José-Filipe Lima (born Philippe Lima; November 26, 1981) is a French-Portuguese

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. He won the 2004

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to gain a place on the European Tour. His best seasons were from 2005 to 2007 when he finished in the top-100 on the European Tour Order of Merit. Successful Challenge Tour seasons in 2009, 2013 and 2016 have promoted him back to the European Tour but, on each occasion he has failed to retain his place on the tour. He was runner-up in the 2007 BMW International Open.

Early life

Lima has Portuguese parents but was born in Versailles, France and grew up mainly in France. His father worked at Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche, which was the host course of the

Trophée Lancôme The Trophée Lancôme was a professional golf tournament which was staged in Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, France from 1970 to 2003. Gaëtan Mourgue D'Algue, a French golf enthusiast from Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, hoped to popularize the then little-know ...

until that tournament ceased in 2003, and was his son's first coach. Lima was the top ranked French amateur at the end of 2001 and turned professional the following year. His parents come from the Póvoa de Varzim parish of

Aguçadoura Aguçadoura is a Portuguese ''freguesia'' ("civil parish") and former civil parish located in Póvoa de Varzim. In the census of 2001, it had a population of 4,530 inhabitants and a total area of 3.47 km2. A 2013 law amalgamated it into the new ...

. Up until the end of 2004 Lima represented France (as Philippe Lima) but he then adopted his parents' nationality, began to use the Portuguese form of his name professionally, and represented Portugal in that year's WGC-World Cup.

Professional career

In 2003 Lima was the fourth ranked player on the third-level

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, which qualified him to move up to the main developmental tour in Europe, the Challenge Tour, for the 2004 season. In back to back weeks in June 2004 he won the Challenge Tour's Segura Viudas Challenge de España and the Challenge Tour/ European Tour co-sanctioned

, which won him promotion to the European Tour. After his win in the

, Lima played on the European Tour until the end of the 2008 season, his best finish being joint runner-up in the 2007 BMW International Open. After a disappointing 2008 he lost his tour card and in 2009 played mostly Challenge Tour events. He won the

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and was runner-up in the

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and the

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to finish second in the Order of Merit and a return to the European Tour. 2010 was another poor season with no top-10 finishes. Lima returned to the Challenge Tour where he played in 2011, 2012 and 2013. He did not win any tournaments in 2013 but with three runner-up finishes, in the

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, the

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and the Dubai Festival City Challenge Tour Grand Final, as well as two third-places and a fourth-place, he again finished second in the Order of Merit. His 2014 European Tour season was no more successful than 2010 and he again returned to the Challenge Tour. After an unsuccessful 2015 on the Challenge Tour, Lima won the 2016 Najeti Open and was runner-up in the

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to finish 12th in the Order or Merit and gain promotion to the European Tour for the fourth time. However he again failed to find any success on the main tour in 2017 and returned again to the Challenge Tour for 2018. He was runner-up in the 2018

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and finished the season 26th in the Order of Merit. After a poor start to 2019, Lima was joint runner-up in the

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behind

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in July and won the

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two weeks later.

Amateur wins

*2001 Coupe Murat (French Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship)

Professional wins (8)

European Tour wins (1)

¹Dual-ranking event with the Challenge Tour

Challenge Tour wins (5)

''*Note: The 2009 ECCO Tour Championship was shortened to 54 holes due to weather.''
¹Dual-ranking event with the European Tour
²Co-sanctioned by the

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Challenge Tour playoff record (1–0)

Alps Tour wins (2)

Other wins (1)

*2001

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(as an amateur)

Results in major championships

''Note: Lima never played in the

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or the PGA Championship.''
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing France): 1999 * European Amateur Team Championship (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 ...

* European Youths' Team Championship (representing France): 2002 * St Andrews Trophy (representing the Continent of Europe): 2002 Professional * World Cup (representing Portugal):

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 ...

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 fact ...

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

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(representing Portugal):

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lima, Jose-Filipe French male golfers Portuguese male golfers European Tour golfers Olympic golfers for Portugal Golfers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games medalists in golf Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Sportspeople from Versailles, Yvelines Sportspeople from Saint-Germain-en-Laye French sportspeople of Portuguese descent 1981 births Living people