Brandon Robinson-Thompson | |
Birth Date: | 25 August 1992 |
Birth Place: | Totland Bay, Isle of Wight, England |
College: | Morningside College University of South Carolina Aiken |
Yearpro: | 2017 |
Tour: | Challenge Tour |
Extour: | PGA Tour Latinoamérica MENA Tour PGA EuroPro Tour Clutch Pro Tour |
Prowins: | 7 |
Chalwins: | 2 |
Otherwins: | 5 |
Masters: | DNP |
Usopen: | CUT: 2024 |
Open: | 59th: 2023 |
Pga: | DNP |
Award1: | Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year |
Year1: | 2015 |
Brandon Robinson-Thompson (born 25 August 1992) is an English professional golfer. In 2023, he won the Northern Ireland Open and the Irish Challenge.
Robinson-Thompson was born in Totland Bay, Isle of Wight in 1992, and educated at Carisbrooke College. He attended Morningside College for two years, where he won six tournaments and was individual Great Plains Athletic Conference champion. He transferred to the University of South Carolina Aiken where he was first-team All-American and Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year in 2015. He finished top-10 in the NCAA Division II Championship individually.[1]
Robinson-Thompson turned professional in 2017 and joined the 2018 PGA Tour Latinoamérica. In 2021, he joined the PGA EuroPro Tour where he won the 2022 Worcestershire Masters and finished 7th in the rankings, narrowly missing out on promotion to the Challenge Tour.
In 2023, he won an event in Egypt on the MENA Tour and the Northern Ireland Open, which earned him a start at the ISPS Handa World Invitational.[2] He made it through Final Qualifying at Royal Porthcawl in Wales to join the 2023 Open Championship at Hoylake, where he finished solo 59th.[3] [4] The week after he was invited to the Irish Challenge which he won, securing membership of the Challenge Tour, where he finished the season ranked 22nd, missing out on graduation to the European Tour by one place, earning category 19 exemption.[5]
Robinson-Thompson earned a spot at the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst Resort in the Walton Heath qualifier, and ultimately missed the cut by a single stroke.[6]
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No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | |
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1 | 30 Jul 2023 | Irish Challenge | −12 (69-64-72-67=272) | 2 strokes | Will Enefer, Jordan Gumberg | |
2 | 11 Aug 2024 | Farmfoods Scottish Challenge | −22 (67-67-62-66=262) | 8 strokes | Hamish Brown |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | |
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1 | 1 Jun 2023 | Galvin Green Championship | −4 (68-68=136) | 1 stroke | Curtis Knipes | |
2 | 22 Jun 2023 | Northern Ireland Open | −9 (63-69-69=201) | 3 strokes | Daniel Smith | |
3 | 30 Jun 2023 | Machynys | −12 (68-66-70=204) | 2 strokes | Jake Ayres, Sam Broadhurst, Jake Burnage |
Tournament | 2023 | 2024 | |
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Masters Tournament | |||
PGA Championship | |||
U.S. Open | CUT | ||
The Open Championship | 59 |