David Andreas Nyfjäll (born 26 January 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer. As an amateur, he was part of the teams winning the 2017

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, the 2019 European Amateur Team Championship and the 2019 Arnold Palmer Cup.

Amateur career

Nyfjäll won his first international title at the 2013 Finnish Junior International Championship and was a semi-finalist at the 2016 Boys Amateur Championship at

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in Scotland. In 2017, he finished third at the German Boys Open, and in 2018 third at the Lytham Trophy. In 2018, Nyfjäll became the first male player to win both the Swedish Junior Matchplay Championship and the Swedish Junior Strokeplay Championship in the same year. Jonas Blixt 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 Ljunghusen Golf Club 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

. He played in the 2019 Scandinavian Invitation 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.

College career

Nyfjäll accepted a scholarship to

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and played with the Northwestern Wildcats men's golf team between 2018 and 2023. He was named

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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 helped secure the 2019 Arnold Palmer Cup for the international team. In 2022, Nyfjäll won the Big Ten Championship, the only golfer in the 72-man field to finish the weekend under par, becoming Northwestern's first medalist at the event since David Lipsky in 2010. As a graduating senior, Nyfjäll won the 2023 Byron Nelson Award from the Golf Coaches Association of America, earning him a start at the 2024 CJ Cup Byron Nelson.

Professional career

Nyfjäll turned professional mid-2023 after he earned a spot in the 2023 U.S. Open at the qualifier in

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, and made his professional debut at the U.S Open at

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, where he missed the cut after rounds of 73 and 74. He spent the rest of the season on the

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, where his best finish was a tie for 6th at the Indoor Golf Group Challenge.

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

Professional wins (1)

Nordic Golf League wins (1)

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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