Martin Wiegele (born 11 July 1978) is an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n professional

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

er. Wiegele was born in

Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popu ...

. He turned professional in 2003 when he joined the second tier Challenge Tour. He enjoyed some success during his first season finishing fourth on the end of season rankings to graduate to the top level European Tour for 2004. He almost won his first European Tour event he ever played, losing a playoff against Marcus Fraser in the 2003 BMW Russian Open. He could not keep his European Tour card and had to go back to the Challenge Tour. He struggled for form during the next few seasons due to massive swing changes, before picking up his first big victory at the 2007 Lexus Open. He went on to be medalist at the

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at the end of the season to regain his place at the top level. Having finished 142nd on the Order of Merit in 2008, Wiegele returned to the Challenge Tour in 2009. He picked up his second tournament victory on the Challenge Tour in 2010 at the

Kärnten Golf Open The Kärnten Golf Open was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour, played in Austria. It was held for the first time in 2009. It was contested over the Pete Dye designed course at the Golf Club Klagenfurt-Seltenheim in Klagenfurt from 2009 to 20 ...

, before winning his first European Tour title at the Saint-Omer Open two weeks later which gave him a one-year exemption on the main tour. He gained his Tour card for the 2012 season by finishing 83rd in the 2011 Race to Dubai, a season in which he finished tied for third in the Barclays Scottish Open. He missed most of the 2012 season through a hip injury and poor form since has kept him outside the world top-thousand most of the time from 2013 to early 2017. In June 2017 he was a surprise winner of the KPMG Trophy, his best performance since 2011.

Amateur wins

*1997 Austrian Amateur Closed Championship *2000 Austrian Amateur Closed Championship *2001 Austrian Amateur Closed Championship *2002 Slovak Amateur Open Championships, Austrian Amateur Closed Championship

Professional wins (5)

European Tour wins (1)

¹Dual-ranking event with the Challenge Tour European Tour playoff record (0–1)

Challenge Tour wins (4)

¹Dual-ranking event with the European Tour Challenge Tour playoff record (1–1)

Alps Tour wins (1)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Team appearances

Amateur * European Boys' Team Championship (representing Austria): 1995, 1996 * European Amateur Team Championship (representing Austria):

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

* European Youths' Team Championship (representing Austria): 1998 * Eisenhower Trophy (representing Austria):

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

* Bonallack Trophy (representing Europe): 2002 * St Andrews Trophy (representing the Continent of Europe): 2002 Professional *

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(representing Austria):

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

, 2016 * Ponte Veccio Challenge: 2011

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wiegele, Martin Austrian male golfers European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Graz 1978 births Living people