prowins birth_date eurowins residence usopen image name caption fullname pga chalwins birth_place height masters open tour weight yearpro article_title
5 17 may 1975 4 ascot , berkshire , england t33 : 2010 23 bmw international open bei muenchen soren kjeldsen.jpg søren kjeldsen kjeldsen at the 2011 bmw international open søren kjeldsen t6 : 2009 1 aalborg , denmark 1.70 0 t30 : 2010 t33 : 2010 european tour 65 kg lb st on 1995 søren kjeldsen

søren kjeldsen

søren kjeldsen -lrb- born 17 may 1975 -rrb- is a danish golfer who plays on the european tour .
kjeldsen turned professional in 1995 .
kjeldsen 's success on the second tier challenge tour in 1997 , which included his first victory as a professional in the volvo finnish open , earned him membership for the main european tour for 1998 .
he has performed steadily at this level and won his first european tour title at the 2003 diageo championship at gleneagles .
his second european tour win came at the 2008 volvo masters at valderrama golf club in andalucia , spain , where he won by 2 strokes over martin kaymer and anthony wall .
this was the final staging of the volvo masters because as part of the race to dubai , introduced in 2009 , the european tour season now concludes at the dubai world championship .
he ended the year 10th on the order of merit , which to date is still his best year-end ranking .
kjeldsen won his third european tour event and second consecutive event on spanish soil with a three stroke victory over david drysdale at the 2009 open de andalucia in marbella , andalusia , spain .
also in 2009 , he finished third at the bmw pga championship , fourth at the scottish open , sixth at the pga championship and seventh at the wgc-ca championship .
he finished second at the 2010 andalucía masters and the 2011 volvo china open .
in 2012 he finished second at the open de españa and fifth at the scottish open .
in may 2015 , kjeldsen ended a six year drought and won his fourth european tour title at the dubai duty free irish open .
on a very windy final day , kjeldsen held a two stroke lead but shot a 76 five over par round to fall into a three man playoff with eddie pepperell and bernd wiesberger .
on the first extra hole , kjeldsen found the par five 18th green in two and after pepperell and wiesberger could not get up and down for their birdies , he two putted from 30 feet for the victory .
kjeldsen maintained his 100 % record of winning when holding the 54 hole lead , which now stands at 4-for-4 .
the next week he finished second at the nordea masters .
kjeldsen represented denmark in the eisenhower trophy in 1994 and at the world cup in 1998 , 1999 , 2003 and 2004 .
he has featured in the top 50 of the official world golf ranking .
