With an amateur handicap of (+5), Colm Moriarty enjoyed an outstanding career as a full-time amateur golfer, coupled with a reputation for being one of the most exciting and aggressive players on the world amateur circuit in recent years. He was part of the Irish national team set up since he was sixteen years old and has enjoyed success not only in the most prestigious Irish amateur tournaments, but also in major amateur golf events all over the world.
In 2003, Colm astounded the world amateur game by winning both the Australian (NSW) amateur stroke play and match play titles in New South Wales, Australia. This marked the first time that any player managed to win both titles in one season for almost 30 years. In September 2003, he achieved the highest accolade in world amateur golf when selected to play in the victorious Walker Cup team at Ganton Golf Club. This victory marked the first time that the Great Britain & Ireland team managed to win three Walker Cup titles in a row.
Leaving his highly distinguished amateur golf career on a high note, Colm turned professional at the end of 2003 began competing on the European Challenge Tour.
Leaving his highly distinguished amateur golf career on a high note, Colm turned professional at the end of 2003 began competing on the European Challenge Tour.
In 2005 showed his potential in the Nissan Irish Open on the European Tour, when he received a sponsors invite to play in the event and went on to finish in 13th place, with Padraig Harrington being the only Irish player to finish ahead of him. Colm had a number of impressive finishes on the Challenge Tour in the 2005 season, the highlight of which was second position in the Kazakhstan Open.
Colm played a combination of Challenge Tour and Europro Tour for the 2007 season. He began the year on a bright note, winning his first professional event, the Europro Tours Wensum Valley tournament at the beginning of May. Then came his first Challenge Tour victory, the First Plus Wales Challenge in July.
Unfortunately those wins were not enough to break back onto the main European Tour, Moriarty finishing 34th in the final 2007 Challenge Tour Rankings. In 2008, Colm finished 55th in the rankings during a disappointing season that had six top 20's, but only two top 10's.
After a slow start to the 2009 Challenge Tour season, Colm produced many consistent performances, missing only 2 cuts from his final 14 events. Only one of these, however, would result in a top-10, and Moriarty finished 52nd on the Order of Merit. Despite a good effort at Tour School, Colm unfortunately missed the four-round cut mark and has played The Challenge Tour again in 2010.
This season Moriarty qualified for the 150th Open Championship where he finished in 37th place on one under in very difficult conditions and also notched up two top ten finishes on the Challenge Tour - ALLIANZ Golf Open du Grand Toulouse and Fred Olsen Challenge de España.
This season Moriarty qualified for the 150th Open Championship where he finished in 37th place on one under in very difficult conditions and also notched up two top ten finishes on the Challenge Tour - ALLIANZ Golf Open du Grand Toulouse and Fred Olsen Challenge de España.
Moriarty is currently in 42nd place in the Challenge Tour Rankings with the last event at the Apulia San Domenico Grand Final this week in Iyaly set to decide the top 20 places that offer European Tour exemptions for the 2011 season.
Fact File
Date of Birth: June 12th, 1979
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Attachment: Glasson Golf Hotel & Country Club
Turned Pro 2003 (plus 5)
Qualifying School (2001), (02), (03), 04, 05, (06), 07, (08), 09
