Dylan Frittelli Facts: 20 Things To Know About The South African Golfer

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Dylan Frittelli Facts

1. Dylan Frittelli was born in Johannesburg on June 5th 1990.

2. His had his first golf lesson at the age of 12.

3. He won the 2007 Callaway Junior World Golf Championships for boys aged 15 to 17.

4. Frittelli also won the 2008 South African Boys' Championship.

5. He represented South Africa at the 2008 and 2010 Eisenhower Trophy.

6. Frittelli played college golf at the University of Texas on the same 'Texas Longhorn' team as Jordan Spieth. In 2012, he holed the winning putt for the team's first NCAA Championship victory in 40 years.

7. He posted a 3.40 GPA as a geography major and won the 2012 B,yron Nelson Award given to the top academic golfer in the USA.

8. Frittelli turned pro in 2012.

9. He primarily played on the Sunshine and Challenge Tours before reaching the European Tour in 2017.

10. His maiden professional title came on the Challenge Tour (now the HotelPlanner Tour) at the Karten Golf Open in 2013, before picking up a second win on the circuit at the 2016 Rolex Challenge.

11. He won twice on the European Tour in 2017, at the Lyoness Open and Mauritius Open.

12. He was named 2017 European Tour Graduate of the Year.

13. He secured a PGA Tour card for the 2017/2018 season via the Web.com Tour Finals.

14. Ahead of his Masters debut in 2018, Frittelli made a hole-in-one during the Par 3 Contest.

15. He has two top-five finishes in Majors, having placed T5 at the 2020 Masters and fifth at The Open the following year.

16. His first PGA Tour title came at the 2019 John Deere Classic, where he beat Russell Henley by two shots.

17. After a wait of over six years, Frittelli's third DP World Tour win came at the 2024 Bahrain Championship.

18. He has his own YouTube channel, Dylan Frittelli Golf, where he offers an insight into his life as a professional golfer.

19. He achieved a career-high world ranking of 44th in February 2018.

20. Away from golf, he enjoys surfing, tennis and making Lego.