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Jean Hugo won the Champions UK plc European Senior Masters at La Manga Club in November 2026. He started the final day three shots back, closed with a bogey-free 65 and won by one on 19-under-par. It was his first time playing the course, and the win gave him his third Staysure Legends Tour title in four starts.
A week earlier, he won the inaugural Portugal Legends Championship at Pinheirinho with
a bogey-free, course-record 62, finishing six shots clear on 20-under-par.
His winning run began at the Reignwood Legends Championship in Beijing, where he won by three shots on 13-under-par in wind-battered conditions. That breakthrough came in his fifth Tour appearance, after his debut at the 2026 Barbados Legends, and secured his playing rights until the end of 2027.
Hugo came through the Challenge Tour in 2000, winning the Volvo Finnish Open to earn his European Tour card, and finished a best of 34th on the Order of Merit. Away from Europe, he has won more than 20 professional titles, in every decade since 1999.
He turned pro just before the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie, having defended his South African Amateur title. Hugo comes from a sporting family: his father Victor played rugby, his mother Esme competed in athletics and netball, and his sister Michelle sprinted for South Africa.
