Mark Brown (born 9 February 1975) is a New Zealand

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. He was particularly successful in 2007 and 2008. In early 2008 he won the SAIL Open Golf Championship and the

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in successive weeks and was in the world top 100 for much of 2008. He played on the

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from 2008 to 2011.

Early life and professional career

Brown was born in

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. He had played golf on the

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, the

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and the

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without much success until 2007 when he had four top-ten finishes on the Asian Tour and finished 15th on the Order of Merit. In 2008, he won his first Asian Tour event at the SAIL Open Golf Championship at Jaypee Greens in India. The following week he won the

, which was also held in India and was co-sanctioned by the

and the PGA Tour of Australasia. This victory propelled Brown to 64th in the

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and he became the highest ranked golfer from New Zealand. He finished 2008 by winning the PGA Tour of Australasia's Order of Merit. Brown played on the

from 2008 to 2011 but lost his place on the tour after 2011. Apart from his win in 2008, his best finish was to be tied for 3rd place in the 2009

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. From 2012 he played mostly on the

and the OneAsia tour. He was runner-up in the 2012

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and the 2014

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. He has won four times on the

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, all his wins coming in the Carrus Open at the Tauranga Golf Club in

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. He twice scored 59 in the Carrus Open, both in the second round. He first achieved it in 2014, when he won the event, and repeated the feat in 2018, when he eventually finished as a runner-up.

Professional wins (7)

European Tour wins (1)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

and the

Asian Tour wins (2)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

and the

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

and the

Charles Tour wins (4)

Golf Tour of New Zealand wins (1)

*2006 Olex Taranaki Open

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Results in World Golf Championships

"T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing New Zealand):

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

Professional *

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(representing New Zealand):

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

References

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