Curtis Luck | |
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Personal information | |
Born |
Perth, Australia |
9 August 1996
Nationality | Australia |
Career | |
Turned professional | 2017 |
Professional wins | 1 |
Number of wins by tour | |
PGA Tour of Australasia | 1 |
Best results in major championships |
|
Masters Tournament | T46: 2017 |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP |
Curtis Luck (born 9 August 1996) is an Australian professional golfer from Cottesloe, Western Australia. In March 2017 he became the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world, heading the World Amateur Golf Ranking. He held that ranking before turning professional in April.
Luck was runner-up at the 2014 Australian Amateur. He also won the 2016 Western Australian Open on the PGA Tour of Australasia.
Luck won the 2016 U.S. Amateur. He had previously planned to turn professional in October 2016, but decided to wait in order to retain his invitations in the 2017 Masters, U.S. Open and Open Championship. He moved from seventh in the World Amateur Golf Ranking to third with the win.
Luck was awarded the Emerging Athlete of the Year at the 2016 Australian Institute of Sport Performance Awards.
Luck later decided to turn professional at the 2017 Valero Texas Open, meaning he forfeited his U.S. Open and Open Championship exemptions.
Source:
1 As an amateur
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Amateur