Tonje Daffinrud

Tonje Daffinrud
Personal information
Full name	Tonje Frydenberg Daffinrud
Born	(1991-09-19) 19 September 1991 (age 34) Tønsberg, Norway
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sporting nationality	Norway
Residence	Østerås, Oslo, Norway
Career
College	University of Denver
Turned professional	2014
Current tours	Ladies European Tour (joined 2015) LET Access Series Swedish Golf Tour
Professional wins	5
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship	DNP
Women's PGA C'ship	DNP
U.S. Women's Open	DNP
Women's British Open	CUT: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Evian Championship	DNP
Achievements and awards
Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit 2019

Tonje Frydenberg Daffinrud (born 19 September 1991) is a retired Norwegian professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour between 2015 and 2021, and represented Norway at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. ^[1]

Amateur career

As a junior, Daffinrud represented Europe at the 2009 Junior Solheim Cup. ^[2] She also represented the Norwegian National Team at the European Ladies' Team Championship and Espirito Santo Trophy. She played collegiate golf with the Denver Pioneers, like her compatriot Espen Kofstad, and graduated from the University of Denver in 2014 with a degree in International Business and Economics. ^{[1] [3]}

In 2016, she won the Norwegian National Golf Championship and was awarded the Kongepokal. ^{[4] [5]}

Professional career

Daffinrud joined the LET Access Series midway through the 2014 season and won two tournaments back-to-back in October, the Azores Ladies Open in Azores, Portugal and the Grecotel Amirandes Ladies Open in Crete, Greece. After three further top-five finishes, she finished fifth on the 2014 LETAS Order of Merit and earned LET membership for the 2015 Ladies European Tour. ^{[6] [7]}

Her rookie season on the LET in 2015 was affected by injury. She played in eight tournaments with a season best T13 at the Lalla Meryem Cup. In 2017, she earned her first top-10 finish with a T6 in the Oates Vic Open and in 2019 posted two top-10s, T10 in La Reserva de Sotogrande Invitational and her career best finish of T4 in the Ladies European Thailand Championship along with Marianne Skarpnord. ^[1] She qualified for the 2017, 2019 and 2020 Women's British Open as one of the top 25 from the current LET Order of Merit, and was successful in the local qualifiers in 2018.

In 2019, she won the Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit ^[8] and finished a career-best 18th on the LET Order of Merit. ^[9]

Plagued by injuries, Daffinrud announced her retirement from tour following the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, just days before her 30th birthday. ^[10]

Professional wins (5)

LET Access Series wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	3 Oct 2014	Azores Ladies Open	71-68-73=212	−4	3 strokes	Daniela Prorokova
2	10 Oct 2014	Grecotel Amirandes Ladies Open	66-67-70=203	−10	3 strokes	Daisy Nielsen
3	29 Aug 2019	Scandic PGA Championship 1	66-70-66=202	−14	2 strokes	Johanna Gustavsson Maja Stark

¹Co-sanctioned by the Swedish Golf Tour

Swedish Golf Tour (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	4 Jul 2019	Moss & Rygge Open	70-64-67=201	−15	8 strokes	Michaela Finn
2	29 Aug 2019	Scandic PGA Championship 1	66-70-66=202	−14	2 strokes	Johanna Gustavsson Maja Stark

¹Co-sanctioned by the LET Access Series

Other wins

• 2016 Norwegian National Golf Championship

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament	2017	2018	2019	2020
ANA Inspiration
U.S. Women's Open
Women's PGA Championship
The Evian Championship				NT
Women's British Open	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut.
NT = no tournament

Team appearances

Amateur

• European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Norway): 2007, 2010, 2011
• Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Norway): 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014
• Junior Solheim Cup: (representing Europe): 2009

References

1. "Tonje Daffinrud – Bio". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
2. "Tonje Daffinrud". WAGR. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
3. "Daffinrud nærmer seg verdens amatør-elite" (in Norwegian). Norsk Golf. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
4. "Norgesmesterskapene" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Golf Federation. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
5. "Power Rankings: NM i golf" (in Norwegian). Eurosport. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
6. "2014 Order of Merit". LET Access Series.
7. "Former Pioneer Tonje Daffinrud added to LET". University of Denver Athletics. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
8. "Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule, Orders of Merit 2013-2019" (in Swedish). Svenska Golfförbundet, Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
9. "Order of Merit". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
10. "Tonje Daffinrud legger opp: – Tiden var inne" (in Norwegian). Norsk Golf. Retrieved 6 April 2022.

External links

• Tonje Daffinrud at the Ladies European Tour official site
• Tonje Daffinrud at the WPGA Tour Australasia official site
• Tonje Daffinrud at the ALPG Tour official site (archived)
• Tonje Daffinrud at the Women's World Golf Rankings official site
• Tonje Daffinrud at the Golfdata official site (in Swedish)
• Tonje Daffinrud at Olympics.com
• Tonje Daffinrud at Olympedia