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John Paul Pultz Pinnerup Axelsen (born 23 January 1998) is a Danish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He was a member of the Danish team that won the
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. He has won four times on the Nordic Golf League as well as winning the Nordic Golf League Order of Merit in
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Amateur career

Axelsen was born in
Holbæk Holbæk () is a town in Denmark and the County seat, seat of Holbæk municipality with a population of 30,903 (1 January 2025). In 2014, Axelsen was the first Danish boy to play in the Junior Ryder Cup, after winning the
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during which he set a new course record at Radcliffe-on-Trent Golf Club and also a new tournament record. In 2016 he was selected again but opted instead to play for Denmark at the
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in Cancun, Mexico. At the age of 16, Axelsen was selected as the youngest-ever male player to play for the Danish National Men's team at the European Amateur Team Championship in Finland. He twice won bronze at the European Team Championship with the Danish team, in 2016 and 2018. Axelsen won the Danish International Amateur Championship three times, in 2014, 2017 and 2018, becoming the first player to win the event three times. In 2016, Axelsen received a wild card to the Made in Denmark event on the European Tour. He made the cut and finished 40th at 282, 2-under-par. Axelsen was a member of the first Danish team to win the World Amateur Team Championship (
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in Ireland together with brothers Rasmus Højgaard and Nicolai Højgaard. During the event he shot the event's lowest round of 8 under par. Axelsen was the joint lowest scorer in the stroke-play qualification for the 2019 Amateur Championship at Portmarnock Golf Club in Ireland. As an amateur he was the number one ranked player European Golf Rankings at under-14, under-16, under-18, under-21 and ranked second in the men's rankings before turning professional. He was also ranked number one in the Danish Golf Union Rankings at under-16, under-18, under-21 and men's level, where he already as 16 was the highest ranked men's player in Denmark Axelsen attended the
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from 2017 to May 2020, leaving before his senior year to turn professional. He was part of both Golfweeks NCAA All-American Team, First team and GCAA's NCAA Division I All-American Team, First team, with the second-best scoring average in University of Florida's program history.


Professional career

Axelsen won the Destination Fyn Pro-Am finale in September 2020 en route to being named Rookie of The Year on the Danish Golf Tour. Axelsen won the Made in HimmerLand Qualifier on the 2021 Nordic Golf League. With the win, Axelsen qualified as no 3 on the 2021 Race to HimmerLand Ranking 2021; earning a place in the Made in HimmerLand on the European Tour. Axelsen won three times on the 2022 Nordic Golf League, including a victory at the MoreGolf Mastercard Tour Final in October. He went on to win the Order of Merit and secure status on the 2023 Challenge Tour. In November, Axelsen entered the European Tour Q School. After six rounds he finished tied-seventh place, ultimately gaining a card for the 2023 European Tour season, bettering his original Challenge Tour status which he gained via the Nordic Golf League.


Awards

Professional *Rookie of the year, Danish Golf Tour: 2020 Amateur *Santandar Consumer Bank Talent Award: 2019 *Den Gyldne Golfbold: 2018 *Bella prisen: 2014 og 2015 *Toms Guld Barre prisen: 2013 College *Golfweeks All-American Team, First team: 2020 *GCAA's NCAA Division I All-America Team, First team: 2020 *All-SEC First Team: 2020 *PING All-Region Honors: 2020 *Haskins Awards final nominated players for men's college player of the year: 2020 *PING All-Region Honors: 2019 *All-SEC Freshman Team: 2018


Amateur wins

*2011 Reid Trophy, English Boys u/13 *2012 Zeagul Trophy *2013 Zeagul Trophy, DGU Elite Tour Herrer Finale *2014 Asserbo Pokalen, Danish International Amateur,
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*2015 DGU Elite Tour Herrer Finale *2016 DGU Elite Tour Finale Herrer & Drenge *2017 Danish International Amateur *2018 Danish International AmateurDanish International Amateur Championship (DIAC) Finals Results 2018
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Professional wins (5)


Nordic Golf League wins (4)


Danish Golf Tour wins (1)


Team appearances

Amateur * European Boys' Team Championship (representing Denmark): 2012, 2013, 2015 * European Amateur Team Championship (representing Denmark):
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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
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2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
* Youth Olympics (representing Denmark):
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
* Junior Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 2014 * Jacques Léglise Trophy (representing Continental Europe): 2015 (tie) *
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(representing Denmark):
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
(winners)


See also

* 2022 European Tour Qualifying School graduates


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Axelsen, John Danish male golfers European Tour golfers Florida Gators men's golfers Sportspeople from Holbæk Municipality 1998 births Living people 21st-century Danish sportsmen