Grégory Bourdy (born 25 April 1982) is a French

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who competes on the

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Career

Bourdy was born in

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectu ...

. He turned professional in 2003. His cousin Nicolas Beaufils is also a professional golfer, who has played on the

Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and, as with on the main European Tour and the European Senior Tour, some of the events are played outside Europe. History T ...

. Bourdy has played on the European Tour full-time since 2005, having previously competed on the second-tier Challenge Tour. Bourdy won his first European Tour event on 28 October 2007 at the

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. That win helped him to finish 39th on the European Tour's Order of Merit list, the first time he had broken the top 100. He has been the highest ranked French golfer on the

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. Bourdy also has three victories on the

Alps Tour The Alps Tour is a developmental professional golf tour for men which is sanctioned by the national golf associations of France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Morocco. Established in 2001, it is a third level tour, the highest level of men's gol ...

, one of Europe's third-tier development tours, between 2003 and 2005, and won the

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on the

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in 2006. Bourdy was also a member of the France team that finished in 2nd place at the 2002

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 ...

. After his first European Tour win at the 2007

, Bourdy collected another victory at the

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in 2008. In November 2009, Bourdy held off the challenge of

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to win the

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by two strokes. At the Lyoness Open in June 2015, Bourdy held a two-stroke advantage going into the final round, having led from day one. However, in the final round he shot a six-over-par 78 that included five bogeys and a double bogey to finish in a tie for sixth. In 2016, Bourdy finished T18 at both the U.S. Open and the

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– his best finishes at major championships to date – and shared 21st place at the

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in Brazil.

Amateur wins

*2002 Scottish Youths Amateur Open Championship

Professional wins (10)

European Tour wins (4)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

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European Tour playoff record (1–0)

Sunshine Tour wins (1)

Alps Tour wins (3)

French Tour wins (2)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.

Results in World Golf Championships

''Results not in chronological order before 2015.'' "T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

Amateur *

European Boys' Team Championship The European Boys' Team Championship (Jean-Louis Dupont Trophy) is a European amateur team golf championship for men up to 18 organized by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1980 and it has been played annually since. S ...

(representing France): 1999 *

European Youths' Team Championship The European Youths' Team Championship was a European amateur team golf championship for men under 22 organized by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1961. It was played every year until 1982, then every second year. It ...

(representing France): 2002 *

(representing France):

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Professional *

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(representing France):

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; ...

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrates ...

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...

Seve Trophy The Seve Trophy was a biennial golf tournament between teams of professional male golfers; one team representing Great Britain and Ireland, the other team representing Continental Europe. The tournament was played in years when there is no Ryder ...

(representing Continental Europe):

(winners)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bourdy, Gregory French male golfers European Tour golfers Olympic golfers of France Golfers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in golf Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Sportspeople from Bordeaux 1982 births Living people 21st-century French people