Darius van Driel

Darius van Driel
Noordwijk, September 2016
Personal information
Full name Darius Arjen Joel van Driel
Born (1989-06-02) 2 June 1989
Leidschendam, Netherlands
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Nationality  Netherlands
Residence The Hague, Netherlands
Career
Turned professional 2015
Current tour(s) Challenge Tour
Former tour(s) Alps Tour
Professional wins 5
Number of wins by tour
Challenge Tour 1
Other 4
Achievements and awards
NGF Young Talent of the Year 2015

Darius Arjen Joel van Driel (born 2 June 1989) is a Dutch professional golfer. He lives in The Hague and is a member of the Noordwijk Golf Club.

Amateur career

Born in Leidschendam, Netherlands, van Driel took up golf at the age of 11. His junior and amateur career, up to and including 2014, saw him win the Dutch National Strokeplay Championship under-19 (2007)[1] and under-22 (2010).[2] He also won the 2008 Dutch National Strokeplay Championship,[3] which earned him entry to that year's KLM Dutch Open where he missed the cut (+11) but finished as second Dutch amateur player.[4] He was selected as a member of the Dutch team for the European Amateur Team Championship in 2007 and 2010. Also during this period he took some time away from the game to complete a bachelor's degree in Economics and Sports Marketing at the Johan Cruyff Institute in Amsterdam. In 2013 he won the Dutch National Matchplay Championship.[5] and in 2014, his last year as an amateur, he finished second at the Lytham Trophy[6] and was again selected as a member of the Dutch team for the European Amateur Team Championship. He ended his amateur career by taking second place[7] in the qualifying school for the 2015 season of the Alps Tour, one of the European third-tier satellite tours.

Professional career

2015

In his first year as a professional golfer, van Driel competed in the Alps Tour. With one victory,[8][9] five 2nd places and four top-10 finishes, he won the overall Alps Tour Order of Merit.[8][10] As the 2015 Alps Tour champion, van Driel gained automatic entry to the 2016 Challenge Tour.[11]

In August 2015, van Driel also won the Dutch National Strokeplay Championship[12] and in December 2015 he was given the award for Talent of the year[13] by the Dutch Golf Federation.

2016

In 2016, van Driel competed in almost every round of the Challenge Tour, and with one second-place finish, in the Vierumäki Finnish Challenge, and five other top-10s, he finished 34th in the 2016 Order of Merit [14] ensuring his place in the 2017 Challenge Tour. He also represented the Netherlands, partnering with Joost Luiten,[15] in the 2016 World Cup of Golf held in Melbourne, Australia, from 24–27 November 2016. The Dutch team finished T17 on 8 under par.[16]

In his last tournament of the year, van Driel ended T6 in the 2016 Australian PGA Championship, one of the first tournaments of the 2017 European Tour.[17]

During 2016, he was the number 2 Dutch golfer in the Official World Golf Ranking[18] after Luiten.

Amateur wins

  • 2007 Dutch National Under 18 Strokeplay Championship
  • 2008 Dutch National Open Strokeplay Championship
  • 2010 Dutch National Under 21 Strokeplay Championship
  • 2013 Dutch National Matchplay Championship,
  • 2013 Dutch National Foursomes Championship (with Bernard Geelkerken)

Source:[19]

Professional wins (5)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 29 Jul 2018 Euram Bank Open −17 (70-64-62-67=263) 1 stroke Scotland David Law

Alps Tour wins (1)

  • 2015 Open International du Marcilly

Other wins (3)

  • 2015 Dutch National Strokeplay Championship
  • 2016 Duinzicht Invitational
  • 2018 Duinzicht Invitational

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

References

  1. ↑ "NGF 2007".
  2. ↑ "NGF 2010".
  3. ↑ "NGF 2008".
  4. ↑ "2008 KLM Open Leaderboard". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  5. ↑ "NGF 2013".
  6. ↑ "Lytham Trophy 2014". Royal Lytham.
  7. ↑ "2014 Alps Tour Qualifying School - Final Result".
  8. 1 2 "Darius van Driel – Player Tour Season Record: 2015". Alps Tour Golf.
  9. ↑ "Van Driel breekt de ban". golf.nl (in Dutch). 27 September 2015.
  10. ↑ "Israel Masters – Final Day". Alps Tour.
  11. ↑ "Darius van Driel profile". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  12. ↑ "Nationaal Open prooi voor Van Dam en Van Driel". golf.nl (in Dutch). 22 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "Golf Awards 2015". golf.nl (in Dutch).
  14. ↑ "Challenge Tour Road To Oman – 2016". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  15. ↑ "World Cup of Golf – Field". PGA Tour.
  16. ↑ http://www.pgatour.com/competition/2017/isps-handa-world-cup-of-golf/leaderboard.html
  17. ↑ http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2017/tournamentid=2016096/leaderboard/index.html#/results
  18. ↑ "Week 43 – 23 October 2016 – Netherlands". Official World Golf Ranking. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  19. 1 2 "Darius van Driel". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
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