Danny Chia
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Danny Chia | |
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Personal information | |
Born | 29 November 1972 |
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
Weight | 165 lb (75 kg; 11.8 st) |
Sporting nationality | Malaysia |
Residence | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Career | |
Turned professional | 1996 |
Current tour(s) | Asian Tour |
Professional wins | 19 |
Number of wins by tour | |
Asian Tour | 2 |
Other | 17 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | T55: 2010 |
Chinese name | |
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Traditional Chinese | 謝志榮[1] |
Simplified Chinese | 谢志荣 |
Hanyu Pinyin | Xiè Zhìróng |
Hokkien POJ | Chiā Chì-êng |
Danny Chia (born 29 November 1972) is a Malaysian professional golfer.
Chia was the leading Malaysian amateur in the mid-1990s and turned professional in 1996. He plays on the Asian Tour, where he won the 2002 Taiwan Open. He was the first Malaysian to win on the Tour. He has also won several lower profile professional tournaments in Malaysia and elsewhere.
In 2002, Chia became the second Malaysian to play in The Open Championship (and the first from a mainstream Malaysian background; his predecessor Iain Steel has a Scottish father, and attended school in Scotland and college in the United States, and therefore has a much more traditional golfing pedigree). Chia represented Malaysia in the WGC-World Cup in 2001 and 2002.
Amateur wins (6)[]
- 1993 Malaysian Amateur Championship, Selangor Amateur Open (Malaysia)
- 1994 Malaysian Amateur Championship, Selangor Amateur Open (Malaysia)
- 1995 Malaysian Amateur Championship, Selangor Amateur Open (Malaysia)
Professional wins (18)[]
Asian Tour wins (2)[]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 22 Sep 2002 | Acer Taiwan Open | +3 (76-70-77-68=291) | 2 strokes | Hsieh Yu-shu, |
2 | 3 Oct 2015 | Mercuries Taiwan Masters | −3 (67-70-73-73=285) | 2 strokes | Liang Wenchong |
Asian Development Tour wins (4)[]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 9 Mar 2013 | PGM Northport Glenmarie Masters | −8 (67-68-74-71=280) | 1 stroke | Nicholas Fung |
2 | 10 May 2014 | PGM Northport Glenmarie Championship (2) | −13 (72-67-68-68=275) | Playoff | |
3 | 19 Sep 2015 | PGM Bukit Jawi Championship | −21 (67-66-69-65=267) | 6 strokes | |
4 | 14 May 2016 | PGM Bukit Jawi Championship (2) | −18 (71-67-65-67=270) | 5 strokes | Gavin Green, Ben Leong |
Other wins (13)[]
- 1996 EVA Air Open (Singapore), Jakarta Raya Open (Indonesia)
- 1999 Singapore Mini Tour event, Malaysian Mini Tour event
- 2001 Champion of Champions (Singapore), PNB OOM Challenge (Malaysia)
- 2002 Sime Darby Masters (Malaysia)
- 2003 Genting Masters (Malaysia), Classic I (Malaysia), Classic II (Malaysia)
- 2004 Kinrara Masters (Malaysia)
- 2007 International Championship (Indonesia)
- 2008 Mercedes-Benz Masters (Thailand)
Results in major championships[]
Tournament | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
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The Open Championship | CUT | CUT | T55 |
Note: Chia only played in The Open Championship.
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Results in World Golf Championships[]
Tournament | 2015 |
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Championship | |
Match Play | |
Invitational | |
Champions | 67 |
Team appearances[]
Professional
References[]
- ^ "台灣名人賽 馬來西亞選手謝志榮首輪領先 潘政琮暫列第七". Xin Media. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
External links[]
- Danny Chia at the Asian Tour official site
- Danny Chia at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
- Malaysian male golfers
- Asian Tour golfers
- Malaysian people of Chinese descent
- Olympic golfers of Malaysia
- Golfers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- 1972 births
- Living people