A look at the career so far of new BMW PGA Champion Chris Wood

Chris Wood had initial ambitions of playing football for his beloved Bristol City scuppered by a knee injury, so he turned his full attention to golf following a promising junior career.

A single-figure handicapper by the time he reached 12 years of age, Wood went on to win the English Amateur Order of Merit in both 2007 and 2008 - the year he shot to prominence with a remarkable performance in the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.

With his father on his bag, Wood went into the final round just six shots behind surprise leader Greg Norman, and he leapt into contention with an excellent front nine in tough, blustery conditions.

The then 20-year-old could not quite maintain his challenge and settled for a share of fifth with Jim Furyk, seven shots adrift of champion Padraig Harrington, and Wood was the runaway winner of the Silver Medal as leading amateur.

Wood decided to turn professional shortly afterwards, and he posted a top-20 finish in his first outing among the paid ranks at the SAS Masters in Sweden before missing the cut in four of his next five starts.

A top 10 finish in Portugal was not enough to avoid a trip to the dreaded Qualifying School, but he survived the challenge to earn his European Tour card for the 2009 season.

He retained that card comfortably over the next two years, finishing 44th and 53rd in the Order of Merit and he again enjoyed a strong performance in The Open at Turnberry, where a birdie at the final hole would have seen him pip Stewart Cink and veteran Tom Watson to the title.

But his approach to the 18th bounded over the green and he was unable to get up and down for par, which left him one shot outside of the play-off and in a share of third place with Lee Westwood.

Wood was named 2009 European Tour Rookie of the Year and led going into the final round of the 2010 BMW PGA Championship before fading into a share of sixth at Wentworth, but his form dipped in the 2011 season as he missed the cut in 10 of his 23 starts.

He did manage his first two runner-up finishes in the Africa Open, where he lost out to Open champion Louis Oosthuizen in a play-off, and the Iberdrola Open later in the year.

Wood made significant progress the following season, firing a final-round 64 to take second spot at the Sicilian Open and falling one stroke shot of Danny Willett at the BMW International Open.

The Bristolian secured a first professional title with a two-shot win on the OneAsia Tour at the Thailand Open, before surging in to the world's top 100 in January 2013 with a shock final-hole victory at the Qatar Masters. 

Having made his move with a third-round 64, Wood found himself one off the pace as he made to the last but snatched victory ahead of George Coetzee and Sergio Garcia by holing a 12-foot eagle. 

A quarter-final exit in the Volvo World Match Play Championship was followed by strong showings at the WGC-Bridgestone and Alfred Dunhill Links Championship to finish in a career-best 29th in the Order of Merit.

Wood missed out on a third consecutive appearance to the DP World Tour Championship in 2014 as a wrist injury ruled him out of action of the Final Series, slipping out of the world's top 100 by the end of the year.

He returned to action with back-to-back missed cuts five months later, but moved back up the rankings by following top-fives in Morocco and at Wentworth, where he won a BMW for posting a hole-in-one during the final round. 

A second European Tour title soon followed, with a bogey-free 67 seeing him through to a two-shot win over Rafa Cabrera Bello in Austria at the Lyoness Open. 

Four consecutive top-10 finishes on the European Tour saw Wood close the season strongly, before he secured a first Masters invite by ending the year-ending Nedbank Golf Challenge in third spot. 

After helping Europe to EurAsia Cup victory in Kuala Lumpur in January 2016, Wood could only manage one top-15 in his next two starts before claiming his biggest scalp to date at the BMW PGA Championship. 

Wood went in to the weekend eight shots off the pace but moved within three on Saturday with a four-under 68, before a front-nine 29 during the final round saw him take control at the top of the leaderboard.

Despite a wobble after the turn and three bogeys in a five-hole stretch, the 28-year-old held on for his biggest win to date and secure a five-year exemption on the European Tour.