David Skinns | |
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Personal information | |
Full name | David Andrew Skinns |
Born | Lincoln, England | 1 February 1982
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Weight | 175 lb (79 kg; 12.5 st) |
Sporting nationality | England |
Career | |
College | University of Tennessee |
Turned professional | 2005 |
Current tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Former tour(s) | Korn Ferry Tour PGA Tour Canada NGA Hooters Tour |
Professional wins | 10 |
Number of wins by tour | |
Korn Ferry Tour | 3 |
Other | 7 |
David Andrew Skinns (born 1 February 1982) is an English professional golfer.
Skinns was born in Lincoln, England. He was the losing finalist in the 2000 Boys Amateur Championship. He attended the University of Tennessee and majored in psychology.[1][2]
Skinns competed on the NGA Hooters Tour and won seven times on the tour between 2008 and 2012.[3] He played in a number of event on the Web.com Tour in 2012 and 2014 and on the PGA Tour Canada in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
In 2017, Skinns started the season Web.com Tour season finale 115th on the money list. A T2 at the WinCo Foods Portland Open moved him to 58th. Skinns failed to earn a PGA Tour card, but was guaranteed full Web.com Tour status for the first time in his career. The next year, Skinns earned his first win on a major professional tour at the Pinnacle Bank Championship. He fell short again of qualifying for the PGA Tour, finishing 41st on the regular season money list and outside the top 25 in the Finals. Skinns won the same event in 2021, but this time, his win was enough to earn him a PGA Tour card.