Joost Luiten
| Joost Luiten | |
|---|---|
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Willibrordus Adrianus Maria Luiten |
| Born | 7 January 1986 Bleiswijk, Netherlands |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (150 lb; 11 st) |
| Sporting nationality |  Netherlands |
| Residence | Bleiswijk, Netherlands |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 2006 |
| Current tour(s) | European Tour |
| Professional wins | 5 |
| Highest ranking | 28 (23 November 2014)[1] |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| European Tour | 2 |
| Asian Tour | 1 |
| Challenge Tour | 2 |
| Other | 1 |
| Best results in major championships | |
| Masters Tournament | DNP |
| PGA Championship | T21: 2012 |
| U.S. Open | DNP |
| The Open Championship | T45: 2012 |
Willibrordus Adrianus Maria "Joost" Luiten (born 7 January 1986) is a Dutch professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.
Professional career
Luiten was born in Bleiswijk. He is currently a member of the European Tour. After a failed bid for a tour card on the Qualifying School he started his professional career on the EPD Tour where he claimed the second place twice in just four starts. Because he was not in possession of a tour card Luiten was solely depending on invites to play on the Challenge Tour. He received one for the Tusker Kenya Open where he birdied the 72nd hole for a shared tenth place, this was exactly enough to earn himself a start in the next tournament where he finished third. On his way to show how to make perfect use of a single invite Luiten went on to win in France, his third start of the season. In his first six events of 2007, he won two of them. On his way to winning the Vodafone Challenge he shot a 61 (-11) in the final round, the lowest final round total by a tournament winner.
After finishing sixth on the 2007 Challenge Tour rankings he received a European Tour card for 2008 and claimed two top 10 spots before injury curtailed his season.
Luiten was a member of the 2006 Dutch team that won the Eisenhower Trophy after he played his last five holes in six under par.
Luiten finished second at the KLM Open, a European Tour event, in 2007 and has been the highest ranked Dutch golfer in the Official World Golf Rankings. In January 2008 he reached the top 100 in the rankings.
Luiten's 2009 season was hampered by wrist injury that took him out more than a year and he played the start of 2010 on a minor medical exemption. He regained his European Tour card for the rest of 2010 and finished the season 28th on the Order of Merit.
In November 2011, Luiten won his first tournament on the European Tour with a victory in the Iskandar Johor Open in Malaysia, which also put him in the highest world ranking position so far, at 66. He finished in the top 30 of the Order of Merit for the second consecutive year, ranked 24th.
Luiten won for the second time on the European Tour in June 2013 at the Lyoness Open in Austria. He took a three stroke advantage into the final round and shot a one-under-par 71 to finish two ahead of Thomas Bjørn. Luiten became only the second player from the Netherlands to record multiple European Tour victories, after Robert-Jan Derksen.
Amateur wins (4)
- 2004 Dutch Boys Championship, Dutch Youths Championship
- 2005 Spanish Amateur Open Championship, German Amateur Open Championship
Professional wins (5)
European Tour wins (2)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 Nov 2011 | Iskandar Johor Open1 | –15 (63-70-65=198) | 1 stroke |  Daniel Chopra
|
| 2 | 9 Jun 2013 | Lyoness Open | –17 (65-68-67-71=271) | 2 strokes |  Thomas Bjørn
|
1 Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour
Asian Tour wins (1)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 Nov 2011 | Iskandar Johor Open1 | –15 (63-70-65=198) | 1 stroke | Daniel Chopra
|
1 Co-sanctioned by the European Tour
Challenge Tour wins (2)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 May 2007 | A.G.F. Allianz Golf Open de Toulouse | –17 (70-71-66-64=271) | 1 stroke |  Nicolas Vanhootegem
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| 2 | 10 Jun 2007 | Vodafone Challenge | –18 (70-68-71-61=270) | 2 strokes | Magnus A. Carlsson
|
Alps Tour wins (1)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 Jul 2009 | Circolo Rapallo Golf Open | –8 (71-65-66=202) | Playoff |  Thomas Fournier,  Andrea Perrino
|
Results in major championships
| Tournament | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Masters | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| U.S. Open | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| The Open Championship | T63 | T45 | DNP |
| PGA Championship | DNP | T21 |
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
Yellow background for top-10.
Team appearances
Amateur
- Bonallack Trophy (representing Europe): 2006 (winners)
- Eisenhower Trophy (representing the Netherlands): 2006 (winners)
- Palmer Cup (representing Europe): 2006 (winners)
Professional
See also
External links
- Official website
- Joost Luiten at the European Tour official site
- Joost Luiten at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
- ^ "Week 47 2014 Ending 23 Nov 2014" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 5 October 2019.