Martin Wiegele

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Martin Wiegele
Martin Wiegele
Personnel
Nation: AustriaAustria Austria
Career data
Professional since: 2003
Current tour: Challenge Tour
Tournament wins: 9
Awards: Golfer of the year 2003 and 2010 (Austria)

Martin Wiegele (born July 11, 1978 in Graz ) is an Austrian professional golfer .

Career

After an internationally very successful amateur career , Wiegele embarked on a career as a golfer in 2003 and took the Challenge Tour by storm in its first season in 2003. He almost won his first European Tour tournament in which he took part, the BMW Russian Open , but lost in the jump-off against Marcus Fraser and finished second. Wiegele qualified fourth on the Challenge Tour money list for the elite league (European Tour 2004), but could not succeed there and lost his eligibility to play. As a consequence, he tackled major technical changes. In August 2007 he achieved his first major tournament victory as a professional - at the Lexus Open , a Challenge Tour event. In November of the same year Wiegele won the Tour School Final over six rounds in the Spanish San Roque Club and thus qualified for the European Tour of the 2008 season. He won the European Tour for the first time in 2010 and qualified in 2011 with 83rd final place in the Race to Dubai for the 2012 tour season. After cam impingement and an associated hip osteoarthritis was diagnosed on both hips, Wiegele underwent two complicated operations using arthroscopy at the beginning of 2012, whereby a comeback was granted in autumn 2012 at the earliest. He then lost his eligibility to play in the top league at the end of 2013. After some rather mixed years, Wiegele won another Challenge Tour tournament in Belgium in June 2017 . In the second half of the season, his right hip was troubling him again. Research revealed that the joint was in very poor condition. For this reason, he went under the knife again at the beginning of 2018 and had an artificial hip inserted at the age of 39.

Wiegele achieved his first major international success in 2004 at the prestigious WGC World Cup in Seville, when he and his partner Markus Brier achieved 5th place for Austria. After the first day, the two were even in the lead, in the end they shared prize money of $ 135,000. In June 2010, he won his first tournament on the European Tour, the St. Omer Open, for which he received prize money of 100,000 euros.

Martin Wiegele has been married to his wife Claudia since December 2011. April 2017 daughter Liliana was born.

Tournament victories

amateur

  • 1997 Austrian Amateur Closed Championship
  • 2000 Austrian Amateur Closed Championship
  • 2001 The Spirit International, Austrian Amateur Closed Championship
  • 2002 Slovak Amateur Open Championships, Austrian Amateur Closed Championship

professional

  • 2006 Croatian Open
  • 2006 Stage 1 Tour School (Challenge / European Tour)
  • 2007 Lexus Open ( Challenge Tour )
  • 2007 Tour School Final (Challenge / European Tour)
  • 2008 Gösser Open ( Alps Tour )
  • 2010 Carinthia Golf Open (Challenge Tour)
  • 2010 Saint-Omer Open ( European Tour )
  • 2013 International Austrian Foursome Championship (together with Uli Weinhandl)
  • 2017 KPMG Trophy (Challenge Tour)

Participation in team competitions

amateur

  • 2000 Eisenhower Trophy
  • 2001 The Spirit International (team gold and individual bronze medal)
  • 2002 Bonallack Trophy (European selection against Asia; best European in the tournament)
  • 2002 St Andrews Trophy (continental selection against GB / IRL; best continental European in the tournament)
  • 2002 Eisenhower Trophy (5th place team, 7th place individual)

professional

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personal data
SURNAME Wiegele, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian golfer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Styria , Austria