Søren Hansen

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Søren Hansen
Hansen at the 2009 U.S. Open
Personal information
Full nameSøren Hansen
Born (1974-03-21) 21 March 1974 (age 50)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight195 lb (88 kg; 13.9 st)
Sporting nationality Denmark
ResidenceMonte Carlo, Monaco
Career
Turned professional1997
Former tour(s)European Tour
Challenge Tour
Professional wins3
Highest ranking39 (6 July 2008)[1]
Number of wins by tour
European Tour2
Challenge Tour1
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentCUT: 2008, 2009, 2010
PGA ChampionshipT36: 2009
U.S. OpenT6: 2009
The Open ChampionshipT8: 2002, 2009

Søren Hansen (born 21 March 1974) is a Danish professional golfer.[2]

Hansen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He won the 1997 Danish Amateur Stroke Play Championship and turned professional later that year.

Hansen collected his first professional win at the Challenge Tour's 1998 Navision Open Golf Championship in his home country. Since 1999 he has been a member of the European Tour where he has picked up two tournament victories. He won the 2002 Murphy's Irish Open, where he won at the fourth extra hole in a play-off against Richard Bland, Niclas Fasth and Darren Fichardt. He also won the 2007 Mercedes-Benz Championship by a margin of four strokes. His best Order of Merit finish is 8th in 2007. He represented Europe in the 2008 Ryder Cup matches, but he did not win a match, the U.S. was victorious.

In September 2007, he reached the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings and became the top-ranked Danish golfer.[3]

Hansen represented Denmark in the World Cup in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2007.

On 11 August 2009, Hansen was charged with tax evasion by Danish authorities for allegedly claiming residency of Monaco, while actually living in Denmark.[4] On 19 May 2010, Hansen was fined nearly $1.1 million for tax evasion.

Amateur wins

  • 1997 Danish Amateur Stroke Play Championship

Professional wins (3)

European Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runners-up
1 30 Jun 2002 Murphy's Irish Open −14 (69-69-64-68=270) Playoff England Richard Bland, Sweden Niclas Fasth,
South Africa Darren Fichardt
2 16 Sep 2007 Mercedes-Benz Championship −17 (65-68-71-67=271) 4 strokes England Phillip Archer, Scotland Alastair Forsyth

European Tour playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2002 Murphy's Irish Open England Richard Bland, Sweden Niclas Fasth,
South Africa Darren Fichardt 		Won with birdie on fourth extra hole
Bland eliminated by birdie on second hole

Challenge Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runners-up
1 30 Aug 1998 Navision Open Golf Championship −10 (71-69-66=206) Playoff Denmark René Budde, Scotland Euan Little

Challenge Tour playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 1998 Navision Open Golf Championship Denmark René Budde, Scotland Euan Little Won with par on first extra hole

Playoff record

Other playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2001 WGC-World Cup
(with Denmark Thomas Bjørn) 		 New Zealand − Michael Campbell and David Smail,
 South Africa − Retief Goosen and Ernie Els,
 United States − David Duval and Tiger Woods 		South Africa won with par on second extra hole
New Zealand and United States eliminated by birdie on first hole

Results in major championships

Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Masters Tournament CUT CUT
U.S. Open T53 T6
The Open Championship CUT T8 CUT T41 T64 T8
PGA Championship T43 CUT CUT T36
Tournament 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Masters Tournament CUT
U.S. Open CUT CUT
The Open Championship CUT
PGA Championship CUT
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
U.S. Open 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 2
The Open Championship 0 0 0 0 2 2 7 4
PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2
Totals 0 0 0 0 3 3 19 8
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 3 (2009 U.S. Open – 2009 PGA)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2009 U.S. Open – 2009 Open Championship)

Results in The Players Championship

Tournament 2008
The Players Championship T42

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Match Play R64 R64 R64
Championship T39 T70 T13 T18
Invitational T52 T73 T60 75
Champions
  Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

Sources:[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

References

  1. ^ "Week 27 2008 Ending 6 Jul 2008" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Players, Soren Hansen, Overview, Meet Soren". European Tour. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Players, Soren Hansen". Official World Golf Ranking. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  4. ^ Golf star charged with tax evasion
  5. ^ "Hemmaseger i JEM-rysare, Lag-EM Juniorer" [Home victory in exciting European Youth's Team Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 9/1990. September 1990. p. 84. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  6. ^ "EGA Events, Results, European Team Championships, European Youths' Team Championship". European Golf Association. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  7. ^ "European Amateur Team Championship, 1995 - Royal Antwerp GC, Belgium". European Golf Association. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  8. ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 188–190. ISBN 91-86818007. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  9. ^ "EM herrar" [Men's European Championship]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 8. August 1997. pp. 88, 92. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  10. ^ "European Amateur Team Championship Results, 1997 - Portmarnock GC, Ireland". European Golf Association. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  11. ^ "World Cup of Golf - England wins". Golf Today. 22 November 1998. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  12. ^ "EMC World Cup final-round scores". ESPN. 18 November 2001. Retrieved 16 October 2012.