Per Haugsrud (born 20 February 1965) is a Norwegian

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and the first Norwegian to play on the

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Amateur career

Haugsrud began to play golf at the nine hole course in

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when he was only seven years old. He was a scratch player at age 15. He won two Norwegian Amateur titles and represented Norway in the 1984

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, the World Amateur Golf Team Championships.

Professional career

Haugsrud tried for

card six times and succeeded on three occasions, starting with the

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season, playing a total of 157 European Tour tournaments 1987–2001 collecting €416,939 in winnings. He was runner-up at the 1990

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and also played 27

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tournaments 1991–1995 where he won the 1993 SM Matchplay and 1994 SIAB Open. In addition, he played over a dozen tournaments on the

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1993–1995, with a best finish of fifth in the 1993 Thailand Open. Regaining his European Tour card, he retained it between 1996 and 1998, before suffering a finger injury in 1999 and was granted a medical exemption in 2000. He recorded 4 top-10 finishes including a tie for fourth at the 1997 Volvo German Open and a tie for third along with

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and Mark Davis at the 1994 Scandinavian Masters, four strokes behind

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. Haugsrud represented Norway at the

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and 1992 World Cup, along with the 1998 World Cup of Golf and 2001 WGC-World Cup. He peaked at around 300 on the

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in 1997. He was the second Norwegian ever to qualify for

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after Tore Sviland. Starting in 2015 Haugsrud teamed up with

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to provide commentary for the

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broadcast on

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Norway.

Amateur wins

*1983 Norwegian Amateur Championship *1986 Norwegian Amateur Championship

Professional wins (3)

Challenge Tour wins (2)

Swedish Golf Tour wins (1)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the halfway cut
''Note: Haugsrud only played in The Open Championship.''

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing Norway):

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(representing Norway):

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

Professional *

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(representing Norway):

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Haugsrud, Per Norwegian male golfers European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Sarpsborg 1965 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen