Celine Borge (born 5 August 1998) is a Norwegian

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who joined the

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in 2018, and the LPGA Tour in 2023. She won the 2022 Tuscaloosa Toyota Classic on the Epson Tour.

Amateur career

Borge played for the National Team and appeared in several European Team Championships. She won the Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship in 2016, four strokes ahead of Cloe Frankish and Linn Grant in joint second.

Professional career

In 2017, still a teenager, Borge finished in the top-25 at the 2017 Lalla Aicha Tour School, to earn

membership for 2018. She finished 53rd in the Order of Merit and 5th in the Rookie of the Year rankings. Borge joined the

Symetra Tour The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour ...

in 2019, where she made 10 cuts in 21 events and recorded a season-best T9 at The CDPHP Open. She won the 2020

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and was awarded the ''Kongepokal''. She finished third at the 2021 Island Resort Championship. In 2022, Borge won the Tuscaloosa Toyota Classic and was runner-up at the Guardian Championship to end the season sixth on the Epson Tour money list, earning LPGA Tour membership for the 2023. On her LPGA Tour debut at the 2023

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, Borge was in contention after a 9-under 63 in the third round, and finished tied 14th. Borge opened with two rounds of 69 to sit at tied 2nd at the halfway point of the 2023 Women's PGA Championship, before finishing the tournament in tied 39th after rounds of 74 and 75. Her best finish in a LPGA Tour event is third place at the

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, teamed with

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, in July 2023.

Amateur wins

*2014 Norgescupfinale *2015 Norgescupfinale *2016 Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship, Norgescup 2, Titleist Tour 4, Titleist Tour 7 Source:

Professional wins (2)

Epson Tour wins (1)

Other wins (1)

*2020

Team appearances

Amateur *

Duke of York Young Champions Trophy The Duke of York Young Champions Trophy was an international golf tournament for boys and girls who were either the current holders of their under-18 National Championship or had won another major golfing event in the preceding twelve months. Fir ...

: (representing Norway): 2015, 2016 * World Junior Girls Championship: (representing Norway): 2016 *

European Girls' Team Championship The European Girls' Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for women up to 18 organised by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1991. It was played in odd-numbered years from 1991 to 1999 and has bee ...

: (representing Norway): 2015, 2016 *

European Ladies' Team Championship The European Ladies' Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for women organised by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1959. It was played in odd-numbered years from 1959 to 2007 and has been pla ...

: (representing Norway):

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