Grégory Havret (born 25 November 1976) is a French professional

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er.

Career

Havret won the French Amateur Championship three years in a row from 1997 to 1999, and in 1999 he won the

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. He also won a minor professional tournament as an amateur, the 1998 Omnium National. Havret turned professional in 1999 and won a place on the

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at the 2000

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. He finished 60th on the Order of Merit in 2001, his rookie season, recording a maiden tour victory at the Italian Open. Havret's biggest win to date came in the 2007 Barclays Scottish Open at

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, where he overcame major winner

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in a playoff. In August 2008, Havret recorded a second tournament victory in

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(third overall), leading the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles at the end of every round in recording a one shot win over Graeme Storm. Havret's best year-end ranking on the Order of Merit is 19th in 2007. In 2008 Havret reached the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking and established himself as the highest ranked French golfer. As a qualifier and ranked 391 in the world, Havret was the runner-up at the 2010 U.S. Open, finishing one stroke behind

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Amateur wins

*1997 (1) French Amateur Championship *1998 (1) French Amateur Championship *1999 (2) French Amateur Championship,

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Professional wins (5)

European Tour wins (3)

European Tour playoff record (1–2)

French Tour wins (1)

Other wins (1)

*1998 Omnium National (France, as an amateur)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 2 (twice) *Longest streak of top-10s – 1

Results in World Golf Championships

"T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing France ):

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

Eisenhower Trophy The Eisenhower Trophy (World Men's Amateur Team Championships) is the biennial World Amateur Team Championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. Since the tournament was first played in 1958, it is named after Dwight D. Eise ...

(representing France):

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

Professional *

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(representing Continental Europe): 2007 *

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(representing France): 2007,

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Havret, Gregory French male golfers European Tour golfers Mediterranean Games medalists in golf Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games Sportspeople from La Rochelle Sportspeople from Aix-en-Provence 1976 births Living people