Benjamin Hébert (born 19 February 1987) is a French professional golfer.

Early life In 1987, Hébert was born in Brive, France. His parents are Jean-Luc, a former pentathlete, and Françoise, a former swimmer, both of whom now work as teachers. He also has one sister, Audrey. Hébert spent some of his childhood in Tahiti, from age 14 to 18, before graduating from high school in 2005.

Amateur career Hébert enjoyed a successful amateur career. He spent three years on the French national team, the highlight being representing his country at the 2008 Eisenhower Trophy. He won a number of individual tournaments, the most notable being the European Amateur in 2007, which gained him entry to the following year's Open Championship. He also represented Europe in the St Andrews Trophy.

Professional career In 2009, Hébert turned professional. He enjoyed immediate success on the Challenge Tour, recording a third-place finish in the Piemonte Open after receiving a special invite. He recorded his first professional victory on the third-level Alps Tour later in the summer, before earning a card for the European Tour at qualifying school at the end of the year. However, he struggled to settle at this level, making twelve cuts but not recording a single top-twenty finish, and he failed to retain his card. In July 2011, Hébert won his first tournament on the Challenge Tour at the Credit Suisse Challenge. He followed up with a second win a week later at the English Challenge. He won his third tournament of the year, the Rolex Trophy, in August to earn a promotion to the European Tour.

In 2012, while on the European Tour, Hébert finished in the top-10 once, T-6 at the Lyoness Open and finished 195th on the Race to Dubai, losing his tour card. He returned to the Challenge Tour in 2013 and 2014. In 2014, he won his fourth Challenge Tour event in August at the Norwegian Challenge, he soon followed this up with his second with of the 2014 season in September at the Open Blue Green Côtes d'Armor Bretagne. In the final event of the 2014 season at the Dubai Festival City Challenge Tour Grand Final, he secured his third Challenge Tour win of the season and 6th career win on the tour. In doing so Hébert finished second in the Challenge Tour Rankings behind Andrew Johnston, which earned him European Tour card for 2015 and became the first player to have three Challenge Tour wins in two separate seasons.

Since 2015 Hébert has played on the European Tour. He was runner-up in the 2018 Belgian Knockout where he lost to Adrián Otaegui in the final. He lost in a playoff for the 2019 Volvo China Open against Mikko Korhonen. He also lost in a playoff for the 2019 Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open against Bernd Wiesberger.

Amateur wins 2006 Grand Prix de Niort 2007 European Amateur, La Coupe Mouchy (joint), Grand Prix de Bordeaux-Lac, Grand Prix Palmola, Grand Prix de Saint Cyprien

Professional wins (8) Challenge Tour wins (6) Legend Grand Finals (1) Other Challenge Tour (5) No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin ofvictoryRunner(s)-up117 Jul 2011Credit Suisse Challenge−12 (67-67-67-71=272)4 strokes Jamie Moul224 Jul 2011English Challenge−12 (71-66-69-70=276)2 strokes Victor Riu327 Aug 2011Rolex Trophy−19 (66-65-71-67=269)1 stroke Jorge Campillo, Tommy Fleetwood410 Aug 2014Norwegian Challenge−15 (65-67-69-72=273)2 strokes Florian Fritsch57 Sep 2014Open Blue Green Côtes d'Armor Bretagne−15 (66-66-67-66=265)3 strokes Andrew McArthur68 Nov 2014Dubai Festival City Challenge Tour Grand Final−12 (70-69-68-69=276)5 strokes Jérôme Lando-Casanova

Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1) No.YearTournamentOpponentResult12024Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge Joel MoscatelLost to par on first extra hole

Alps Tour wins (1) No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin ofvictoryRunner-up19 Aug 2009Omnium of Belgium−16 (69-71-66-66=272)1 stroke Joost Luiten

French Tour wins (1) No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin ofvictoryRunner-up118 Oct 2014Richard Mille Invitational2 and 1 Édouard Dubois

Playoff record European Tour playoff record (0–3) No.YearTournamentOpponent(s)Result12019Volvo China Open Mikko KorhonenLost to birdie on first extra hole22019Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open Bernd WiesbergerLost to par on third extra hole32019Turkish Airlines Open Tyrrell Hatton, Kurt Kitayama, Victor Perez, Matthias Schwab, Erik van RooyenHatton won with par on fourth extra holeKitayama eliminated by birdie on third holeHébert, Perez and van Rooyen eliminated by birdie on first hole

Results in major championships Results not in chronological order in 2020. Tournament2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018Masters TournamentU.S. OpenThe Open ChampionshipCUTPGA Championship Tournament201920202021Masters TournamentPGA ChampionshipCUTU.S. OpenThe Open ChampionshipT41NTT33

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

Results in World Golf Championships Tournament20192020ChampionshipT18Match PlayNT1InvitationalChampionsT65NT1 1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

NT = No tournament "T" = Tied

Team appearances Amateur European Amateur Team Championship (representing France): 2008 Eisenhower Trophy (representing France): 2008 St Andrews Trophy (representing the Continent of Europe): 2008 Bonallack Trophy (representing Europe): 2008 (winners) European Team Championships (representing France): 2008

See also 2009 European Tour Qualifying School graduates 2011 Challenge Tour graduates 2014 Challenge Tour graduates 2024 Challenge Tour graduates List of golfers with most Challenge Tour wins List of golfers to achieve a three-win promotion from the Challenge Tour

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