Daniele Nino Bertasio (born 30 July 1988) is an Italian

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who plays on the

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and is currently attached to the Gardagolf Country Club.

Professional career

After turning professional in 2011, he joined the

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. His first win on that tour came in 2014 at the Open St. Francois Region Guadeloupe, followed a week later by another win at the Asiago Open; he went on to win the Order of Merit and qualify for the

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. In 2015 he comfortably retained his card on the Challenge tour, with his best performance at the Volopa Irish Challenge where he lost in a playoff to Tom Murray. At the end of the year, he qualified for the 2016 season on the European Tour via

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. In 2016 Bertasio qualified for the

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and finished tied for 30th. Bertasio ended 2017 with a strong run of form that included a run of six top-20 finishes in eight tournaments with a share of tenth place at The Italian Open and eighth at the

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. He further established himself on the European Tour in 2018 with another consistent year that included a share of fifth at the

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. In July 2019, Bertasio shot rounds of 63, 67, 67 and 68 at The Renaissance Club to finish in a share of fourth at the

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, securing a place at

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– his first major – the following week. He made the halfway cut in Northern Ireland, finishing in a share of 72nd.

Amateur wins

*2008 Campionato Internazionale d'Italia, Italian Match Play, Italian National Stroke Play *2010 Copa Sotogrande,

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(individual) Source:

Professional wins (4)

Alps Tour wins (2)

EPD Tour wins (1)

Other wins (1)

*2011 Italian Omnium Open

Playoff record

Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1)

Results in major championships

"T" = tied for place

Team appearances

(representing Italy):

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 ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Eisenhower Trophy The Eisenhower Trophy (World Men's Amateur Team Championships) is the biennial World Amateur Team Championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. Since the tournament was first played in 1958 Eisenhower Trophy, 1958, it is nam ...

(representing Italy):

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(representing the Continent of Europe): 2010 (winners)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bertasio, Nino Italian male golfers European Tour golfers Olympic golfers for Italy Golfers at the 2016 Summer Olympics 1988 births Living people 21st-century Italian sportsmen