Guðmundur Ágúst Kristjánsson (born 7 October 1992) is an Icelandic

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and

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player.

Early life and amateur career

Kristjánsson grew up in

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, Iceland. He won the Icelandic Junior Matchplay Championship in 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009, and in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010 he won the Icelandic Junior Strokeplay Championship. He played his first event abroad in 2007 when he was 14, and three years later he won the Duke of York Young Champions Trophy at

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in England. Kristjánsson attended college at

East Tennessee State University East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is a public research university in Johnson City, Tennessee. It was historically part of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee under the Tennessee Board of Regents, but since 2016, ...

between 2012 and 2016, and played golf with the East Tennessee State Buccaneers men's golf team. He roomed with

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and won multiple times, and represented the school in the NCAA National Championship. He turned professional after graduating with a degree in Physics in 2016.

Professional career

Kristjánsson joined the

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in 2017. In 2019 he won three events and earned promotion to the

Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour, currently titled as the HotelPlanner Tour for sponsorship reasons and also sometimes referred to as the European Challenge Tour, is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European To ...

. In his rookie year on the Challenge Tour, he finished fifth at the Northern Ireland Open, and became the highest ranked Icelandic golfer on the

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, as he overtook

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. In 2022, he tied for 3rd at the

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. He also came through the

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to earn a spot on the

for 2023.

Amateur wins

*2005 Icelandic Junior Strokeplay Championship, Icelandic Junior Matchplay Championship *2006 Icelandic Junior Strokeplay Championship *2007 Icelandic Junior Matchplay Championship *2008 Icelandic Junior Strokeplay Championship, Icelandic Junior Matchplay Championship *2009 Icelandic Junior Matchplay Championship *2010 Icelandic Junior Strokeplay Championship, Duke of York Young Champions Trophy *2013 Icelandic Matchplay Championship *2015 Seminole Intercollegiate Source:

Professional wins (3)

Nordic Golf League wins (3)

*Christensen and Kristjánsson agreed to share the 2019 PGA Championship (NGL) after unsafe conditions caused play to halt after three holes of a playoff.

Team appearances

Amateur *

European Amateur Team Championship The European Amateur Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for men organised by the European Golf Association which was introduced in 1959. The championship was played in odd-numbered years from 1959 to 2007 and has been ...

(representing Iceland):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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 Eisenhower Trophy, 1958, it is nam ...

(representing Iceland):

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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References

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