Andrea Pavan

Pavan won the Italian Amateur Strokeplay Championship in 2005 at the age of 16 and subsequently opted to join the collegiate circuit in the USA. He spent four years studying at Texas A&M and enjoyed a successful career on the golf team, including winning a collegiate event in 2010 and being part of the team which won the 2009 NCAA Men's Golf Championship. He also enjoyed success in Europe, winning further events in his home country and finishing runner-up in the 2010 European Amateur. Pavan was a member of Team Europe to play against GB&I for the Jacques Leglise Trophy from 2004-2006, and again for the St. Andrews Trophy in 2008. He was also a member of the European Team that took on the USA for the Palmer Cup in both 2009 & 2010. He has been a quarterfinalist at the British Amateur Championship in 2008 & 2010.
Pavan turned professional in 2010. Having failed to come through qualifying school for either the European or PGA Tours, he relied on invites to the Challenge Tour in 2011. A runner-up finish at the Karnten Golf Open, where he had been the longtime leader, secured him full-time status at that level. He enjoyed further success, leading the Credit Suisse Challenge at the halfway stage before a final round 86, before claiming his first professional victory at the Norwegian Challenge. He won again at the season-ending Challenge Tour Grand Final to secure his place on the European Tour for 2012.
2012 Notes: Played in 28 European Tour events and making the cut 8 times. Best finish was T-12th Avantha Masters, finished 158th on the money list and was not able to keep his European Tour card.
2013 Notes: Played in 23 European Challenge Tour events, won twice Bad Griesbach Challenge Tour and Open Blue Green CÃ?Æ?Ã?â??Ã?â? Ã¢â?¬â?¢Ã?Æ?ââ?¬Â Ã?¢ââ??‰â??¢Ã?Æ?Ã?â??Ã?¢ââ??¬Ã?¡Ã?Æ?ââ?¬Å¡Ã?â??Ã?´tes d'Armor Bretagne. Led the money list which gets him back to the European Tour in 2014.
2014 Notes: Played in 31 European Tour events making 14 cuts with four top-ten finishes. Best finish T-8th at the Hong Kong Open and M2M Russian Open. He earned euro204,022 and was 119th in the Race to Dubai.
2015 Notes: Played in 21 European Tour events making 8 cuts. Best finish T-20th at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, he was 187th in the Race to Dubai.
2016 Notes: Played in 20 events on the Challenge Tour making 14 cuts with 4 top-ten finishes. Was T-7th four times, Turkish Airlines Challenge, Montecchia Open by Lyoness, Vierumaki Finnish Challenge, and Najeti Open. Finished 50th in the Order of Merit.
2017 Notes: Played in 21 Challenge Tour events making 9 cuts with one top-ten finish, T-2nd at the Cordon Golf Open. Was 66th in the Order of Merit.
2018 Notes: Played in 29 European Tour events making 24 cuts with five top-ten finishes. Won the D+D Real Czech Masters and T-3rd at the Trophee Hassan II. Earned euro1,267,543 and was 34th in the Race to Dubai.
2019 Notes: Won at the BMW International Open beating Matthew Fitzpatrick in a playoff. Three weeks later at the Aberdeen Standard Investment Scottish Open finished T-4th, 3 shots back of the Wiesberger/Hebert Playoff.