Tonje Daffinrud
Personal information
Full nameTonje Frydenberg Daffinrud
Born (1991-09-19) 19 September 1991
Tønsberg, Norway
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sporting nationality Norway
ResidenceØsterås, Oslo, Norway
Career
CollegeUniversity of Denver
Turned professional2014
Current tour(s)Ladies European Tour (joined 2015)
LET Access Series
Swedish Golf Tour
Professional wins5
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipDNP
Women's PGA C'shipDNP
U.S. Women's OpenDNP
Women's British OpenCUT: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Evian ChampionshipDNP
Achievements and awards
Swedish Golf Tour
Order of Merit		2019

Tonje Frydenberg Daffinrud (born 19 September 1991) is a retired Norwegian professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour between 2015 and 2021, and represented Norway at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[1]

Amateur career

As a junior, Daffinrud represented Europe at the 2009 Junior Solheim Cup.[2] She also represented the Norwegian National Team at the European Ladies' Team Championship and Espirito Santo Trophy. She played collegiate golf with the Denver Pioneers, like her compatriot Espen Kofstad, and graduated from the University of Denver in 2014 with a degree in International Business and Economics.[1][3]

In 2016, she won the Norwegian National Golf Championship and was awarded the Kongepokal.[4][5]

Professional career

Daffinrud joined the LET Access Series midway through the 2014 season and won two tournaments back-to-back in October, the Azores Ladies Open in Azores, Portugal and the Grecotel Amirandes Ladies Open in Crete, Greece. After three further top-five finishes, she finished fifth on the 2014 LETAS Order of Merit and earned LET membership for the 2015 Ladies European Tour.[6][7]

Her rookie season on the LET in 2015 was affected by injury. She played in eight tournaments with a season best T13 at the Lalla Meryem Cup. In 2017, she earned her first top-10 finish with a T6 in the Oates Vic Open and in 2019 posted two top-10s, T10 in La Reserva de Sotogrande Invitational and her career best finish of T4 in the Ladies European Thailand Championship along with Marianne Skarpnord.[1] She qualified for the 2017, 2019 and 2020 Women's British Open as one of the top 25 from the current LET Order of Merit, and was successful in the local qualifiers in 2018.

In 2019, she won the Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit[8] and finished a career-best 18th on the LET Order of Merit.[9]

Plagued by injuries, Daffinrud announced her retirement from tour following the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, just days before her 30th birthday.[10]

Professional wins (5)

LET Access Series wins (3)

No. Date Tournament Winning
score		 To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
13 Oct 2014Azores Ladies Open71-68-73=212−43 strokesCroatia Daniela Prorokova
210 Oct 2014Grecotel Amirandes Ladies Open66-67-70=203−103 strokesDenmark Daisy Nielsen
329 Aug 2019Scandic PGA Championship166-70-66=202−142 strokesSweden Johanna Gustavsson
Sweden Maja Stark

1Co-sanctioned by the Swedish Golf Tour

Swedish Golf Tour (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning
score		 To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
14 Jul 2019Moss & Rygge Open70-64-67=201−158 strokesSweden Michaela Finn
229 Aug 2019Scandic PGA Championship166-70-66=202−142 strokesSweden Johanna Gustavsson
Sweden Maja Stark

1Co-sanctioned by the LET Access Series

Other wins

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament2017201820192020
ANA Inspiration
U.S. Women's Open
Women's PGA Championship
The Evian Championship NT
Women's British Open CUT CUT CUT CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut.
NT = no tournament

Team appearances

Amateur

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tonje Daffinrud – Bio". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Tonje Daffinrud". WAGR. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  3. ↑ "Daffinrud nærmer seg verdens amatør-elite" (in Norwegian). Norsk Golf. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Norgesmesterskapene" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Golf Federation. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "Power Rankings: NM i golf" (in Norwegian). Eurosport. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  6. ↑ "2014 Order of Merit". LET Access Series.
  7. ↑ "Former Pioneer Tonje Daffinrud added to LET". University of Denver Athletics. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  8. ↑ "Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule, Orders of Merit 2013-2019" (in Swedish). Svenska Golfförbundet, Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  9. ↑ "Order of Merit". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  10. ↑ "Tonje Daffinrud legger opp: – Tiden var inne" (in Norwegian). Norsk Golf. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
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