Joost Luiten
| Joost Luiten | |
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Willibrordus Adrianus Maria Luiten |
| Born |
7 January 1986 Bleiswijk, Netherlands |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (150 lb; 11 st) |
| Nationality |
 Netherlands
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| Residence | Bleiswijk, Netherlands |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 2006 |
| Current tour(s) | European Tour |
| Professional wins | 8 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| European Tour | 5 |
| Asian Tour | 1 |
| Challenge Tour | 2 |
| Other | 1 |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | T26: 2014 |
| U.S. Open | T39: 2015 |
| The Open Championship | T45: 2012 |
| PGA Championship | T21: 2012 |
Willibrordus Adrianus Maria "Joost" Luiten (born 7 January 1986) is a Dutch professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.
Luiten was born in Bleiswijk and started playing golf at 6 years old at Golf Centrum Rotterdam. As an amateur, he won the 2005 Spanish Amateur Open Championship and German Amateur Open Championship; he represented his country in the winning team of the 2006 Eisenhower Trophy and was selected in the same year for the Palmer Cup.
After a failed bid for a tour card at Qualifying School he started his professional career on the EPD Tour where he claimed second place twice in just four starts. Because he was not in possession of a tour card Luiten was solely dependent on invites to play on the Challenge Tour.
He received one for the Tusker Kenya Open where he birdied the 72nd hole for a share of tenth place. This was enough to earn himself a start in the next tournament where he finished third. On his way to show how to make perfect use of a single invite Luiten went on to win in France, his third start of the season. In his first six events of 2007, he won two of them. On his way to winning the Vodafone Challenge he shot a 61 (-11) in the final round, the lowest final round total by a tournament winner.
After finishing sixth in the 2007 Challenge Tour rankings he received a European Tour card for 2008 and claimed two top 10 spots before injury curtailed his season.
Luiten was a member of the 2006 Dutch team that won the Eisenhower Trophy after he played his last five holes in six under par.
Luiten finished second at the KLM Open, a European Tour event, in 2007 and has been the highest ranked Dutch golfer in the Official World Golf Rankings. In January 2008 he reached the top 100 in the rankings.
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