Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE (born 7 April 1939) is an English television presenter, famed as both a pioneer of TV satire and for a series of legendary political interviews. He currently presents a weekly programme, Frost Over The World, on the Al Jazeera English Channel.
| + David Frost | |
| Personal Information | |
|---|---|
| Birth | September 11, 1959 Cape Town, South Africa |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
| Nationality | |
| College | None |
| Career | |
| Turned Pro | 1981 |
| Current tour | PGA Tour |
| Professional wins | 22 (PGA Tour: 10, Other: 12) |
| Best Results in Major Championships | |
| Masters | T5: 1995 |
| U.S. Open | T15: 1986 |
| British Open | 6th: 1987 |
| PGA Championship | T10: 1987 |
| Awards | |
| Sunshine Tour Order of Merit Winner | 1998/99 |
| Byron Nelson Award | 1987 |
David Laurence Frost (born 11 September 1959) is a South African golfer who has more than twenty professional tournament wins to his name, spread across four continents.
Frost was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He turned professional in 1981. He used to be a cigarette salesman. He scored his first professional win in his home country in 1983 and has continued to play in South Africa in the northern winter, but like other leading South African golfers he has spent far more time playing internationally. In line with many other Commonwealth golfers his first move abroad was to the European Tour and he played that tour from 1982 to 1984.
From 1985 he was primarily on the U.S. based PGA Tour, where he went on to win ten tournaments, the most prestigious of which was the 1989 World Series of Golf which he won by defeating Ben Crenshaw at the second playoff hole. He made the top ten on the PGA Tour money list twice, placing 9th in 1988 and 5th in 1993 and was ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 86 weeks between 1988 and 1994. By his forties, he was no longer a regular contender on the tour, but in 2005 he set the all time PGA Tour 72-hole putting record with 92 putts at the MCI Heritage while finishing only tied 38th.
Frost won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit in 1998/99. He was a member of the International Team in the first staging of the Presidents Cup in 1994, and took part again in 1996. In 1997 and 1998 he captained South Africa to victory in the Alfred Dunhill Cup in Scotland. His team mates were Ernie Els and Retief Goosen.
Frost owns a wine business which produces vintages named after golf legends such as Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.
David Frost is a controversial former sports agent, best known as the target of a murder-for-hire plot by one of his clients, former St. Louis Blues forward Mike Danton.
Prior to Danton's highly publicized arrest and trial, Frost achieved a degree of notoriety among some hockey insiders for his alleged Svengali-like control of certain players whom he coached (and later "represented" in various roles). On blank">August 22, 2006 Frost was charged with 12 counts of sexual exploitation by the _Ontario Provincial Police for crimes alleged during 1995-2001. The charges relate to his time as coach of the Quinte Hawks Junior hockey team and involve acts on three females and four males between the ages of 14 and 16.
Knighted in the 1993 New Year's Honours List.
Appointed an OBE in 1970 and knighted in 1993.
Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 172-173. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
He has interviewed the US Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter (I), Ronald Reagan (I), George Bush, Bill Clinton (I) and George W. Bush.
He has interviewed British Prime Ministers Harold Wilson (V), Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair (I).
His programme "Breakfast with Frost" (1993) ended shortly after the British General Election in May 2005.
