John Chillas

{{short description|Scottish golfer}}

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John Stalker Chillas (born 31 July 1951) is a Scottish professional golfer. He won the Scottish PGA Championship twice, in 1976 and 2001. He has also won three times on the European Seniors Tour. He tied for 52nd place in the 1984 Open Championship.

His best season on the Seniors Tour was 2004 when, in addition to winning the end-of-season Estoril Seniors Tour Championship, he was runner-up 5 times and third on two other occasions. From late August to late September he was runner-up in 4 successive tournaments, the Charles Church Scottish Seniors Open, the Bovis Lend Lease European Senior Masters, The Daily Telegraph Turismo Andaluz European Seniors Match Play Championship and the ADT English Seniors Open. He finished the season third in the order of merit.

Professional wins (6)

=Other wins (3)=

=European Seniors Tour wins (3)=

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! Legend

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| Tour Championships (1)

Other European Seniors Tour (2)

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!No.

!Date

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!Winning score

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!Runner-up

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|align=right|17 Aug 2003

|Travis Perkins Senior Masters

|−7 (70-70-69=209)

|1 stroke

|{{flagicon|IRL}} Eamonn Darcy

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|align=center|2

|align=right|24 Oct 2004

|Estoril Seniors Tour Championship

|−6 (69-70-68=207)

|2 strokes

|{{flagicon|AUS}} David Good

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|align=right|22 Sep 2007

|Scandinavian Senior Open

|−8 (70-67-68=205)

|Playoff

|{{flagicon|ENG}} Glenn Ralph

European Seniors Tour playoff record (1–0)

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!No.!!Year!!Tournament!!Opponent!!Result

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|2007

|Scandinavian Senior Open

|{{flagicon|ENG}} Glenn Ralph

|Won with par on fourth extra hole

Team appearances

  • PGA Cup (representing Great Britain and Ireland/Europe): 1982, 1983 (winners), 1984 (winners), 1988, 1992
  • UBS Cup (representing the Rest of the World): 2004

References

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