Ended 2010 on a high by winning the WGC-HSBC Champions and coming tied sixth at the Dubai World Championship presented by DP World to finish a career-best fifth in The Race to Dubai. That followed a Ryder Cup debut in October, where he won a crucial half point with brother Edoardo in the fourballs as Europe beat America 14½-13½. Also achieved team success with Edoardo a year earlier as they made history by winning the Omega Mission Hills World Cup for Italy. Underlined his reputation as one of Europe’s most consistent performers in 2010 with 11 top tens, including losing a play-off to Miguel Angel Jiménez in the Alstom Open de France, second in the Portugal Masters, third in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles and tied fourth in the Barclays Scottish Open. Both times in Scotland he played in the final group with Edoardo, who went on to victory on both occasions. The younger, by nearly two years, of the golfing Molinari brothers, Francesco upstaged the exploits of his elder sibling at Castello di Tolcinasco G & CC in Milan in early May 2006, just nine months after Edoardo became the first Italian winner of the US Amateur Championship at Merion. Francesco thrilled the Milanese crowds by capturing the Telecom Italian Open, the first success in the event by an Italian since Massimo Mannelli 26 years earlier. Enjoys snowboarding in the winter, playing football and supporting Inter Milan.