Marcel Schneider (golfer)

Marcel Schneider
Marcel Schneider
Personal information
Born	6 February 1990 (age 31); Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
Nationality	Germany
Career
Turned professional	2012
Current tour(s)	European Tour; Challenge Tour
Professional wins	4
Number of wins by tour
Challenge Tour	2
Other	2
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT: 2021
Achievements and awards
Pro Golf Tour; Order of Merit winner
Pro Golf Tour; Order of Merit winner	2014

Marcel Schneider (born 6 February 1990) is a German professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and the Challenge Tour. He has won twice on the Challenge Tour, the 2018 Swiss Challenge and the 2021 Kaskáda Golf Challenge.

Amateur career[]

Schneider had a successful year in 2012. At the start of the year, he won the Australian Amateur beating at the 37th hole in the final. During the year he played in the Bonallack Trophy and the St Andrews Trophy and he was part of the German team that took a joint bronze medal in the Eisenhower Trophy in Turkey.^[1] He turned professional at the end of 2012.

Professional career[]

Schneider played on the Pro Golf Tour in 2013 and 2014. 2014 was a successful year with two victories and he led the Order of Merit.

From 2015 to 2020 Schneider mostly played on the Challenge Tour. In 2015 he was joint runner-up in the Gant Open in Finland. In 2018 he won the Swiss Challenge and was runner-up in the Rolex Trophy. In 2020 he was runner-up in the Austrian Open and lost in a playoff for the Italian Challenge Open Eneos Motor Oil. He finished second in the 2020 Challenge Tour Order of Merit to gain limited playing opportunities on the 2021 European Tour.^[2] In July 2021, playing in his first Challenge Tour event of the season, he had his second success on the tour, winning the Kaskáda Golf Challenge by one stroke. The win also gave him an entry into the 2021 Open Championship, his first major championship.^[3]

Amateur wins[]

2009 Austrian Amateur
2012 Australian Amateur

Professional wins (4)[]

Challenge Tour wins (2)[]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	3 Jun 2018	Swiss Challenge	−22 (63-64-68-67=262)	6 strokes	Kristian Krogh Johannessen
2	4 Jul 2021	Kaskáda Golf Challenge	−16 (65-65-71-67=284)	1 stroke	Josh Geary, Dimitrios Papadatos,