Thomas Jean Roger Levet (born 5 September 1968) is a French professional golfer who is a member of the

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and former member of the

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Career

Levet was born in Paris, France. He turned professional in 1988 and won the French PGA Championship that year. He first qualified for the

for the 1991 season and spent the next six years on the tour, splitting time with the

in 1994. He made only three cuts on the European Tour in 1996 and fell to the second-tier

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. He regained his European Tour card in April 1998 by winning the Cannes Open, to which he had gained access through the French Golf Federation. In 2002, he finished second at

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, being one of four players in a playoff. He had a good chance to win, but bogeyed the final hole of the four-hole playoff to fall into sudden death with

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, where he again bogeyed to lose to Els. After spending 2003 on the

, he returned to the

in 2004. He claimed the most prestigious title of his career at the Scottish Open, and was a member of the winning

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European

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Team. Levet ended the season 5th on the Order of Merit, and returned to the PGA Tour in 2005. Levet suffers from severe

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, which almost forced him out of the game, however he has made strides to overcome the condition, and has featured in the top 50 of the

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. In 2008 he won his fourth European Tour title, beating nineteen-year-old Oliver Fisher in a sudden death playoff in the MAPFRE Open de Andalucia. His fifth win on the European Tour came at the 2009

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where he held off a charging

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, who shot a final round 65, by two strokes finishing 18 under par. With this win Levet became the leading Frenchman in terms of European Tour wins. Levet won his sixth European Tour title in July 2011 when he triumphed in his native country, at the Alstom Open de France by one stroke from Englishman Mark Foster and Dane

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. He became the 7th French player to win the tournament after Jean-François Remésy. While celebrating his victory, Levet jumped into a lake, breaking his shin, and causing him to withdraw from

Professional wins (15)

European Tour wins (6)

European Tour playoff record (2–2)

Other wins (6)

*1988 French PGA Championship *1990 National Omnium (France) *1991 French PGA Championship *1992 Championnat de France Pro *1997 Toulouse Open, New Caledonia French Masters

European Senior Tour wins (3)

European Senior Tour playoff record (1–0)

Playoff record

PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

Results in major championships

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

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (1999 Open Championship – 2002 PGA) *Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (twice)

Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut

Results in World Golf Championships

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

Amateur * European Boys' Team Championship (representing France): 1985 *

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(representing the Continent of Europe): 1985 * European Amateur Team Championship (representing France):

1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

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(representing France): 1988 Professional *

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(representing France):

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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(representing France):

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

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 ...

* Seve Trophy (representing Continental Europe):

(representing Europe):

(winners)

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Levet, Thomas French male golfers European Tour golfers PGA Tour golfers European Senior Tour golfers Ryder Cup competitors for Europe Golfers from Paris Golfers from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 1968 births Living people 20th-century French sportsmen