In 2016, he won the European Tour's Trophée Hassan II on a sponsor exemption.

[2] He made a birdie on the second extra hole of a sudden-death playoff to defeat Nacho Elvira.

The following week, he won again at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, a co-sanctioned event on the European, Sunshine and Asian Tours.

His third European Tour win came at the 2017 Commercial Bank Qatar Masters where he beat Joakim Lagergren and Jaco van Zyl in a playoff.

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