Alexander Norén

Alexander Norén
Personal information
Full name	Alexander Norén
Born	(1982-07-12) 12 July 1982 (age 29) Stockholm, Sweden
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Nationality	Sweden
Residence	Up, Sweden
Career
College	Oklahoma State University
Turned professional	2005
Current tour(s)	European Tour
Professional wins	4
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	3
Challenge Tour	1
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
U.S. Open	T51: 2011
The Open Championship	T19: 2008
PGA Championship	T34: 2011

Alexander Norén (born 12 July 1982) is a Swedish professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour.

Norén was born in Stockholm. He attended Oklahoma State University in the United States before turning professional in 2005.

Norén gained a place on Europe's second tier Challenge Tour by reaching the final stage of the European Tour qualifying school at the end of 2005. In his rookie season he claimed his maiden professional victory at the Rolex Trophy, and ended the year in 3rd place on the Challenge Tour Rankings to graduate to the elite European Tour for 2007.

Norén had a solid rookie season on the European Tour in 2007 and improved on that the following year to finish in 31st place on the Order of Merit. He made the cut at the 2008 Open Championship and was in the top 10 going into day 3, before eventually finishing in a tie for 19th place.

Norén won his first event on the European Tour in September 2009 at the Omega European Masters, where he finished 20 under par to win by two strokes over Bradley Dredge.^[1] Norén finished the season ranked 25th on the Race To Dubai.

In June 2011, Norén won his second European Tour title at the Saab Wales Open played at The Celtic Manor Resort. He won by two strokes from Grégory Bourdy and Anders Hansen finishing at 9 under par.^[2] This victory secured Norén of a place in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in August. The following month, Norén won his third European Tour title at the Nordea Masters in his home country of Sweden. He won from wire-to-wire, the first time in his career he had achieved this feat, and opened up an eleven stroke margin after the third round. Despite difficult conditions in the wind on the final day, Norén finished seven strokes ahead of Richard Finch.^[3] Norén finished the season ranked 14th on the Race To Dubai.

Professional wins (4)

European Tour wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s)-up
1	6 Sep 2009	Omega European Masters	-20 (65–70–63–66=264)	2 strokes	Bradley Dredge
2	5 Jun 2011	Saab Wales Open	-9 (67–67–71–70=275)	2 strokes	Grégory Bourdy, Anders Hansen
3	24 Jul 2011	Nordea Masters	-15 (67–66–63–77=273)	7 strokes	Richard Finch

Challenge Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runners-up
1	20 Aug 2006	Rolex Trophy	-22 (66–67–62–71=266)	3 strokes	Johan Axgren, Gareth Davies

Results in major championships

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

Professional

• Royal Trophy (representing Europe): 2010 (winners)
• Seve Trophy (representing Continental Europe): 2011
• World Cup (representing Sweden): 2011

References

External links

• Official website
• Alexander Norén at the European Tour official site
• Alexander Norén at the Official World Golf Ranking official site