David McKenzie

He got his start in golf from his grandfather. He previously worked as a bank teller and would probably be working as a stock trader if he weren't playing professional golf.
McKenzie played on the PGA Tour of Australasia starting in 1990. After twice finishing 2nd at the 1994 Air New Zealand Shell Open and a playoff loss at the 2004 MasterCard Masters. He won his first Tour event at the 2013 Turner Plumbing Victorian PGA Championship. In 1997 joined and played on the Canadian Tour until he qualified for the Korn Ferry Tour in 2001. He played full-time on that tour in 2001, '04, '05, '07-2010. He played in 183 events making 111 cuts and winning $1,014,628. He was in the top ten 24 times with a win at the 2005 Gila River Golf Classic. He was runner-up 4 times and third 4 times. His best year was in 2005 in 25 starts, made 20 cuts, and had six top-ten finishes, including a victory in the Gila River Classic. He finished 11th on the money list with $253,174, which got him a shot at playing on the PGA Tour.
Unfortunately, things didn't work out in 2016; he played in 28 events and made 12 cuts. They had two top-tens, T-9th at the Buick Championship and 7th at the Valero Texas Open, but with earnings that year of $425,228, he was 160th on the money list. After missing the cut in that year's last event, McKenzie never played again on the PGA Tour, returning to the Korn Ferry Tour for the next four years. After poor results ended his Korn Ferry Tour career in 2011, he played on mini-tours, the PGA Tour China Series, and Mackenzie Canada Tour. Won twice in China in 2014, at the Lanhai Open and Cadillac Championship, at the time, was the first to win multiple times on that tour. On the Canada Tour in 2015 had one top-ten, T-4th, at the Staal Foundation Open.
He has played in 42 European Tour events over 20 years, and his best finish fell in his last event on that tour. He was T-2nd at the 2017 Fiji International, 4 back of winner Jason Norris. This event was a co-sanctioned event with few European Tour members at it, but it's still considered a start on that tour.
2017 Notes: On turning 50, open qualified for the Senior Open Championship in Wales. He finished T-9th in his first start in a PGA Tour Champions/European Senior event. The highlight of his effort was an ace on No. 8 in the final round at Royal Porthcawl. After that flew off to Fiji for his runner-up finish, then jetted to Seattle and qualified for the Boeing Classic; he finished T-36th at that. He qualified for the Pacific Links Bear Mountain Championship, where he shared the 36-hole lead with Jerry Smith at 12-under-par 130 before eventually finishing T-3rd after a final-round 71. He survived a three-man playoff to secure the final open qualifier spot at the SAS Championship, where he finished 5th, his third top-10 finish in five starts. He could advance and play in two Charles Schwab Cup playoff events with a good finish. He finished 53rd on the money list, only playing in 7 events. He went to PGA Tour Champions Q-school but finished T-12th.
2018 Notes: Played in 23 PGA Champions events with two top-ten finishes. He has been able to play steadily; his best finish is T-3rd at the Rapiscan Systems Classic, finishing 4 back of winner Steve Stricker. He was also T-3rd at the Invesco QQQ Championship, 3 shots back of winner Scott Parel. He failed to advance to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, finishing 42nd in the standings.
2019 Notes: Played in 23 PGA Tour Champions events with three top-tens. He was 36th in the final Schwab Rankings. It was the T-10th Hoag Classic. He posted scores of 70-70-68-70 = 278 (-2) and was T-5th at The Senior Open Championship, He was four shots back of winner Bernhard Langer, and it was his best finish in 10 major starts. He finished 2nd at the SAS Championship, matched a career-best score with a final-round 63, and was a shot back of winner Jerry Kelly.
2020 & 2021 Notes: Played in 34 PGA Tour Champions with three top-ten finishes. He was 54th on the Schwab Cup points list. He was T-10th at the 2020 Hoag Classic. Was T-6th at the 2021 Regions Tradition. Finished T-6th at the Shaw Charity Classic, seven shots back of winner Doug Barron and ended his season with a T-42nd at the Dominion Energy Charity.
2022 Notes: Played in 15 PGA Tour Champions events with two top-ten finishes. It was 58th in the Schwab rankings and 57th on the money list with earnings of $328,717. T-8th at the Rapiscan Systems Classic. After starting the week as the third alternate at the Boeing Classic, he finished 2nd to match his best finish on PGA Tour Champions. With rounds of 73-64-66, he finished 13-under, two shots behind champion Miguel Angel Jimenez. His last event of the season was 63rd at the Dominion Energy Charity. Returned to Q-School and was T-3rd.
2023 Notes: Best finish T-10th at the Mitsubishi Electric Classic.