Won the Belgian Open on his first year on The European Tour back in 1979, but then had to wait until 1991 for his second success at the Open de Baleares. However, in between, he did produce five victories in his native country, including the 1984 South African PGA Championship and the 1985 South African Open. He also headed the South African Tour Order of Merit in 1984. Turned professional in 1978 after a successful amateur career during which he represented his country nine times as well as winning the 1975 South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship, the 1978 French Open Amateur Championship and the 1978 Rhodesian Amateur Championship. Since leaving The European Tour at the start of the 1990s, he has served as chairman of the South African PGA and has been a regular competitor on that circuit. In 2003 he was named South Africa’s PGA Teacher of the Year.