José-Filipe Lima

José-Filipe Lima

Personal information
Born (1981-11-26) 26 November 1981
Versailles, France
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight 172 lb (78 kg; 12.3 st)
Nationality  Portugal
Residence Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Career
Turned professional 2002
Current tour(s) European Tour
Former tour(s) Challenge Tour
Alps Tour
Professional wins 6
Number of wins by tour
European Tour 1
Challenge Tour 4
Other 2
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament DNP
U.S. Open CUT: 2005
The Open Championship T70: 2008
PGA Championship DNP

José-Filipe Lima (born 26 November 1981) is a professional golfer. He has Portuguese parents but was born and grew up mainly in France. His father worked at Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche, which was the host course of the Trophée Lancôme until that tournament ceased in 2003, and was his son's first coach. Up until the end of 2004 Lima represented France (as Philippe Lima) but he then adopted his parents' nationality, began to use the Portuguese form of his name professionally, and represented Portugal in that year's WGC-World Cup.

Lima was the top ranked French amateur at the end of 2001 and turned professional the following year. In 2003 he was the fourth ranked player on the third-level Alps Tour, which qualified him to move up to the main developmental tour in Europe, the Challenge Tour, for the 2004 season. In back to back weeks in June 2004 he won the Challenge Tour's Segura Viudas Challenge de España and the Challenge Tour/European Tour co-sanctioned Aa St Omer Open, which won him promotion to the European Tour. He played steadily in his first two full seasons on the European Tour in 2005 and 2006 and retained his tour card for 2007.

His parents are hail from the Póvoa de Varzim parish of Aguçadoura, where Lima visits on occasion during the off-season.

Amateur wins (1)

Professional wins (6)

European Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 20 Jun 2004 Aa St Omer Open
(dual-ranking event with the Challenge Tour)		 −5 (71-71-71-66=279) 1 stroke Italy Alessandro Tadini

Challenge Tour wins (4)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 13 Jun 2004 Segura Viudas Challenge de España −14 (73-67-67-67=274) Playoff Italy Alessandro Napoleoni
2 20 Jun 2004 Aa St Omer Open
(dual-ranking event with the European Tour)		 −5 (71-71-71-66=279) 1 stroke Italy Alessandro Tadini
3 4 Oct 2009 ECCO Tour Championship −5 (70-69-72=211) 1 stroke Italy Edoardo Molinari
4 19 Jun 2016 Najeti Open (2) −9 (66-70-71-68=275) 2 strokes Belgium Thomas Detry, Italy Alessandro Tadini

Other wins (2)

Results in major championships

Tournament 2005 2006 2007 2008
Masters Tournament DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open CUT DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship DNP DNP CUT T70
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

See also

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