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.
Amateur career As a junior, Daffinrud represented Europe at the 2009 Junior Solheim Cup. 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.
In 2016, she won the Norwegian National Golf Championship and was awarded the Kongepokal.
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.
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. 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 and finished a career-best 18th on the LET Order of Merit.
Plagued by injuries, Daffinrud announced her retirement from tour following the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, just days before her 30th birthday.
Professional wins (5) LET Access Series wins (3) No.DateTournamentWinningscoreTo parMargin ofvictoryRunner(s)-up1 3 Oct 2014 Azores Ladies Open 71-68-73=212 −4 3 strokes Daniela Prorokova2 10 Oct 2014 Grecotel Amirandes Ladies Open 66-67-70=203−10 3 strokes Daisy Nielsen3 29 Aug 2019 Scandic PGA Championship1 66-70-66=202−14 2 strokes Johanna Gustavsson Maja Stark 1Co-sanctioned by the Swedish Golf Tour
Swedish Golf Tour (2) No.DateTournamentWinningscoreTo parMargin ofvictoryRunner(s)-up1 4 Jul 2019 Moss & Rygge Open 70-64-67=201−15 8 strokes Michaela Finn2 29 Aug 2019 Scandic PGA Championship1 66-70-66=202−14 2 strokes Johanna Gustavsson Maja Stark 1Co-sanctioned by the LET Access Series
Other wins 2016 Norwegian National Golf Championship
Results in LPGA majors Results not in chronological order. Tournament 2017 2018 2019 2020ANA InspirationU.S. Women's OpenWomen's PGA ChampionshipThe Evian ChampionshipNTWomen's British OpenCUTCUTCUTCUT
CUT = missed the half-way cut. NT = no tournament
Team appearances Amateur European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Norway): 2007, 2010, 2011 Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Norway): 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 Junior Solheim Cup: (representing Europe): 2009
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