourgolftravel.com. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
  6. ↑ Red Golf profile
  7. ↑ North Middlesex golfer Andrew Johnston qualifies for Open Championship
  8. ↑ "Johnston finishes top at Valle Romano". PGA European Tour. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  9. ↑ Wojciechowski, Gene (17 July 2016). "Bearded 'Beef' turning heads at Open". ESPN. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  10. ↑ "Official World Golf Ranking - Andrew Johnston". 1 October 2016.
  11. ↑ Andrew "Beef" Johnston earns his PGA Tour card

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