Enjoyed a successful amateur career, winning six major amateur tournaments in his native South Africa in 2005 and 2006, and in the latter year having 13 top ten finishes.

Took up Affiliate Membership at the start of 2011 and won the Avantha Masters in India the following February.

The closest he came to adding to his sole European Tour victory came at the first event of the 2014 season, the South African Open Championship hosted by the City of Ekurhuleni, where he finished in a tie for second place. Regarded as one of the pound-for-pound longest drivers on Tour despite his small frame.