Martin Couvra (born 17 January 2003) is a French

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and

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player. He won the 2025

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, and previously had captured the 2023

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to become the 7th amateur to win on the

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Amateur career

Couvra was trained at the École de Golf de Frégate in

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. He won the 2022 French Amateur for the Coupe Murat, five strokes ahead of the runners-up. In 2023, Couvra won three trophies in the space of two weeks in South Africa. He became the first ever player to win, in the same season, the South African Stroke Play Championship and the South African Amateur Championship, including the Proudfoot Trophy as medalist of the 36-hole stroke play qualifying after a playoff with Aldrich Potgieter.

Professional career

Couvra turned professional and joined the

after he won the

as an amateur in September 2023. He became the seventh amateur in history to win on the Challenge Tour after prevailing in a playoff with Andrea Pavan and Dermot McElroy. Couvra finished 17th in the rankings and graduated to the

for 2025. He recorded several top-5 finishes early on in his rookie season before winning the

Amateur wins

*2019 Tournoi Federal Jeunes U16 Boys *2020 Grand Prix du Medoc, Grand Prix Jean Louis Jurion *2022 Internationaux de France - Coupe Murat, Open d'Arcachon *2023 South African Stroke Play Championship, South African Amateur Championship Source:

Professional wins (3)

European Tour wins (1)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Challenge Tour playoff record (1–0)

French Tour wins (1)

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing France): 2021 *

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(representing France):

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

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(representing the Continent of Europe): 2022 * European Nations Cup – Copa Sotogrande (representing France): 2023 Source:

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Couvra, Martin French male golfers European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Cannes 2003 births Living people 21st-century French sportsmen