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About Gavin Slabbert
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I was born February 13, 1955 in Port
Elizabeth, South Africa, began playing golf at the age of 6 and won my
first Junior Tournament at age 8.
While attending Grey High School, I played for the Eastern Province
Under 19 Team for three years and then for the Eastern province Under 23
Team for the next two. I continued to play and practice at my home
course, Port Elizabeth Golf Club (PEGC).
On the 2nd of May 1981 I married Lesley. We had our first child Nicole
in March of 1982, our second child Martin in August of 1983, and now our
1st grandchild, Austin, who was born in January 2004. My strong family
ties began with the great example set by my parents Desmond and Maria,
who have now been married for more than 50 years.
The majority of my professional life, spanning the past 25 years, has
been spent working as a computer engineer. My family and I immigrated to
the United States from South Africa in 1986, and settled in the Bay Area
of
California. In 1991 we moved to Roseville, California near
Sacramento, and we lived there until June of 2005. At that point Lesley
and I decided that in order to pursue my golfing career further we
needed to move to the golfing capital of the world, so it was off to
Orange Park Florida, (near Jacksonville) where we now reside. Both
Lesley and I became U.S. Citizens in 1996.
I have always lived an active lifestyle and have enjoyed being a part of
many great activities and hobbies over the years. I raced motorcycles in
the AMA Pro Thunder and 750 Superbike Classes, and am always up for a
good game of Chess. I love doing landscape, animal and underwater
photography, hiking, camping with my wife and friends, Scuba diving,
sailing and fishing in Kona, Hawaii with Captain Chuck Haupert as often
as possible.
My Rottweiler Logo is derived from raising 4 Rottweilers. I showed my
prized male Gunston to an American Canadian Championship and also showed
him successfully to the point that he was ranked in the top 10 in the
USA 1995.
When I married in ’81, I just stopped playing golf, I had to work on my
career and support a wife and family so golf just took a backseat to the
trials and tribulations of life. By the time I wiped my eyes it had been
21 years, and in that time I probably played less than ten rounds. My
son went to the US Air force in 2001 and my daughter got married, and I
guess I just started driving my wife crazy, so she suggested I go and
play a round of golf and get out of the house and out from under her
feet so in 2002 I started to play again. The rest as they say is history
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