Simon Wakefield

Simon Wakefield
Wakefield at the KLM Dutch Open in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Simon Wakefield
Born	(1974-04-14) 14 April 1974 (age 43) Newcastle-under-Lyme, England
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Nationality	England
Residence	Newcastle-under-Lyme, England
Career
Turned professional	1997
Current tour(s)	European Tour
Professional wins	2
Number of wins by tour
Sunshine Tour	1
Challenge Tour	1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	T19: 2008
PGA Championship	DNP

Simon Wakefield (born 14 April 1974) is an English professional golfer.

Wakefield was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire and is the nephew of former England cricketer Bob Taylor. He won the 1996 Tillman Trophy in addition to several county amateur championships before turning professional in 1997.

Early in his career, Wakefield played predominantly on the second tier Challenge Tour before winning a place on the European Tour via qualifying school at the end of 1999. He failed to reatin his tour card during his rookie season and dropped back to the Challenge Tour for 2001. He won his first professional tournament in 2002 at the Tessali Open del Sud, and went on to finish 9th on the Challenge Tour Rankings to graduate back to the European Tour for 2003.

Wakefield finished the 2003 European Tour season inside the top 100 on the Order of Merit to retain his card, but was back at the tour school at the end of 2004 having just missed out on keeping his place via the money list. He won his card back, and has secured his place on the European Tour since then with solid performances, although he has yet to win a tournament at the highest level. In 2005, he won his second professional title, the Dimension Data Pro-Am in South Africa.

European Tour playoff record (0–2)

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10.