Per Haugsrud (born 20 February 1965) is a

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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

1991 European Tour The 1991 European Tour, titled as the 1991 Volvo Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 20th official season of golf tournaments known as the PGA European Tour. The season was originally made up of 38 tournaments counting for the Order of Merit, a ...

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

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and 1994

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. 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

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at the 1994

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, four strokes behind

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. Haugsrud represented Norway at the

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and 1992 World Cup, along with the

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and

2001 WGC-World Cup The 2001 WGC-World Cup took place 15–18 November at the Taiheiyo Club, Gotemba Course in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was the 47th World Cup and the second as a World Golf Championship event. 24 countries competed and each countr ...

. 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):

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

(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 Southeast A ...

Professional *

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(representing Norway):

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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 frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

2001 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, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

References

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