Vincent Norrman

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Vincent Norrman
Personal information
Full nameVincent Oliver Norrman
Born (1997-12-24) 24 December 1997 (age 24)
Stockholm, Sweden
Sporting nationality Sweden
ResidenceTyresö, Stockholm, Sweden
Career
CollegeGeorgia Southwestern State
Florida State University
Turned professional2021
Current tour(s)European Tour
Korn Ferry Tour
Former tour(s)Nordic Golf League

Vincent Oliver Norrman (born 24 December 1997) is a Swedish professional golfer. He was part of the Swedish team winning the 2019 European Amateur Team Championship.

Early life[]

Norrman was born on Christmas eve and grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, with his parents Eva and Claes and his sister Vendela. He has represented Haninge Golf Club through his career and been a club mate of tournament professionals and European Tour winners Alex Norén and Kristoffer Broberg.[1]

Amateur career[]

He played on the Georgia Southwestern State Hurricanes golf team from 2016 to 2020 and for Florida State Seminoles in 2021, where he was named the Peach Belt Conference Men's Golf Player of the Year.[2][3]

Norrman was part of the Swedish team winning the 2019 European Amateur Team Championship on home soil at Ljunghusen Golf Club in Sweden.[4] The year after, he was again part of the Swedish team, this time at a reduced European Amateur Team Championship, with only four players in each team. Team Sweden earned the silver medal after losing in the final 2–1 against Germany, despite Norrman winning his match. On both occasions, Norrman finished tied seventh in the individual competition.[5][6][7]

He was part of the winning International Team at the 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup held at Bay Hill Club, Florida, moved from July to December due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

His last tournament as an amateur was the first edition of the European Tour event Scandinavian Mixed, played at Vallda Golf & Country Club in Sweden, where he finished tied 12th among the men.

His highest World Amateur Golf Ranking was 4th.[3]

Professional career[]

Norrman turned professional in June 2021, became an affiliate member of the European Tour and was invited to play his first tournament as a professional at the BMW International Open at Golf Club München Eichenried in Munich, Germany, 24–27 June, where he finished tied fifth, earning €38,122. He scored a hole-in-one on a par-4 hole in the third round. A hole-in-one scored on the par-3 17th hole, would have won Norrman a car from the tournament sponsor, but he only received a bottle of champagne.[8] It was the second hole-in-one on a par-4 on the 2021 European Tour.[9] With his achievement in the tournament, Norrman advanced from 1,016th to 658th on the Official World Golf Ranking[10] and qualified for next week's tournament, the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, were he made the cut. Two weeks later, at the Cazoo Open at the Celtic Manor Resort, Wales, Norrman tied the first round lead with a 7-under-par score of 64[11] and finished the tournament tied 10th.

In November 2021, he finished tied second at the Korn Ferry Tour Final Stage of Q-School to secure a minimum of twelve starts for the 2022 season.[12]

Amateur wins[]

  • 2018 Hurricane Invitational
  • 2019 Hurricane Invitational, Aflac-Cougar Invitational, NSU Shark Invitational, Queens University Invitational (tied with Leo Johansson)
  • 2020 Newberry College Invitational, Southeastern Collegiate
  • 2021 Timuquana Collegiate

Source:[3]

Team appearances[]

Amateur

Sources:[13][14][7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Vincent Norrman Player Profile". Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Vincent Norrman Player Profile". Florida State Seminoles. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Vincent Norrman". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Sweden, France, and Denmark claim 2019 European Team Championship Titles". European Golf Association. 13 July 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Germany To Face Sweden In The Final Of The 2020 European Amateur Team Championship". European Golf Association. 11 September 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Germany Wins The European Amateur Team Championship For The First Time". European Golf Association. 14 September 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  7. ^ a b "European Amateur Team Championship Results, 2020 - Hilversumsche Golf Club, Netherlands". European Golf Association. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  8. ^ Jackson, Keith (26 June 2021). "Vincent Norrman celebrates first event as a professional with hole-in-one albatross at BMW International Open". SkySports.
  9. ^ "Norrman makes stunning albatross ace in Germany". European Tour. 26 June 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Vincent Norrman". Official World Golf Ranking. 26 June 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Norrman and Elvira share lead in Wales". European Tour. 22 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Meet The 40: Zack Fischer wins Final Stage as guaranteed starts are awarded". PGA Tour. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  13. ^ "Vincent Norrman". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  14. ^ "European Amateur Team Championship Results, 2019 - Ljunghusen GC, Sweden". European Golf Association. Retrieved 24 June 2021.

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