Kristian Krogh Johannessen (born 3 March 1995) is a

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who has played on the

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and the

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. He played in the

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and won the 2022 Italian Challenge Open.

Amateur career

Johannessen played for the national team and represented Norway at the

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with Anders Engell and

Kristoffer Ventura Kristoffer Ventura (born 24 February 1995) is a Norwegian professional golfer who plays on the Korn Ferry Tour. Amateur career Born in Puebla, Mexico to a Mexican father and Norwegian mother, Ventura spent his first years in Mexico before movi ...

, where they finished sixth. He also played on the winning side in the 2010

Jacques Léglise Trophy The Jacques Léglise Trophy is an annual amateur boys' team golf competition between Great Britain & Ireland and the Continent of Europe. It was first played in 1977, as a one-day match before the Boys Amateur Championship, but since 1996 it has b ...

, where Continental Europe won. He played in the

European Boys' Team Championship The European Boys' Team Championship (Jean-Louis Dupont Trophy) is a European amateur team golf championship for men up to 18 organized by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1980 and it has been played annually since. S ...

three times and won silver in 2010, after he was beaten by

Thomas Pieters Thomas Pieters (born 27 January 1992) is a Belgium, Belgian professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour. Early life Pieters was born in Geel, Belgium in 1992. He started playing golf at the age of five, learning the game at the ...

of Belgium by 3 to 2 in the final. He had his international breakthrough at 19 during the qualification for the

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, where he lowered the course record at

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near

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by four strokes, from 67 to 63 (eight under par). In January 2015 Johannessen was slated to move to the U.S. to play college golf with the

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team at

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, but decided to turn professional.

Professional career

Johannessen joined the 2015 Nordic Golf League, where he secured his first professional victory at the 2015 Holtsmark Open on home soil, following a playoff with Petter Bocian of Sweden. He finished the season fourth in the order of merit to earn promotion to the

. On the Challenge Tour he was runner-up at the 2018

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behind Marcel Schneider, and again at the 2020 Northern Ireland Open, two strokes behind American Tyler Koivisto. At the 2021

D+D Real Czech Challenge The D+D Real Czech Challenge is a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour played in the Czech Republic. From 2012 to 2018, and from 2021 it was played at the Golf&Spa Kunětická Hora in Dříteč. It moved to the Kaskáda Golf Resort, near Kuřim ...

he lost a three-way playoff to Santiago Tarrío of Spain for his third runner-up finish. He was one of the 27 players who earned 2019

cards through Q School in 2018. He represented Norway at the

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. In June 2021 he qualified for the

in Tokyo together with

Viktor Hovland Viktor Hovland (born 18 September 1997) is a Norwegian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2018 U.S. Amateur and then became the first Norwegian to win on the PGA Tour (at the 2020 Puerto Rico Open) and on the European Tou ...

, just ahead of

, thanks to the runner-up finish at the Czech Challenge which earned him 6

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points and a career-high world rank of 289.

Amateur wins

*2011 Canadian International Junior Challenge *2012 Norgesmesterskapet Junior (Titleist Tour), Titleist Tour 7 *2013 Team Norway Junior Tour Finale *2014 Titleist Tour 6 Source:

Professional wins (5)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Challenge Tour playoff record (1–1)

Nordic Golf League wins (3)

Other wins (1)

*2020

Norwegian National Golf Championship The Norwegian National Golf Championship is an annual golf tournament, played at various locations throughout Norway. It is organized by the Norwegian Golf Federation and was first played in 1956. The championship has been played as a 72-hole strok ...

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Continental Europe): 2010 (winners) *

(representing Norway): 2010, 2011, 2012 *

Eisenhower Trophy The Eisenhower Trophy (World Men's Amateur Team Championships) is the biennial World Amateur Team Championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. Since the tournament was first played in 1958, it is named after Dwight D. Eisen ...

(representing Norway):

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2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

Professional *

European Championships The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...

(representing Norway):

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

References

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