Superstroke is a term used for a contemporary art movement with its origins in South Africa. Superstroke is one of the influential art movements regarding African modernism and abstraction. The word "Superstroke" implies the super expressive brush stroke. The Superstroke art movement was initially founded as a reaction to the impact that the Superflat art movement, founded by Takashi Murakami had on modern contemporary art.

Manifesto[link]

The manifesto for the Superstroke art movement was written in 2008 by the South African artist Conrad Bo and deals with various forms of how paintings in the movement should be executed. This includes the statement that paintings should be created by using very expressive brush strokes.

The manifesto also deals with photography and states that expressionism is more important than photo-realism. Then the manifesto states that abstract and figurative art is allowed in Superstroke. It goes further and states that certain subject matters are encouraged, and also makes mention of an [African] theme. Finally the manifesto states that the concept of "art for the sake of art" does not apply, and that members of the movement must produce paintings with texture, and excessive brush or pencil strokes.

Influences[link]

Although the concept of Superstroke was a reaction to Superflat, the paintings in the Superstroke art movement are heavily influenced by Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh.^{[citation needed]}

Artwork[link]

Art in Superstroke, varies from realism to abstract, monochrome and full color. Different media such as collage, charcoal and plaster of paris are used. Paintings in Superstroke are also identifiable by the frequent use of mathematical signs such as plus, minus, and equal signs.

Contributors[link]

Artists who's art are regarded as Superstroke are, Greg Simmonds, Diiezel, Mr. Sputnik, John Zaverdino, May Wentworth, Conrad Bo, Jaco Erwee

See also[link]

• Superflat
• Abstract Expressionism

References[link]

• One Small Seed Magazine - The South African Pop Culture Magazine
• Peffer, J. 2009. Art at the end of apartheid. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

External links[link]

• Information about the Superstroke art movement manifesto
• The Elements of Superstroke
• Superstroke Making waves

Joe Ogilvie
Personal information
Full name	Norman Joseph Ogilvie
Born	(1974-04-08) April 8, 1974 (age 38) Lancaster, Ohio
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	165 lb (75 kg; 11.8 st)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Austin, Texas
Career
College	Duke University
Turned professional	1996
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour
Former tour(s)	Nationwide Tour
Professional wins	5
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	1
Nationwide Tour	4
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	T25: 2005
U.S. Open	T36: 2008
The Open Championship	T25: 2001
PGA Championship	T17: 2005

Norman Joseph Ogilvie (born April 8, 1974) is an American professional golfer.

Ogilvie was born in Lancaster, Ohio and graduated from Duke University. He currently plays on the PGA Tour and picked up his first win on tour at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee in 2007. He has also won four tournaments on the Nationwide Tour.

Professional wins (5)[link]

PGA Tour wins (1)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runners-up
1	Jul 22, 2007	U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee	-14 (67-63-69-67=266)	4 strokes	Tim Clark, Tim Herron Charlie Wi

Nationwide Tour wins (4)[link]

• 1998 (2) NIKE Monterrey Open, NIKE Greensboro Open
• 2003 (2) Jacob's Creek Open, The Reese's Cup Classic

Results in major championships[link]

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

See also[link]

• 1999 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
• 2003 Nationwide Tour graduates
• 2009 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
• List of golfers with most Nationwide Tour wins

External links[link]

• Joe Ogilvie at the PGA Tour official site
• Joe Ogilvie at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

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Jason Dufner
Personal information
Full name	Jason Christopher Dufner
Born	(1977-03-24) March 24, 1977 (age 35) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg; 13 st)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Auburn, Alabama, U.S.
Spouse	Amanda Boyd
Career
College	Auburn University
Turned professional	2000
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour
Former tour(s)	Nationwide Tour
Professional wins	4
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	2
Nationwide Tour	2
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	T24: 2012
U.S. Open	T33: 2010
The Open Championship	CUT: 2010, 2011
PGA Championship	2nd: 2011

Jason Christopher Dufner (born March 24, 1977) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. His most notable moment came at the 2011 PGA Championship where he lost a four hole playoff to Keegan Bradley, having held a five stroke advantage with four holes to play.

Early life[link]

Dufner was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He moved to the Washington, D.C. area when he was 11 years old, and then to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida^[1] when he was 14. It was there that he started playing golf, and played for St. Thomas Aquinas High School during his sophomore, junior and senior years.^[2]

Amateur career[link]

Dufner was a walk-on at Auburn University, where he won three times in his college career and was an Honorable Mention All-American in 1997.^[2] He graduated from Auburn in 2000 with a degree in economics.^[3]

In 1998 Dufner played in the finals of the U.S. Amateur Public Links at Torrey Pines, falling to Trevor Immelman, 3 and 2.

Professional career[link]

In his early career, Dufner struggled to hold down a place on the PGA Tour. He was a member of the PGA Tour in 2004 and the Nationwide Tour in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006. Dufner won two events during his time on the Nationwide Tour, the BUY.COM Wichita Open in 2001 and the LaSalle Bank Open in 2006. He finished in 8th place on the Nationwide Tour money list in 2006 to earn his PGA Tour card for 2007. He finished 127th in the FedEx Cup standings in 2007, and failed to qualify at the PGA Tour Q-School, where he finished T149. He retained conditional status for the 2008 PGA Tour season, and then finished T11 at the Q-School that year to earn his card for 2009. He has been a member of the PGA Tour every year since. In 2009, Dufner finished in the top-10 on six occasions, including a third place finish at the RBC Canadian Open, and a runner up place at the Deutsche Bank Championship, part of the FedEx Cup playoffs. As a result, Dufner went on to finish the year 11th in the FedEx Cup standings and 33rd on the year's money list.^[4]

Dufner had a less successful 2010 season, recording only two top-10 finishes. However, his best finish of the year came in a major championship, at the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits. He finished in a tie for fifth place, two strokes short of the playoff. This was the best result to date Dufner had recorded in a major. He was eliminated in the third FedEx Cup playoff event and did not qualify for the The Tour Championship.

