Danny Chia

Danny Chia
Personal information
Full nameDanny Chia Chee Wing
Born (1972-11-29) 29 November 1972 (age 51)
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight165 lb (75 kg; 11.8 st)
Sporting nationality Malaysia
ResidenceKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Career
Turned professional1996
Current tour(s)Asian Tour
Former tour(s)Asian Development Tour
ASEAN PGA Tour
Professional Golf of Malaysia Tour
Professional wins29
Number of wins by tour
Asian Tour2
Other27
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenDNP
The Open ChampionshipT55: 2010
Achievements and awards
Professional Golf of Malaysia Tour
Order of Merit winner
2015
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese謝志榮[1]
Simplified Chinese谢志荣
Hanyu PinyinXiè Zhìróng
Hokkien POJChiā Chì-êng

Danny Chia Chee Wing (born 29 November 1972) is a Malaysian professional golfer.

Chia was the leading Malaysian amateur in the mid-1990s and turned professional in 1996. He plays on the Asian Tour, where he won the 2002 Taiwan Open. He was the first Malaysian to win on the Tour. He has also won several lower profile professional tournaments in Malaysia and elsewhere.

In 2002, Chia became the second Malaysian to play in The Open Championship (and the first from a mainstream Malaysian background; his predecessor Iain Steel has a Scottish father, and attended school in Scotland and college in the United States, and therefore has a much more traditional golfing pedigree). Chia represented Malaysia in the WGC-World Cup in 2001 and 2002.

  1. ^ "台灣名人賽 馬來西亞選手謝志榮首輪領先 潘政琮暫列第七". Xin Media. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2018.