Andreas Halvorsen (golfer)

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Andreas Halvorsen
Personal information
Born (1996-12-08) 8 December 1996 (age 27)
Larvik, Norway
Height6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
Weight180 lb (82 kg)
Sporting nationalityFlag of Norway.svg  Norway
Career
Turned professional2015
Current tour(s) Challenge Tour
Former tour(s) PGA Tour Latinoamérica
Nordic Golf League
Professional wins6
Number of wins by tour
Challenge Tour1
Other5
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 who plays on the Challenge Tour. He won the 2024 Danish Golf Challenge, and was runner-up at the 2017 Visa Open de Argentina and 2019 Abierto Mexicano de Golf. [1]

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Amateur career

Halvorsen played for the National Team as an amateur, and 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 Golf Championship 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]

Professional career

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 May. [6]

Amateur wins

Sources: [7]

Professional wins (6)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runners-up
126 May 2024 Danish Golf Challenge −19 (66-66-66-71=269)3 strokes Flag of Iceland.svg Guðmundur Kristjánsson, Flag of Finland.svg Oliver Lindell,
Flag of England.svg John Parry

Nordic Golf League wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
111 Apr 2023 Sand Valley Polish Masters−14 (67-67-68=202)3 strokes Flag of Sweden.svg Christofer Blomstrand
219 Apr 2023Sand Valley Spring Series Final−16 (65-66-69=200)Playoff Flag of Sweden.svg Jesper Hagborg Asp

Minor League Golf Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
120 Aug 2018August Atlantic National Classic−8 (63)3 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Kris Wilcoxon

Other wins (2)

Team appearances

Amateur

Sources: [7] [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Andreas Halvorsen Bio". European Tour. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  2. 1 2 "European Boys' Team Championship – European Golf Association" . Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  3. ↑ "2014 Toyota Junior World Cup". WAGR. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  4. ↑ "Halvorsen's Big Move Pays Big Dividends". USGA. 24 July 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  5. ↑ Casey, Kevin (8 November 2018). "Years after skipping college, Andreas Halvorsen back at Q-School but optimistic". Golfweek. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  6. ↑ "Norske Andreas Halvorsen vinder Danish Golf Challenge i Odense" [Norwegian Andreas Halvorsen wins Danish Golf Challenge in Odense] (in Danish). Danish Golf. 27 May 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  7. 1 2 "Andreas Halvorsen". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  8. ↑ Roche, Bryant (11 June 2022). "Norway's Andreas Halvorsen wins United Way Classic at Hardscrabble Country Club". Fort Smith Times Record. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
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