Øyvind Rojahn (born 8 November 1971) is a Norwegian

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. He was national champion twice and played on the

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, where his best finish was runner-up at the 1995 Air France Cannes Open.

Amateur career

Rojahn hails from

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, south east of

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, and was introduced to golf at the age of six by his father, who was chairman of Borregaard Golf Club. Rojahn became a scratch player by 14, the same year he won the Trophy Topolino in Sanremo, Italy. He also won the Doug Sanders European Junior Championship. He joined the National Team and played for Norway three times in the

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with a best finish of 6th in 1989, and three times in the

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with a best finish of 8th in 1992 in Vancouver, Canada. In 1991, Rojahn won the Norwegian National Golf Championship and received the

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. He spent 18 months on a golf scholarship at the

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Professional career

Rojahn turned professional in 1993, and played on the

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in 1994, where he finished fifth at the Tunisian Challenge and Tessali Open in Italy, to finish the season 62nd in the rankings. In 1995, after finishing third at the

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, he played on the

where he recorded his career best finish of second at the Air France Cannes Open, two strokes behind

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of Switzerland. He finished 91st in the season rankings to retain his card. After the 1996 season, he was relegated to the Challenge Tour where he spent three seasons, before joining the nascent

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in 2000. Rojahn represented Norway at the 1998 World Cup of Golf in New Zealand with Per Haugsrud, where they tied for 23rd alongside South Korea. Rojahn won several Nordic titles, including the 2004 Nordic Golf League tour championship in Denmark. He also won the

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Order of Merit to earn promotion to the

, and spent two season on the tour. In 2005, he won his second Norwegian National Golf Championship, and the Norwegian Golf Tour Order of Merit. He retired from tour after the 2005 season, and has since been working for the Norwegian Golf Federation.

Professional wins (5)

Nordic Golf League wins (3)

Norwegian Golf Tour wins (1)

Other wins (1)

*1991 Norwegian National Golf Championship (as an amateur)

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Norway):

1988 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United State ...

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

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 ...

(representing Norway):

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

European Youths' Team Championship The European Youths' Team Championship was a European amateur team golf championship for men under 22 organized by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1961. It was played every year until 1982, then every second year. It ...

(representing Norway): 1992 *

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(representing Continental Europe): 1989 Professional *

World Cup of Golf The World Cup of Golf is a men's golf tournament contested by teams of two representing their country. Only one team is allowed from each country. The players are selected on the basis of the Official World Golf Ranking, although not all of the fir ...

(representing Norway):

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 ...

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