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 language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

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

Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour, currently titled as the HotelPlanner Tour for sponsorship reasons and also sometimes referred to as the European Challenge Tour, is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European To ...

. 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 Mallorca Classic. 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 Official World Golf Rankings. Bourdy also has three victories on the Alps Tour, one of Europe's third-tier development tours, between 2003 and 2005, and won the South African PGA Championship 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

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. After his first European Tour win at the 2007 Mallorca Classic, Bourdy collected another victory at the Estoril Open de Portugal in 2008. In November 2009, Bourdy held off the challenge of

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to win the UBS Hong Kong Open 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 (representing France): 1999 * European Youths' Team Championship (representing France): 2002 *

(representing France):

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

Professional *

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(representing France):

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

* Seve Trophy (representing Continental Europe):

(winners)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bourdy, Gregory French male golfers European Tour golfers Olympic golfers for 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 sportsmen