Joel Girrbach

Joel Girrbach
Personal information
Born (1993-07-19) 19 July 1993 (age 31)
Kreuzlingen, Thurgau, Switzerland
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight76 kg (168 lb)
Sporting nationality Switzerland
Career
Turned professional2015
Current tour(s)European Tour
Former tour(s)Challenge Tour
Pro Golf Tour
Professional wins1
Number of wins by tour
Challenge Tour1

Joel Girrbach (born 19 July 1993) is a Swiss professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He won the 2017 Swiss Challenge on the Challenge Tour.[1]

Early life and amateur career

Girrbach started playing golf at the age of eight. He was playing off scratch by the time he was 16, and won the 2011 Swiss Junior Championship. He was educated at Berufsbildungszentrum Weinfeldenand.[1]

Professional career

Girrbach turned professional in 2015 and joined the Challenge Tour. In 2016, he was runner-up at the Red Sea Egyptian Challenge and in 2017 he won his first title, the Swiss Challenge at Golf Sempach by two strokes.[2]

In 2018, he was runner-up at the Prague Golf Challenge and the Hopps Open de Provence.[3]

In 2023, Girrbach was runner-up at The Challenge in India and the Hainan Open in China, and graduated to the European Tour for 2024. In his rookie season, he recorded several top-10 finishes, including a T-8 at the Bahrain Championship and a T-3 at the Volvo China Open.[4] On the back of these results, he qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[5]

Amateur wins

  • 2011 Swiss Junior Championship
  • 2013 Ticino Championship, Finnish Amateur
  • 2014 Leman Championship

Source:[6]

Professional wins (1)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 4 Jun 2017 Swiss Challenge −17 (68-67-64-68=267) 2 strokes Scotland Craig Lee

Team appearances

Amateur

Source:[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Joel Girrbach Bio". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Girrbach going in search of Swiss Challenge double". PGA European Tour. 19 September 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Joel Girrbach". Official World Golf Ranking. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  4. ^ Ballengee, Ryan (5 May 2024). "2024 Volvo China Open final results: Prize money payout, DP World Tour leaderboard, how much each golfer won". Golf News Net. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  5. ^ Ferguson, Doug (25 June 2024). "Dutch Olympic officials will deny golfers from men's competition in Paris". ABC News. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Joel Girrbach". World Amateur Golf Rankings. Retrieved 27 June 2024.