David Andreas Nyfjäll (born 26 January 1999) is a

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professional golfer. As an amateur, he was part of the teams winning the 2017

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, the

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and the

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Amateur career

Nyfjäll won his first international title at the 2013 Finnish Junior International Championship and was a semifinalist at the 2016

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in Scotland. In 2017, he was third at the

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, and in 2018 third at the

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. In 2018, Nyfjäll became the first male player to win both the Swedish Junior Matchplay Championship and the

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in the same year.

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had previously won both tournaments, but not in the same season. Nyfjäll appeared for the National Team at the

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in 2017, finishing fourth. He was a member of the winning Continental European Team in the 2017

against Great Britain and Ireland. He appeared in the

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four times and won the

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event at

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with Albin Bergström,

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, Christoffer Pålsson, Pontus Nyholm and

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. Nyfjäll won the bronze at the

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event in the Netherlands together with Gustav Andersson, Albin Bergström and

. Nyfjäll accepted a scholarship to

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and started playing with the Northwestern Wildcats men's golf team in 2018. He was awarded

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Freshman of the Year after two individual titles and a 71.72 stroke average, the lowest average from any first-year in program history, including

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. He played in the 2019

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on the

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and made the cut. Nyfjäll advanced to the round of 16 at the 2021

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, after triumphing in a 12-man playoff for the last match play spot. Nyfjäll won the 2022 Big Ten Championship by firing a 1-under 215 at the Pete Dye Course at

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. He was the only golfer in the 72-man field to finish the weekend under par, becoming Northwestern's first medalist at the event since

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in 2010.

Professional career

Nyfjäll earned a spot in the 2023 U.S. Open at the qualifier in

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, on 5 June and announced he would make his professional debut at the U.S. Open.

Amateur wins

*2013 Finnish Junior International Championship Boys 14, Skandia Tour Regional #3 Gästrike-Hälsinge *2014 Skandia Cup Riksfinal P15 *2015 Vassunda Junior Open *2016 Callaway Cup *2017 Swedish Junior Matchplay Championship, Viksjö Junior Open, Salem Junior Open, Junior Masters Invitational - Final *2018 Swedish Junior Matchplay Championship,

, GolfTech Tour 1, Chatham Hills Collegiate, UNCG Grandover Collegiate *2021 GCAA Summers Series - Indiana *2022 Big Ten Championship Sources:

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the halfway cut

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Continental Europe): 2017 (winners) *

(representing Sweden): 2017 *

(representing Sweden):

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(winners),

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(representing the International Team):

(winners) Source:

References

External links

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