European Amateur
Encyclopedia
The European Amateur Championship is an annual amateur golf
tournament. It is played at various locations throughout Europe
. It is organized by the European Golf Association and was first played in 1986. The winner receives an invitation to The Open Championship
.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament. It is played at various locations throughout Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. It is organized by the European Golf Association and was first played in 1986. The winner receives an invitation to The Open Championship
The Open Championship
The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...
.
Winners
| Year | Player | Country |
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| 2011 | Manuel Trappel | |
| 2010 | Lucas Bjerregaard | |
| 2009 | Victor Dubuisson Victor Dubuisson Victor Dubuisson is a French professional golfer.Dubuisson was born in Nice. He enjoyed a successful amateur career, during which he won several major amateur tournaments, including the 2009 European Amateur, and was the number one ranked player... |
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| 2008 | Stephan Gross | |
| 2007 | Benjamin Hebert Benjamin Hebert (golfer) Benjamin Hebert is a French professional golfer.-Early life:Hebert was born in Brive, France. His parents are Jean-Luc, a former pentathlete, and Françoise, a former swimmer, both of whom now work as teachers. He also has one sister, Audrey... |
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| 2006 | Rory McIlroy Rory McIlroy Rory McIlroy is a Northern Irish professional golfer from Holywood in County Down. He has represented Europe, Great Britain & Ireland, and Ireland as both an amateur and a professional. He had a successful amateur career, topping the World Amateur Golf Ranking for one week as a 17-year-old in 2007... |
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| 2005 | Marius Thorp Marius Thorp Marius Thorp is a Norwegian professional golfer.Thorp had a successful amateur career, winning the European Amateur in 2005 and claiming the silver medal for lowest amateur in the 2006 Open Championship. He turned professional in 2007 and had immediate success, claiming four wins on mini-tours in... |
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| 2004 | Matthew Richardson Matthew Richardson (golfer) Matthew Richardson is an English professional golfer who has played in both Europe and North America.Richardson was a successful amateur golfer, with the pinnacle of his amateur career being an appearance in the 2005 Walker Cup. He turned professional later that year, and qualified for the European... |
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| 2003 | Brian McElhinney | |
| 2002 | Raphaël Pellicioli | |
| 2001 | Stephen Browne | |
| 2000 | Carl Pettersson Carl Pettersson Carl Pettersson is a Swedish professional golfer.Pettersson was born in Gothenburg. His father was a Volvo executive who was transferred internationally, so Carl lived in England from ages ten to fourteen and spent his last two high school years at Grimsley High School in Greensboro, North... |
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| 1999 | Grégory Havret Gregory Havret Grégory Havret is a French professional golfer.Havret won the French Amateur Championship three years in a row from 1997 to 1999, and in 1999 he won the European Amateur. He also won a minor professional tournament as an amateur, the 1998 Omnium National.Havret turned professional in 1999 and won... |
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| 1998 | Paddy Gribben | |
| 1997 | Didier de Vooght | |
| 1996 | Daniel Olsson | |
| 1995 | Sergio García Sergio García Sergio García Fernández is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on both the United States PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has spent much of his career in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings... |
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| 1994 | Stephen Gallacher Stephen Gallacher Stephen James Gallacher is a Scottish professional golfer.Gallacher was born in Dechmont, West Lothian and is the nephew of former European Ryder Cup Captain Bernard Gallacher. He played in a victorious Walker Cup side in 1995 and turned professional later that year.Gallacher first played on the... |
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| 1993 | Morten Backhausen | |
| 1992 | Massimo Scarpa Massimo Scarpa Massimo Scarpa is an Italian professional golfer.Scarpa was born in Venice and turned professional at the end of 1992 having won the European Amateur. He played on the European Tour and the second tier Challenge Tour between 1993 and 2006. He won once on the European Tour and twice on the... |
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| 1991 | Jim Payne Jim Payne (golfer) Jim Payne is an English professional golfer.Payne was born in Louth, Lincolnshire. He had a promising career as a tournament golfer which petered out by his early thirties, partly due to injury problems which had required him to undergo a spinal fusion operation at the age of 24. As an amateur he... |
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| 1990 | Klas Eriksson Klas Eriksson Klas Eriksson is a Swedish professional golfer.Eriksson was born in Växjö and turned professional in 1991 having won the European Amateur and the French Amateur Stoke Play Championship the previous year. He won three times on the second tier Challenge Tour in 1993 on his way to the top of the... |
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| 1989 | No tournament | |
| 1988 | David Ecob | |
| 1987 | No tournament | |
| 1986 | Anders Haglund Anders Haglund Anders Haglund is a Swedish former professional golfer.Haglund was born in Borås, Sweden. As an amateur golfer, he won the inaugural European Amateur in 1986 at the Eindhoven Golf Club. He played college golf at the University of South Florida in the United States. Haglund won the Open de Bordeaux... |
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