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Martin Couvra

{{short description|French professional golfer (born 2003)}}

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Martin Couvra (born 17 January 2003) is a French professional golfer and European Tour player. He won the 2025 Turkish Airlines Open, and previously had captured the 2023 Challenge de España to become the 7th amateur to win on the Challenge Tour.{{cite web |title=Martin Couvra Player Profile |url=https://www.europeantour.com/players/martin-couvra-101251/career-record?tour=dpworld-tour |publisher=European Tour |access-date=9 May 2025}}

Amateur career

Couvra was trained at the École de Golf de Frégate in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer. He won the 2022 French Amateur for the Coupe Murat, five strokes ahead of the runners-up.{{cite web |title=Coupe Murat : Au bonheur de Couvra |trans-title=Murat Cup: Au bonheur de Couvra |url=https://asfregate.fr/coupe-murat-au-bonheur-de-couvra |work=Asfregate |language=fr |date=2 June 2022 |access-date=9 May 2025}}

In 2023, Couvra won three trophies in the space of two weeks in South Africa. He became the first ever player to win, in the same season, the South African Stroke Play Championship and the South African Amateur Championship, including the Proudfoot Trophy as medalist of the 36-hole stroke play qualifying after a playoff with Aldrich Potgieter.{{cite web |title=Martin Couvra Makes History in South Africa |url=https://www.ega-golf.ch/content/martin-couvra-makes-history-south-africa |publisher=EGA |access-date=9 May 2025 |date=27 February 2023}}

Professional career

Couvra turned professional and joined the Challenge Tour after he won the Challenge de España as an amateur in September 2023.{{cite news |last1=Gussoni |first1=Andrea |title=Martin Couvra, a victory changes everything |url=https://www.tennisworldusa.org/other_news/golf/137566/martin-couvra-a-victory-changes-everything/ |access-date=9 May 2025 |work=Tennis World USA |date=13 September 2023}} He became the seventh amateur in history to win on the Challenge Tour after prevailing in a playoff with Andrea Pavan and Dermot McElroy.{{cite news |title=McElroy shoots 62 to make Challenge de Espana playoff but loses out to Martin Couvra |url=https://irishgolfer.ie/latest-golf-news/2023/09/10/mcelroy-shoots-62-to-make-challenge-de-espana-playoff-but-loses-out-to-martin-couvra/ |access-date=9 May 2025 |work=Irish Golfer |date=10 September 2023}}

Couvra finished 17th in the rankings and graduated to the European Tour for 2025. He recorded several top-5 finishes early on in his rookie season before winning the Turkish Airlines Open.{{cite web |title=Martin Couvra enjoying life on tour after strong start to rookie DP World Tour season |url=https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/news/articles/detail/martin-couvra-enjoying-life-on-tour-after-strong-start-to-rookie-dp-world-tour-season/ |publisher=European Tour |access-date=9 May 2025}}{{cite news |title=Martin Couvra in pole position at Turkish Open as he chases first DP World Tour title |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/golf/martin-couvra-turkish-day-two-open-result-b2748197.html |access-date=9 May 2025 |work=The Independent |date=9 May 2025}}

Amateur wins

Source:{{cite web |url=https://www.wagr.com/playerprofile/martin-couvra-32690 |title=Martin Couvra |publisher=World Amateur Golf Ranking |accessdate=9 May 2025}}

Professional wins (3)

=European Tour wins (1)=

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!No.

!Date

!Tournament

!Winning score

!Margin of
victory

!Runners-up

align=center|1

|align=right|11 May 2025

|Turkish Airlines Open

|−17 (65-66-72-64=267)

|2 strokes

|{{flagicon|ESP}} Jorge Campillo, {{flagicon|CHN}} Li Haotong

=Challenge Tour wins (1)=

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!No.

!Date

!Tournament

!Winning score

!Margin of
victory

!Runners-up

align=center|1

|align=right|10 Sep 2023

|Challenge de España
(as an amateur)

|−12 (67-70-66-65=268)

|Playoff

|{{flagicon|NIR}} Dermot McElroy, {{flagicon|ITA}} Andrea Pavan

Challenge Tour playoff record (1–0)

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!No.!!Year!!Tournament!!Opponents!!Result

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|2023

|Challenge de España
(as an amateur)

|{{flagicon|NIR}} Dermot McElroy, {{flagicon|ITA}} Andrea Pavan

|Won with par on second extra hole
Pavan eliminated by par on first hole

=French Tour wins (1)=

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!No.

!Date

!Tournament

!Winning score

!Margin of
victory

!Runners-up

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|align=right|16 Oct 2022

|Open d'Arcachon 2022
(as an amateur)

|−14 (64-67-68=199)

|1 stroke

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Antoine Auboin, {{flagicon|FRA}} Grégory Havret

Team appearances

Amateur

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See also

References

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External links

  • {{EuroTour player|101251}}
  • {{OWGR|27811}}

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