Robert James "Bobby" Lincoln (born 8 September 1953) is a South African professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

er who was a regular winner on the Southern African Tour from 1985 to 2000, and now plays on the

European Seniors Tour The Legends Tour is the current branding of the European Senior Tour, a professional tour for male golfers aged 50 and over, run by the PGA European Tour. The tour was branded as the Staysure Tour for the 2018 and 2019 seasons after UK-based insur ...

. Lincoln played on the

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in the late 1970s and early 1980s with little success. He was over thirty before he found success on his home tour by winning the 1985 Wild Coast Pro-Am. He went on to win three times in each of the following three years. He served on the Southern Africa Tour Players Committee from 1991 to 2006 Lincoln joined the European Seniors Tour in 2006, and claimed his first senior win in 2007 at the Jersey Seniors Classic.

Professional wins (19)

Sunshine Tour wins (15)

*1985 Wild Coast Pro-Am *1986 Wild Coast Pro-Am, Bethlehem Classic *1987 Protea Assurance Challenge, Wild Coast Pro-Am, Bethlehem Classic *1988 AECI Charity Classic, Bethlehem Classic, Ronnie Bass Pro-Am *1989 Zululand Classic *1992 Amatola Sun Classic,

Trustbank Tournament of Champions The Trustbank Tournament of Champions was a professional golf tournament that was held in South Africa between 1985 and 1992. It was played at Kensington Golf Club in Johannesburg and was a fixture on the South African Tour, being the season ending ...

*1998

Platinum Classic The Platinum Classic was a golf tournament on the Sunshine Tour. It was founded in 1995, and was played at the nine-hole Mooinooi Golf Club, North West Province, South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is t ...

*1999 Bearing Man Highveld Classic,

Other wins (3)

*1986 Johnnie Walker Air Mauritius Golf Classic *2006 Nelson Mandela Invitational (with

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) *2008

Gary Player Invitational The Nelson Mandela Invitational was a charity golf tournament which took place annually in South Africa from 2000 until 2006. It was named in honor of former South African President Nelson Mandela, and hosted by South Africa's most successful prof ...

(with

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)

European Senior Tour wins (1)

Results in major championships

''Note: Lincoln only played in The Open Championship.''
CUT = missed the half-way cut

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