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5 26 november 1981 1 saint-germain-en-laye , france cut : 2005 challenge tour alps tour josé-filipe lima.jpg josé-filipe lima klm open 2010 dnp 3 versailles , france 5 10 dnp cut : 2005 european tour 172 lb kg st on 2002 josé-filipe lima
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josé-filipe lima

josé-filipe lima -lrb- born 26 november 1981 -rrb- is a professional golfer .
he has portuguese parents but was born and grew up mainly in france .
his father worked at saint-nom-la-bretèche , which was the host course of the trophée lancôme until that tournament ceased in 2003 , and was his son 's first coach .
up until the end of 2004 lima represented france -lrb- as philippe lima -rrb- but he then adopted his parents ' nationality , began to use the portuguese form of his name professionally , and represented portugal in that year 's wgc-world cup .
lima was the top ranked french amateur at the end of 2001 and turned professional the following year .
in 2003 he was the fourth ranked player on the third-level alps tour , which qualified him to move up to the main developmental tour in europe , the challenge tour , for the 2004 season .
in back to back weeks in june 2004 he won the challenge tour 's segura viudas challenge de españa and the challenge tour/european tour co-sanctioned aa st omer open , which won him promotion to the european tour .
he played steadily in his first two full seasons on the european tour in 2005 and 2006 and retained his tour card for 2007 .
his parents are hail from the póvoa de varzim parish of aguçadoura , where lima visits on occasion during the off-season .
