Andreas Halvorsen | |
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Personal information | |
Born | 8 December 1996 Larvik, Norway |
Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) |
Weight | 180 lb (82 kg) |
Sporting nationality | ![]() |
Career | |
Turned professional | 2015 |
Current tour(s) | European Tour |
Former tour(s) | Challenge Tour PGA Tour Latinoamérica Nordic Golf League |
Professional wins | 6 |
Number of wins by tour | |
Challenge Tour | 1 |
Other | 5 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP |
U.S. Open | CUT: 2019 |
The Open Championship | DNP |
Andreas Halvorsen (born 8 December 1996) is a Norwegian professional golfer and European Tour player. He won the 2024 Danish Golf Challenge, and was a runner-up at the 2017 Visa Open de Argentina and 2019 Abierto Mexicano de Golf. [1]
Halvorsen played for the National Team as an amateur. He represented Norway at the 2012 European Young Masters, and the European Boys' Team Championship three times, finishing second in 2013. [2]
He played in the 2014 Eisenhower Trophy and won the 2014 Junior Golf World Cup in Japan with Jarand Ekeland Arnøy, Kristoffer Reitan and Viktor Hovland, beating the American team led by Cameron Young into second. [3]
Halvorsen moved to St. Augustine, Florida in 2013 to train at the Tom Burnett Junior Golf Academy. During the 2013-14 Future Collegians World Tour season, he won five tournaments including the St. Augustine Amateur and the Florida Azalea Amateur. He played in the 2014 U.S. Junior Amateur where he knocked out Ryan Ruffels before losing 1 up to Sam Horsfield in the quarter-final. [4]
Halvorsen decided to skip college and turn pro at 18. [5]
Halvorsen turned professional by mid-2015. He played on PGA Tour Latinoamérica between 2016 and 2022, where he lost a playoff at the 2017 Visa Open de Argentina. In 2019, he was runner-up at the Abierto Mexicano de Golf, and in 2020 runner-up at the Classic at the Club at Weston Hills, a LocaliQ Series event.
He won two tournaments on the 2023 Nordic Golf League and finished the season 4th in the Order of Merit, earning promotion to the 2024 Challenge Tour, where he won the Danish Golf Challenge in his fifth start. [6]
After losing a playoff at the Kolkata Challenge, Halvorsen earned promotion to the 2025 European Tour, [a] where he recorded top-6 finishes at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open and Hero Indian Open. [7]
Sources: [8]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runners-up |
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1 | 26 May 2024 | Danish Golf Challenge | −19 (66-66-66-71=269) | 3 strokes | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponents | Result |
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1 | 2025 | Kolkata Challenge | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Berry won with birdie on second extra hole Chouhan eliminated by par on first hole |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | 11 Apr 2023 | Sand Valley Polish Masters | −14 (67-67-68=202) | 3 strokes | ![]() |
2 | 19 Apr 2023 | Sand Valley Spring Series Final | −16 (65-66-69=200) | Playoff | ![]() |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | 20 Aug 2018 | August Atlantic National Classic | −8 (63) | 3 strokes | ![]() |
PGA Tour Latinoamérica playoff record (0–1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponents | Result |
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1 | 2017 | Visa Open de Argentina | ![]() ![]() | Schnell won with birdie on first extra hole |
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