Matt Wallace (golfer)

Matt Wallace
Personal information
Born	(1990-04-12) 12 April 1990 (age 31) Hillingdon, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Sporting nationality	England
Residence	Sunningdale, England
Career
College	Jacksonville State University
Turned professional	2012
Current tour(s)	European Tour PGA Tour
Former tour(s)	Challenge Tour Alps Tour
Professional wins	10
Highest ranking	23 (14 July 2019)[1] (as of 26 December 2021)
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	4
Asian Tour	1
Challenge Tour	1
Other	6
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	T34: 2021
PGA Championship	T3: 2019
U.S. Open	T12: 2019
The Open Championship	T40: 2021
Achievements and awards
Alps Tour Order of Merit 2016

Matthew Wallace (born 12 April 1990) is an English professional golfer currently playing on the European Tour and the PGA Tour.

Collegiate career[]

Wallace played for Jacksonville State University, in Northeast Alabama, as a freshman in the 2010–11 season before turning professional. His year in Jacksonville was a successful one that saw him win twice, including the 2011 OVC Championship. He was the OVC Freshman of the Year and held the record for lowest round in school history with a 10-under 62 in the F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate.^[2]

Professional career[]

In 2016 Wallace won six tournaments on the Alps Tour and won the Order of Merit. This enabled him to join the Challenge Tour in 2017. He started 2017 by finishing tied for third place in the Barclays Kenya Open and in May he won the Open de Portugal, a dual-ranking event with the main European Tour.^[3] The win gave him promotion to the European Tour.

Wallace won his second European Tour event in March 2018, Hero Indian Open, beating Andrew Johnston in a playoff, making a birdie at the first extra hole. The win lifted him into the world top 100 for the first time. In June Wallace won again at the BMW International Open. He started the final round two strokes behind the leaders, but carded a bogey-free round of 65 to take the title by one stroke. He followed that up with a victory at Made in Denmark in September 2018, collecting birdies at five of the last six holes before coming out on top in a four-man playoff. He finished in a share of fifth at the Nedbank Golf Challenge before tying for second at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, Dubai to move into the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time.

In May 2019, Wallace finished joint 3rd at the PGA Championship and, in the same year, came 12th at the US Open at Pebble Beach and sixth at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, as well as second at the Dubai Desert Classic and British Masters and third at the BMW International Open and KLM Open.

In his first full season on the PGA Tour in 2019–20, Wallace finished in a share of fourth at Memorial Tournament - the strongest field in PGA Tour history - and T12 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

In April 2021, Wallace recorded his joint-best finish on the PGA Tour with a solo-third finish at the Valero Texas Open. He was tied for the lead with Jordan Spieth after 54 holes.^[4] He went on to finish 111th in the FedEx Cup standings.

Wallace started his 2021–22 PGA Tour season with a share of 14th place at the Shriners Children's Open and fourth place at the Zozo Championship in October 2021.

Professional wins (10)[]

European Tour wins (4)[]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	14 May 2017	Open de Portugal1	−21 (63-66-73-69=271)	3 strokes	Julian Suri
2	11 Mar 2018	Hero Indian Open2	−11 (69-70-70-68=277)	Playoff	Andrew Johnston
3	24 Jun 2018	BMW International Open	−10 (73-69-71-65=278)	1 stroke	Martin Kaymer, Mikko Korhonen, Thorbjørn Olesen
4	2 Sep 2018	Made in Denmark	−19 (68-68-66-67=269)	Playoff	Steven Brown, , Lee Westwood

¹Dual-ranking event with the Challenge Tour
²Co-sanctioned with the Asian Tour

European Tour playoff record (2–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	2018	Hero Indian Open	Andrew Johnston	Won with birdie on first extra hole
2	2018	Made in Denmark	Steven Brown, , Lee Westwood	Won with birdie on second extra hole Thomson and Westwood eliminated by birdie on first hole

Challenge Tour wins (1)[]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	14 May 2017	Open de Portugal1	−21 (63-66-73-69=271)	3 strokes	Julian Suri

¹Dual-ranking event with the European Tour

Alps Tour wins (6)[]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	23 Feb 2016	Dreamland Pyramids Open	−8 (67-72-69=208)	1 stroke	,
2	1 May 2016	Tunisian Golf Open	−12 (67-68-71-70=276)	2 strokes
3	8 May 2016	Gösser Open	−20 (66-64-66=196)	8 strokes
4	21 May 2016	Vigevano Open	−17 (65-62-66=193)	3 strokes	,
5	2 Jul 2016	Open Frassanelle	−17 (66-65-65=196)	4 strokes	Victor Perez
6	22 Oct 2016	Alps Tour Grand Final	−17 (63-70-66-68=267)	1 stroke

Results in major championships[]

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament	2017	2018
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open	CUT	CUT
The Open Championship		CUT
PGA Championship		T19

Tournament	2019	2020	2021
Masters Tournament	CUT	T46	T34
PGA Championship	T3	T77	T55
U.S. Open	T12	T43	CUT
The Open Championship	T51	NT	T40

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Results in The Players Championship[]

Tournament	2019
The Players Championship	T30

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships[]

Tournament	2018	2019	2020	2021
Championship		T33	T58
Match Play		T40	NT1	T28
Invitational		T27	T59
Champions	T50	T60	NT1	NT1

¹Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied

References[]

External links[]

• Matt Wallace at the European Tour official site
• Matt Wallace at the Official World Golf Ranking official site