Kristian Krogh Johannessen (born 3 March 1995) is a Norwegian

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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 2012 Eisenhower Trophy with Anders Engell and Kristoffer Ventura, where they finished sixth. He also played on the winning side in the 2010

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, where Continental Europe won. He played in the

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

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

of Belgium by 3 to 2 in the final. He had his international breakthrough at 19 during the qualification for the 2014 Open Championship, 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 Tennessee Volunteers men's golf 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 Swiss Challenge behind Marcel Schneider, and again at the 2020 Northern Ireland Open, two strokes behind American Tyler Koivisto. At the 2021

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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

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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 and European Tour. He won the 2018 U.S. Amateur and reached number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in 2019. Hovland became the first Norw ...

, just ahead of Kristoffer Ventura, thanks to the runner-up finish at the Czech Challenge which earned him 6 OWGR 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

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Continental Europe): 2010 (winners) *

(representing Norway): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 *

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(representing Norway):

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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 ...

Professional *

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(representing Norway):

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Johannessen, Kristian Krogh Norwegian male golfers European Tour golfers Olympic golfers for Norway Golfers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Drammen 1995 births Living people 21st-century Norwegian sportsmen