Curtis Luck | |
Fullname: | Curtis John Luck |
Birth Date: | 9 August 1996 |
Birth Place: | Perth, Western Australia |
Yearpro: | 2017 |
Tour: | Korn Ferry Tour PGA Tour of Australasia |
Extour: | PGA Tour |
Prowins: | 2 |
Auswins: | 1 |
Nwidewins: | 1 |
Masters: | T46: 2017 |
Usopen: | CUT: 2020 |
Open: | DNP |
Pga: | DNP |
Curtis John Luck (born 9 August 1996)[1] [2] is an Australian professional golfer from Cottesloe, Western Australia. In March 2017 he became the number one ranked amateur golfer in the world, heading the World Amateur Golf Ranking. He held that ranking before turning professional in April.
Luck was runner-up at the 2014 Australian Amateur.[3] He also won the 2016 Western Australian Open on the PGA Tour of Australasia.[4]
Luck won the 2016 U.S. Amateur. He had previously planned to turn professional in October 2016, but decided to wait in order to retain his invitations in the 2017 Masters, U.S. Open and Open Championship.[5] [6] He moved from seventh in the World Amateur Golf Ranking[7] to third with the win.[8]
Luck was awarded the Emerging Athlete of the Year at the 2016 Australian Institute of Sport Performance Awards.[9]
Luck later decided to turn professional at the 2017 Valero Texas Open, meaning he forfeited his U.S. Open and Open Championship exemptions.
In August 2020, Luck won the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship in Ohio on the Korn Ferry Tour.
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Legend | |
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Championship Series (1) | |
Other Korn Ferry Tour (0) |
Results not in chronological order in 2020.
Tournament | 2017 | 2018 | |
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Masters Tournament | T46 | ||
U.S. Open | |||
The Open Championship | |||
PGA Championship |
Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | |
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Masters Tournament | |||
PGA Championship | |||
U.S. Open | CUT | ||
The Open Championship | NT |
Amateur