John Mashego
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Mokgeteng John Mashego (born 3 January 1951) is a South African
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 wi ...
er who was the first black player to win a tournament on the
Southern African Tour The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern and East Africa. For much of its early history it was known either as the South African Tour or Sunshine Circuit; through sponsorship deals, it has also been known as the Vod ...
after it lifted its whites-only rule. His victory came at the 1991 Bushveld Classic, where he defeated
Steve van Vuuren Stephen Daniel van Vuuren (born 26 September 1959) is a South African professional golfer who currently plays on the Sunshine Tour. He won 7 times on the Sunshine Tour between 1994 and 2007. Van Vuuren was born Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa. ...
and Ian Palmer in a playoff. Mashego was born in
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,
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. He has played more than two hundred and fifty events on the tour, but he hasn't won again, the rules having been changed too late to allow him to play on the tour through his prime, though he finished sole or tied second in at least three more tournaments,Full tournament records are only available from the official site for 1992 onwards. including the Cock of the North event as late as 2000-01. Since 2002 he has played on the
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, where his best finish is second.


Professional wins (1)


Sunshine Tour wins (1)

*1991 Bushveld Classic


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* * South African male golfers Sunshine Tour golfers European Senior Tour golfers 1951 births Living people {{SouthAfrica-golf-bio-stub