2011[link]

Early in 2011, Dufner had a chance to win his first PGA Tour title at the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale when he finished tied for the lead at 18-under-par after 72 holes, before eventually losing in a playoff to Mark Wilson. Wilson made a birdie on the second extra hole and the best Dufner could manage there was a par. He also had a good finish in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans where a final-round 66 boosted him to a tie for third place. Dufner earned entry into the 2011 U.S. Open after Anders Hansen withdrew; previously during a qualifying tournament in Georgia, Dufner had lost in a playoff to Russell Henley. He also played in the 2011 Open Championship as a result of Tiger Woods pulling out due to injury.^[5] He missed the cut in both the U.S. Open and the Open Championship.

2011 PGA Championship near miss[link]

At the 2011 PGA Championship in Atlanta, Dufner was in contention to win his first major and maiden PGA Tour title, when he entered the final round in the last group and tied for the lead with Brendan Steele at seven under par. Dufner completed the front nine in 33, two under par, while playing partner Steele dropped four shots early on and fell out of contention. Dufner held the lead for most of the final round and was bogey-free through 14 holes. After his nearest challenger, Keegan Bradley, made triple bogey on the 15th, Dufner had a five-stroke advantage with four holes to play. Dufner then hit his tee shot on 15 into the water hazard right of the green on the par three. He got up and down from the drop zone to make bogey, but followed this with bogeys at 16 and 17. Meanwhile, Bradley scored back-to-back birdies on 16 and 17 to take the clubhouse lead at eight under, wiping out Dufner's advantage. Dufner parred the 18th and the two American players went into a three-hole aggregate playoff.

On the first playoff hole, both players hit their approach shots to 16 within a few feet. Bradley made his birdie put, while Dufner missed his birdie, allowing Bradley to take a one-stroke advantage to the 17th. Both players found the green from the tee, and while Bradley two-putted for his par, Dufner knocked his first putt well past the hole, and three-putted the green to fall two strokes behind with one to play. At the last hole, Bradley's second shot cleared the water by a few yards; Dufner then followed with a shot on the same line and made his birdie putt. Bradley only needed to two-putt for the championship, which he did.^[6] This was Dufner's best major finish, winning $865,000 of the purse, with both of his career high finishes in majors coming at the PGA Championship. With his second place finish, he rose to 38th in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR).

2012[link]

Dufner continued his good form in 2012 by sharing the 36-hole lead at the Masters, but faded on the weekend to finish T24.^[7] Three weeks later at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Dufner won for the first time on the PGA Tour in his 164th start when he defeated Ernie Els on the second hole of a sudden death playoff. He entered the final round with a two stroke advantage and shot a 70 to finish at 19 under par, a tournament total record, which Els also equalled. At the first playoff hole, the 18th, Els had a chance to clinch victory with a six foot putt, but pushed it out to the right. Replaying the 18th again, Dufner found the green in two and when Els couldn't get up and down from 100 yards short of the green, Dufner sealed the win with a two putt. Dufner moved into the world's top 20 as a result of his first victory.^[8]

Three weeks later, Dufner chalked up his second victory with a win at the HP Byron Nelson Championship by one stroke over Dicky Pride, who was seeking his first win since 1994. Dufner began the final round with the 54-hole lead, but suffered setbacks when he bogeyed two and three to surrender the lead. He recovered with birdies at four, five and seven, but remained behind playing partner JJ Henry until the 17th when Henry made double bogey. Now tied for the lead with Pride, the clubhouse leader, after 71 holes, Dufner sank a 25 foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole for the outright victory. The win elevated Dufner to 14th in the OWGR and first in the FedEx Cup standings. Dufner became only the second multiple winner on the PGA Tour in 2012, alongside Hunter Mahan. In May 2012, Dufner had an opportunity to win his third PGA Tour title of the year at the Colonial, where he was leading after 36 and 54 holes respectively before being beaten by one stroke by former Masters champion Zach Johnson.^[9]. The second place finish, however, catapulted Dufner to 8th place in the Official World Golf Ranking, a career best ranking.

Professional wins (4)[link]

PGA Tour wins (2)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	Apr 29, 2012	Zurich Classic of New Orleans	67-65-67-70=269	–19	Playoff	Ernie Els
2	May 20, 2012	HP Byron Nelson Championship	67-66-69-67=269	–11	1 stroke	Dicky Pride

PGA Tour playoff record (1–2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2011	Waste Management Phoenix Open	Mark Wilson	Lost to birdie on second extra hole
2	2011	PGA Championship	Keegan Bradley	Lost three-hole aggregate playoff: Bradley 3-3-4=10 (–1), Dufner 4-4-3=11 (E)
3	2012	Zurich Classic of New Orleans	Ernie Els	Won with birdie on second extra hole

Nationwide Tour wins (2)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Jul 15, 2001	BUY.COM Wichita Open	67-67-64-68=266	–22	3 strokes	David Gossett, Jeff Gove Todd Rose
2	Jun 11, 2006	LaSalle Bank Open	69-71-69-70=279	–5	1 stroke	Cliff Kresge

Results in major championships[link]

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Summary[link]

• Tournaments played: 12
• Wins: 0
• Top 10s: 2
• Top 25s: 3
• Missed cuts: 5
• Most consecutive cuts made: 2

See also[link]

• 2003 Nationwide Tour graduates
• 2006 Nationwide Tour graduates

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jason Dufner at the PGA Tour official site
• Jason Dufner at the Official World Golf Ranking official site