Player Profile

Penge will make his second appearance in the Nedbank Golf Challenge in honour of Gary Player.
The Englishman was one of the most in-form golfers in the game last year as he won three times on the DP World Tour in a six-month stretch that transformed his career.

He ended the season in second place on the overall Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World and climbed inside the top 30 on the Official World Golf Ranking, as well as narrowly missing out on a place on the European team for the 2025 Ryder Cup.

He was also voted the 2025 DP World Tour Player of the Year. It was a well-deserved recognition for a player who faced a period of uncertainty when in 2021 he was sidelined for 15 months because of a knee injury caused by arthritis and which required surgery.

Although first picking up a golf club at the age of six, Penge’s first sporting love was football and he went for trials with both Reading FC and Southampton FC. But golf began to show itself as his true talent, and in 2015 he claimed the Scottish Stroke Play Championship amongst his list of amateur titles.

He has enjoyed previous success in South Africa, finishing third in the 2025 Investec South African Open Championship in Durban.

Penge made his debut in The Masters in 2026 and finished tied 49th, and then added a finish of tied 18th in The Open at Royal Birkdale for his highest Major finish to date.