Thomas Jean Roger Levet (born 5 September 1968) is a French professional golfer who is a member of the

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and former member of the

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Career

Levet was born in Paris, France. He turned professional in 1988 and won the French PGA Championship that year, but he had to wait for a decade for his first win on the

, which came at the 1998 Cannes Open. In 2002, he finished second at

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, being one of four players in a playoff. He had a good chance to win, but bogeyed the final hole of the four-hole playoff to fall into sudden death with

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, where he again bogeyed to lose to Els. After spending 2003 on the

, he returned to the

in 2004. He claimed the most prestigious title of his career at the Scottish Open, and was a member of the winning

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European

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Team. Levet ended the season 5th on the Order of Merit, and returned to the PGA Tour in 2005. Levet suffers from severe

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, which almost forced him out of the game, however he has made strides to overcome the condition, and has featured in the top 50 of the

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. In 2008 he won his fourth European Tour title, beating nineteen-year-old

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in a sudden death playoff in the MAPFRE Open de Andalucia. His fifth win on the European Tour came at the 2009

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where he held off a charging

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, who shot a final round 65, by two strokes finishing 18 under par. With this win Levet became the leading Frenchman in terms of European Tour wins. Levet won his sixth European Tour title in July 2011 when he triumphed in his native country, at the

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by one stroke from Englishman Mark Foster and Dane

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. He became the 7th French player to win the tournament after

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. While celebrating his victory, Levet jumped into a lake, breaking his shin, and causing him to withdraw from

Professional wins (15)

European Tour wins (6)

European Tour playoff record (2–2)

Other wins (6)

*1988 French PGA Championship *1990 National Omnium (France) *1991 French PGA Championship *1992 Championnat de France Pro *1997 Toulouse Open, New Caledonia French Masters

European Senior Tour wins (3)

European Senior Tour playoff record (1–0)

Playoff record

PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

Results in major championships

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

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (1999 Open Championship – 2002 PGA) *Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (twice)

Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut

Results in World Golf Championships

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

Amateur *

Jacques Léglise Trophy The Jacques Léglise Trophy is an annual amateur boys' team golf competition between Great Britain & Ireland and the Continent of Europe. It was first played in 1977, as a one-day match before the Boys Amateur Championship, but since 1996 it has b ...

(representing the Continent of Europe): 1985 *

European Amateur Team Championship The European Amateur Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for men organised by the European Golf Association which was introduced in 1959. The championship was played in odd-numbered years from 1959 to 2007 and has been ...

(representing France):

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

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. Eisen ...

(representing France):

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

Professional *

Alfred Dunhill Cup The Alfred Dunhill Cup was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000, sponsored by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. It was for three-man teams of professional golfers, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the "World Team Championshi ...

(representing France):

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

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 ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

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(representing France):

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

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):

(representing Europe):

(winners)

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Levet, Thomas French male golfers European Tour golfers PGA Tour golfers European Senior Tour golfers Ryder Cup competitors for Europe Golfers from Paris People from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 1968 births Living people

Career

Professional wins (15)

European Tour wins (6)

Other wins (6)

European Senior Tour wins (3)

Playoff record

Results in major championships

Summary

Results in The Players Championship

Results in World Golf Championships

Team appearances

See also

References

External links