Victor Perez (golfer)

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Victor Perez
Personal information
Born (1992-09-02) 2 September 1992 (age 29)
Séméac, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
Height1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Sporting nationality France
ResidenceDundee, Scotland[1][2]
Career
CollegeUniversity of New Mexico
Turned professional2015
Current tour(s)European Tour
Former tour(s)Challenge Tour
Professional wins4
Highest ranking29 (4 April 2021)[3]
(as of 26 December 2021)
Number of wins by tour
European Tour1
Challenge Tour2
Other1
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentT46: 2020
PGA ChampionshipT22: 2020
U.S. OpenCUT: 2020, 2021
The Open ChampionshipCUT: 2021

Victor Perez (born 2 September 1992) is a French professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He won the 2019 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Amateur career[]

Perez attended the University of New Mexico from 2011 to 2015.[4][2] He represented France in the 2014 Eisenhower Trophy, where he was the joint-second lowest individual scorer behind Jon Rahm.

Professional career[]

Perez finished second in the Alps Tour qualifying school in December 2015 to earn a place on the tour for 2016. He was runner-up in the Open Frassanelle and won the Alps de Las Castillas, finishing the season fifth in the Order of Merit to earn a place on the 2017 Challenge Tour.

In his first season on the Challenge Tour Perez finished 18th in the Order of Merit, just outside the top-15 that gained cards for the European Tour. He was runner-up in the Made in Denmark Challenge and won the Challenge de España.

In his second season on the Challenge Tour, Perez finished 3rd in the Order of Merit which obtained him a place on the 2019 European Tour. He ended the 2018 season by winning the Foshan Open after a playoff with Robert MacIntyre, and then finishing second behind Adri Arnaus in the Ras Al Khaimah Challenge Tour Grand Final. He also earned his first European Tour top 10 by finishing 6th in the Belgian Knockout in May.

Perez made a good start to the 2019 European Tour, finishing joint 3rd in the first event of the season, the Honma Hong Kong Open, played in November 2018. In September 2019, Perez earned his first European Tour victory by winning the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. He tied for 4th place in the 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions and the following week was joint runner-up in the Turkish Airlines Open after a six-man playoff. Perez finished the European Tour season 13th in the Order of Merit and ended 2019 at 45th in the Official World Golf Ranking to qualify for the 2020 Masters Tournament, his first major championship.

In January 2020, Perez was a runner-up in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. He finished runner-up again in October 2020, at the BMW PGA Championship.

Personal life[]

Perez was born in Séméac in southwestern France, and he studied psychology at the University of New Mexico.[2] In 2017 he moved from France to Dundee, Scotland.[2]

Amateur wins[]

  • 2010 Grand Prix du Medoc
  • 2012 Aggie Invitational, Grand Prix des Landes-Hossegor
  • 2013 Grand Prix de Chiberta

Professional wins (4)[]

European Tour wins (1)[]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 29 Sep 2019 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship −22 (64-68-64-70=266) 1 stroke England Matthew Southgate

European Tour playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2019 Turkish Airlines Open England Tyrrell Hatton, France Benjamin Hébert,
United States Kurt Kitayama, Austria Matthias Schwab,
South Africa Erik van Rooyen 		Hatton won with par on fourth extra hole
Kitayama eliminated by birdie on third hole
Hébert, Perez and van Rooyen eliminated by birdie on first hole

Challenge Tour wins (2)[]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 1 Oct 2017 Challenge de España −24 (67-71-61-65=264) 3 strokes Norway
2 21 Oct 2018 Foshan Open1 −19 (68-65-67-69=269) Playoff Scotland Robert MacIntyre

1Co-sanctioned by the China Tour

Challenge Tour playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2018 Foshan Open Scotland Robert MacIntyre Won with birdie on first extra hole

Alps Tour wins (1)[]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runners-up
1 23 Jul 2016 Alps de Las Castillas −15 (66-67-68=201) 2 strokes Spain , France

Results in major championships[]

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament 2020 2021
Masters Tournament T46 CUT
PGA Championship T22 CUT
U.S. Open CUT CUT
The Open Championship NT CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Results in The Players Championship[]

Tournament 2021
The Players Championship T9
  Top 10

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships[]

Tournament 2019 2020 2021
Championship T53 T52
Match Play NT1 4
Invitational T65 61
Champions T4 NT1 NT1

1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Top 10
  Did not play

NT = no tournament
"T" = tied

Team appearances[]

Amateur

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Nicolson, Eric (29 September 2019). "Dunhill LInks Championship: Victor Perez secures Dundee (kind of) victory". The Courier.
  2. ^ a b c d Oliver, Angus (8 April 2021). "How a golf-obsessed Scotland helped Frenchman flourish". The Times. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Week 14 2021 Ending 4 Apr 2021" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  4. ^ "The University of New Mexico Lobos 2014-15 Men's Golf Roster Victor Perez". golobos.com. Retrieved 25 November 2018.

External links[]

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