Romain Langasque (born 18 May 1995) is a French

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who plays on the

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. He won

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in 2015 and in 2020 had his biggest professional success when he won the

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Amateur career

Langasque won

in 2015 at

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, beating

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4 and 2 in the final. His Amateur Championship win gave an entry to the

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where he made the cut and finished tied for 65th place. He also got an entry to the

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where he was one of two amateurs to make the cut and finished tied for 39th place.

Professional career

Langasque turned professional after the

, thus forfeiting his exemption into the 2016 U.S. Open. Langasque played on the

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in 2016, where he was runner-up in the Barclays Kenya Open, the

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and the

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. He finished ninth in the Road to Oman, the order of merit, to gain entry to the

for 2017. Langasque started the

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season by finishing tied for tenth place in the

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. This was his only top-10 finish of the season and he finished 151st in the Race to Dubai, losing his

place. In December 2017 he finished tied third at the

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, where he had been invited. He then missed the cut in 5 of the 6 other European Tour events he was able to play, the last of them being the

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in July 2018. Back on the

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, he had a difficult start, earning less than €6,000 until mid-July. From the

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he started playing more solidly, making eight cuts in a row, including a tied fifth place at the Kazakhstan Open in September and his first professional victory a week later at the Hopps Open de Provence. Despite a fourth-place finish in the

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, he finished 19th in the Road to Ras Al Khaimah rankings, missing out on a European Tour place. However, less than two weeks later he finished in fifth place in the European Tour

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to earn a place on the

for 2019. Langasque had a successful start to the

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season, finishing second in the South African Open in December 2018. The event was part of the Open Qualifying Series and his high finish gave him an entry to the

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, his first major as a professional. He had solo third-place finishes in the

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tournament and the Scottish Open and finished the 2019 season 24th in the Order of Merit. On 23 August 2020, Langasque won the

by two shots over

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. He shot a final round 65 to overturn a five-shot deficit for his first European Tour win and advanced to 100th on the Official World Golf Ranking, tying his career best ranking from July 2019. On 29 September

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, in the first round of the

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, Langasque tied the course record at the Old Course in St Andrews,

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, with score of 11-under-par 61.

Amateur wins

*2011 Tournoi Federal Jeunes *2013 Grand Prix de la Ligue Messieurs *2014 Grand Prix de Bordeaux, Trophee des Regions *2015 Southern Cross Invitational, Coupe Frayssineau Mouchy,

*2016 Spanish International Amateur Championship Source:

Professional wins (3)

European Tour wins (1)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1)

French Tour wins (1)

Results in major championships

''Results not in chronological order in 2020.'' CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
WD = withdrew
NT = no tournament due to

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Results in World Golf Championships

"T" = Tied

Team appearances

Amateur *

Jacques Léglise Trophy The Jacques Léglise Trophy is an annual amateur boys' team golf competition between Great Britain & Ireland and the Continent of Europe. It was first played in 1977, as a one-day match before the Boys Amateur Championship, but since 1996 it has ...

(representing Continental Europe) : 2012 (winners), 2013 *

European Boys' Team Championship The European Boys' Team Championship (Jean-Louis Dupont Trophy) is a European amateur team golf championship for men up to 18 organized by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1980 and it has been played annually since. S ...

(representing France) : 2011, 2012, 2013 (winners) *

European Amateur Team Championship The European Amateur Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for men organised by the European Golf Association which was introduced in 1959. The championship was played in odd-numbered years from 1959 to 2007 and has been ...

(representing France) :

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Professional *

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(representing France):

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* Team Cup (representing Continental Europe): 2025

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Langasque, Romain French male golfers European Tour golfers Olympic golfers for France Golfers at the 2020 Summer Olympics 1995 births Living people 21st-century French sportsmen