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Spanish golfer In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Arnaus and the second or maternal family name is Antúnez.

Adri Arnaus
Personal information
Full nameAdrià Arnaus Antúnez
Born (1994-10-17) 17 October 1994 (age 30)
Barcelona, Spain
Sporting nationality Spain
Career
CollegeTexas A&M University
Turned professional2017
Current tour(s)Challenge Tour
Former tour(s)European Tour
Alps Tour
Professional wins4
Highest ranking49 (29 May 2022)
(as of 24 November 2024)
Number of wins by tour
European Tour1
Challenge Tour1
Other2
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipT30: 2022
U.S. OpenT58: 2019
The Open ChampionshipT76: 2022
Achievements and awards
Alps Tour
Order of Merit winner		2017

Adrià Arnaus Antúnez (born 17 October 1994) is a Spanish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He won the 2022 Catalunya Championship on the European Tour.

Amateur career

Arnaus attended Texas A&M University from 2012 to 2016. He had a successful year in 2017, winning the Spanish Amateur Championship and being a member of the Spanish team that won the European Amateur Team Championship. He played on the 2017 Alps Tour as an amateur and won two events, the Villaverde Open and the Alps Tour Grand Final which together with two runner-up finishes meant he led to Order of Merit to earn a place on the Challenge Tour for 2018.

Professional career

Arnaus turned professional in late 2017 and reached the final stage of the European Tour Q-School. He had a successful first year as a professional, playing mostly on the Challenge Tour. He won the end-of-season Challenge Tour Grand Final by a stroke from Victor Perez to finish second in the Order of Merit and earn a place on the 2019 European Tour. Earlier in the season he was runner-up to Jack Singh Brar in the Cordon Golf Open and also had a third-place finish and was fourth a further three times.

Arnaus claimed his first European Tour victory at the 2022 Catalunya Championship. He shot a final-round 65 to meet Oliver Bekker in a playoff. He won with a par on the sixth extra hole.

Amateur wins

  • 2010 Campeonato de Catalunya Junior, Spanish Under 16 Closed
  • 2012 Catalonian Junior Championship
  • 2013 Campeonato del Vallès
  • 2014 Copa de Andalucia
  • 2016 Copa de la Comunidad Valenciana, Campeonato de Catalunya Absoluto
  • 2017 Campeonato de España Amateur

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Professional wins (4)

European Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 1 May 2022 Catalunya Championship −11 (68-76-68-65=277) Playoff South Africa Oliver Bekker

European Tour playoff record (1–2)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 2021 Acciona Open de España Spain Rafa Cabrera-Bello Lost to birdie on first extra hole
2 2022 MyGolfLife Open Spain Pablo Larrazábal, England Jordan Smith Larrazábal won with birdie on second extra hole
Arnaus eliminated by birdie on first hole
3 2022 Catalunya Championship South Africa Oliver Bekker Won with par on sixth extra hole

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Legend
Grand Finals (1)
Other Challenge Tour (0)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 3 Nov 2018 Ras Al Khaimah Challenge Tour Grand Final −17 (66-69-67-69=271) 1 stroke France Victor Perez

Alps Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 10 Jun 2017 Villaverde Open
(as an amateur) 		−13 (66-64-67=197) Playoff France Gregoire Schoeb
2 22 Oct 2017 Alps Tour Grand Final
(as an amateur) 		−14 (69-70-66-65=270) 2 strokes Austria Christoph Koerbler, France Léo Lespinasse

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship T30 CUT
U.S. Open T58 CUT
The Open Championship CUT NT T76 CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Team appearances

Amateur

See also

References

  1. "Week 22 2022 Ending 29 May 2022" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  2. "Texas A&M University Athletics 2015-16 Men's Golf Roster Adrià Arnaus". 12thman.com. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  3. "Arnaus wins dramatic play-off on home soil for maiden title". European Tour. 1 May 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  4. "Adria Arnaus". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  5. "European Boys' Team Championship". European Golf Association.

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