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david lynn -lrb- golfer -rrb-

david anthony lynn -lrb- born 20 october 1973 -rrb- is an english golfer who has played mainly on the european tour , but took up full-time membership on the pga tour for the 2013 season .
he won the 1994 greek amateur championship , where he finished eight shots ahead of david howell .
he turned professional in 1995 .
lynn has won twice in his professional career .
firstly at the 1997 team erhverv danish open on the challenge tour and then at the 2004 klm open on the european tour .
his best european tour order of merit finish to date is 18th in 2012 and he has been ranked in the top 100 every year since 2000 .
he has featured in the top 50 on the official world golf ranking .
he notably finished second in the 2012 pga championship , eight strokes behind winner rory mcilroy on five under par after consecutive rounds of 68 over the weekend .
this was only his second appearance in a major championship and the result ensured a return to next year 's pga championship , as well as a first ever visit to the masters tournament .
he also moved up to a career high ranking of 40th .
on the back of his runner-up finish at the 2012 pga championship and having earned enough money as a non-member , lynn joined the pga tour full-time for the 2013 season .
lynn came close to earning his first pga tour victory in may 2013 at the wells fargo championship .
he finished regulation play at eight-under-par , tied with american rookie derek ernst .
however , lynn lost on the first sudden-death playoff hole to an ernst par , after hitting his second shot into a greenside bunker and was unable to get up-and-down for par .
in october 2013 , lynn won the portugal masters , shooting a final-round of 63 to win his first european tour title in nine years .
