Ian Stanley Palmer is a South Africa

South Africa

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Palmer was born in Uitenhage

Uitenhage

Uitenhage is a South African town with 275,185 inhabitants in the Eastern Cape Province. It is well known for the Volkswagen factory located there, which is the biggest car factory on the African continent. The town's name is pronounced by English speakers and in Afrikaans...

. He turned professional in 1981 and has won the 1985 PAN AM Wild Coast Sun Classic and the 1991 Nissan Challenge on the Southern Africa Tour. He also played on the European Tour for several years, winning the 1992 Johnnie Walker Asian Classic and the 1993 Jersey European Airways Open. He finished a career best 45th on the European Tour Order of Merit in each of those two seasons.

European Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	2 Feb 1992	Johnnie Walker Asian Classic	-20 (66-67-67-68=268)	1 stroke	Bernhard Langer Bernhard Langer Bernhard Langer is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion, and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 90s, being the first official number one ranked player in 1986... ,   Brett Ogle Brett Ogle Brett Ogle is an Australian professional golfer.Ogle was born in Sydney, New South Wales, where he still resides. He turned professional in 1985, joining the PGA Tour of Australasia the following year... ,   Ronan Rafferty Ronan Rafferty Ronan P. Rafferty is an Northern Irish professional golfer, who formerly played on the European Tour.Rafferty was born in Newry, Northern Ireland. He won the Boys Amateur Championship aged fifteen and played in the Walker Cup aged seventeen...
2	20 Jun 1993	Jersey European Airways Open	-20 (68-67-70-63=268)	2 strokes	Sam Torrance Sam Torrance Sam Torrance OBE is a Scottish professional golfer and sports commentator. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s, with 21 Tour wins. Torrance was a member of European Ryder Cup teams on eight occasions, from 1981 to 1995 consecutively; he was...

Sunshine Tour wins (3)

• 1985 PAN AM Wild Coast Sun Classic
• 1989 State Mines Open
• 1991 Nissan Challenge

Results in major championships

Tournament	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open U.S. Open (golf) The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf, and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship The Open Championship The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
PGA Championship PGA Championship The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

DNP = Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

"T" indicates a tie for a place

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