Bernd Wiesberger

Bernd Wiesberger
Personnel
Nation:	Austria
Career data
Professional since:	2006
Current tour:	European Tour
Tournament wins:	11
Awards:	Golfer (Pro) of the Year (Austria) (2011–2015) Sportsman of the Year (Burgenland) (2008, 2010–2016)

Bernd Wiesberger (born October 8, 1985 in Vienna ) is an Austrian professional golfer .

Career

After a successful amateur career with numerous national titles, Wiesberger became a professional golfer in 2006 . About the Tour School he qualified for the European Tour for the 2009 season, but could not hold their own, so he returned to the Challenge Tour returned and was able in 2010 to land his first two tournament victories. With a fifth place in the 2010 annual ranking, Wiesberger was again eligible to play on the European Tour from 2011. With four top 10 placings, including two second places, he ended that season in 64th place on the money list.

The first victory on the European Tour came in April 2012 at the Ballantine's Championship in South Korea. Wiesberger won this tournament , which is also part of the Asian Tour and the Korean Tour, by five strokes, after setting the course record in both the second and third round. hired. Thanks to this success, he was able to advance into the top 100 of the golf world rankings. After winning the Lyoness Open , he improved to 78th place at the end of July 2012 and to 64th place by the end of the season. He finished the 2012 Race to Dubai in 22nd place.

In May 2013 he won the CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters on the Asian Tour in front of the reigning Open Champion Ernie Els . After a shared third place at the Portugal Masters and other good placements, Wiesberger achieved his best placement in the golf world rankings to date with rank 52 in November 2013. In 2013, he finished in 28th place in the Race to Dubai.

In July 2015 he won the Open de France and then reached number 23 in the world rankings. In the Race to Dubai he finished ninth at the end of the 2015 season, which he was able to repeat in the following season.

In spring 2018, Wiesberger had to undergo an operation due to a wrist injury. As a result, he paused for half a year and only got back into the tournament scene at the end of 2018.

The 2019 comeback tour season was his most successful golf year to date. He won the tournament in Denmark and won a tournament in the Rolex series for the first time with the Scottish Open in Aberdeen. In October 2019, Wiesberger succeeded in winning the Italian Open, another tournament in the Rolex series. As a result, he took the lead in the Race to Dubai 2019, the European annual ranking list. He also climbed to 22nd place in the world rankings - his best ranking so far.

Others

In the election to the Athletes of the Year in Austria in 2013 occupied Wiesenberger fifth.

Tournament victories

amateur

• 1997 Austrian Boys Championship
• 2004 Austrian Amateur Match Play Championship, Austrian Amateur Stroke Play Championship
• 2005 Austrian Amateur Stroke Play Championship, Austrian Youths Championship
• 2006 Austrian Amateur Stroke Play Championship, Austrian Youths Championship

professional

No.	date	competition	Win score	head Start	Runner-up	trip
1.	July 11, 2010	Allianz Golf Open de Lyon	−17 (67-67-71-62 = 267)	2 strokes	Joel Sjöholm	Challenge Tour
2.	October 10, 2010	Allianz Golf Open du Grand Toulouse	−9 (70-70-67-68 = 275)	4 strokes	Charles-Édouard Russo	Challenge Tour
3.	April 29, 2012	Ballantine's Championship	−18 (72-65-65-68 = 270)	5 strokes	Richie Ramsay	European Tour Asian Tour Korean Tour
4th	June 29, 2012	Lyoness Open powered by Greenfinity	−19 (71-66-67-65 = 269)	3 strokes	Thomas Levet Shane Lowry	European Tour
5.	August 21, 2012	Zurich Open	−10 (67-67 = 134)	2 strokes	Paul Broadhurst	ProAm show event
6th	May 5, 2013	CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters	−15 (67-72-67-67 = 273)	1 hit	Ernie Els	Asian tour
7th	5th July 2015	Alstom Open de France	−13 (68-72-66-65 = 271)	3 strokes	James Morrison	European Tour
8th.	April 23, 2017	Shenzhen International	−16 (67-65-69-71 = 272)	Playoff	Tommy Fleetwood	European Tour
9.	May 26, 2019	Made in Denmark	−14 (68-69-67-66 = 270)	1 hit	Robert MacIntyre	European Tour
10.	14th July 2019	Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open	−22 (67-61-65-69 = 262)	Playoff	Benjamin Hebert	European Tour
11.	October 13, 2019	Italian Open	−16 (66-70-67-65 = 268)	1 hit	Matthew Fitzpatrick	European Tour

Participation in team competitions

amateur

• Eisenhower Trophy: 2004, 2006
• Jacques Léglise Trophy: 2003

professional

• Royal Trophy (for Europe): 2013 (winner)
• EurAsia Cup (for Europe): 2016 (winner), 2018 (winner)
• World Cup (for Austria): 2013, 2016

Results at major championships

Tournament	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Masters	DNP	DNP	T22	T34	T43	T24	DNP
PGA Championship	CUT	T15	CUT	CUT	CUT	DNP	DNP
US Open	DNP	CUT	CUT	CUT	T16	DNP	76
Open Championship	T64	CUT	T68	CUT	T74	DNP	T32

WD = abandoned
DNP = did not take part
CUT = cut failed
"T" split placement
Green background for victory
Yellow background for top 10

Results in World Golf Championships

Results before 2015 not in chronological order

competition	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Mexico Championship				T31	T14	T45	T30
Match play			R64	T34	T51	T17	T29
Bridgestone Invitational	T55			T25		T41
HSBC champions	T28			T17	T35	T9

Top 10

not participated

QF, R16, R32, R64 = round in which the player was eliminated in the match play
"T" = divided

Web links

• Player profile on the European Tour
• Tournament results of the last two years on the Official World Golf Ranking Website (English)
• Personal website
• Bernd Wiesberger on Twitter