Laurie Canter | |
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Personal information | |
Full name | Laurence Richard Canter |
Born | Bath, Somerset, England | 3 November 1989
Sporting nationality | England |
Career | |
Turned professional | 2011 |
Current tour(s) | European Tour Asian Tour LIV Golf |
Former tour(s) | Challenge Tour PGA EuroPro Tour |
Professional wins | 1 |
Highest ranking | 81 (16 January 2022) [1] (as of 18 February 2024) |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | T48: 2022 |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | T17: 2023 |
Laurence Richard Canter (born 3 November 1989) is an English professional golfer who has been ranked inside the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking. He has been a member of the European Tour, and also played on LIV Golf, the Asian Tour, and several lower level tours. He is a former amateur champion in both South Africa and Spain.
Canter had a successful year in 2010, winning the South African Amateur Championship and playing in the St Andrews Trophy and Eisenhower Trophy. He was also part of the England team that won the European Amateur Team Championship that year and he also qualified for the 2010 Open Championship. He won the 2011 Spanish Amateur Open Championship. [2]
Canter turned professional in 2011, after winning the Spanish Amateur Open Championship. [2] He played on the Challenge Tour from 2011 to 2013 before dropping down to the Pro Golf Tour in 2014 and 2015.
Canter has an unusual records of qualifying for the European Tour through Q-school, four separate times. He qualified in 2015, 2016 and 2017 but failed to regain his place on the tour on each occasion. After a season returning to the Challenge Tour, he finished tied for 5th in the 2019 European Tour Qualifying School to gain a place on the European Tour for 2020. [2] 2020 proved to be more successful than his previous attempts on the tour. He had his first top-10 finish in the Hero Open and followed this with a tie for 5th place in the ISPS Handa Wales Open and runner-up finishes in the Portugal Masters and the Italian Open. [2] [3]
He finished tied-second at the 2021 BMW PGA Championship; one shot behind Billy Horschel. [4]
In 2022, Canter joined LIV Golf. As a result he was suspended and fined by the DP World Tour, and ultimately did not retain his exemption status at the end of the season. In 2023, he was retained as a reserve by LIV Golf. [5] He substituted for Cleeks team captain Martin Kaymer in the first three events of the season, [6] and subsequently for Sam Horsfield, on the Majesticks team, for several events after he withdrew injured during the fourth event in Adelaide. [7] At the promotions event, he lost in a playoff for the final spot on a team roster for 2024. He was given one of the two wild card places for the opening event of the season. [8]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runners-up |
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1 | 15 Sep 2015 | The Players Club | −12 (67-65=132) | Playoff | Jack Heasman, Bradley Moore (a) |
Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
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1 | 2019 | KPMG Trophy | Dale Whitnell | Lost to birdie on second extra hole |
Results not in chronological order in 2020.
Tournament | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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Masters Tournament | |||||||||
U.S. Open | |||||||||
The Open Championship | CUT | T37 | |||||||
PGA Championship |
Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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Masters Tournament | |||||
PGA Championship | T48 | ||||
U.S. Open | |||||
The Open Championship | NT | T79 | T17 |
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
Tournament | 2021 |
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Championship | T64 |
Match Play | |
Invitational | |
Champions | NT1 |
1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament
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