Career highlights

• Teamed with Soren Kjeldsen to win the ISPS HANDA World Cup of Golf for Denmark's first-ever win at the 58th edition of the historic event at Kingston Heath Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia, in late-November. The Danish team finished at 20 under par for the week, highlighted by a second-round, foursomes/best-ball 12-under-par 60.
• 2016: European Tour 2016 campaign highlighted by his victory at the Turkish Airlines Open and runner-up finishes at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters and BMW International Open
• Posted a four-day total of 12-under 276 to finish T2 at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, two strokes behind champion Branden Grace. Grabbed a share of the lead midway through the front nine, but a bogey on the eighth hole followed by nine straight pars ended his chance for victory
• Came back the following week with a T8 finish at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic, highlighted by a second-round 8-under 64. At 14-under 274, finished five strokes behind champion Danny Willett
• Turned in an impressive European Tour stretch, with three top-10 finishes in five starts, including a T8 at the Shenzhen International, T10 at the Irish Open and T2 at the BMW International Open (finishing three strokes behind champion Henrik Stenson)
• Represented Denmark when golf returned to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Finished T30 in 60-player field
• Next top-10 finish came 11 starts after the runner-up finish at the BMW International Open, winning the Turkish Airlines Open by three strokes over David Horsey and Haotong Li. Week highlighted by a second-round 62, which was followed by a third-round 69 for an insurmountable seven-stroke lead heading into the final round. With the victory, became the second Dane (Thomas Bjorn) to win a European Tour event for three consecutive European Tour seasons
• Season included five starts on the PGA TOUR, with T19 at the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions his best finish. Missed the cut in both major championship starts at The Open Championship and PGA Championship.2015: Won his third career European Tour title in his 130th European Tour event at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in October in Scotland. Finished the week at 18-under par, two strokes clear of Brooks Koepka and Chris Stroud. on his third career European Tour title in his 130th European Tour event at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in October in Scotland. Finished the week at 18-under par, two strokes clear of Brooks Koepka and Chris Stroud. 2014: Played in 14 PGA TOUR events, making six cuts. Lone top-10 came at the Memorial Tournament in June, a T8. Highlight of the year was his October victory at the IPS Handa Perth International on the PGA TOUR of Australasia. Rolled to a three-shot victory over Victor Dubuisson after opening 64-69-67 and then turning in a steady 71 on the final day
• Added three top-10s on the European Tour, with two coming on back-to-back weeks in the Middle East. Shot three 68s and a second-round 69 at The Commercial Bank Qatar Masters to T3
• The following week, sandwiched rounds of 71 around second- and third-round 68-65 to T5 at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic
• Final top-10 was a T7 at the Made in Denmark in August. 2013: Made six of 11 cuts on TOUR, with two top-10s. Earned enough non-member FedExCup points during the season to achieve Special Temporary Membership. Parlayed that into a top-125 finish on the non-member FedExCup points list to earn his TOUR card for the 2013-2014 season
• A year after recording a T8 at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship, he came within a stroke of winning the event at Abu Dhabi GC. Entered the final round tied for second, two strokes behind leader Justin Rose. Had a double bogey on the sixth hole Sunday but rallied with three back-nine birdies, including a birdie at the 17th hole. Missed a birdie putt on the 72nd hole that would have forced a playoff with eventual winner Jamie Donaldson
• Opened 67-66-67 at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic but could only come up with a final-round 71 to T3, five shots behind winner Stephen Gallacher
• Finished seventh at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in his first career start at Bay Hill
• On the day before the start of the Shell Houston Open, was in a four-car crash on the freeway and suffered whiplash. Played in the first round, shot an 82 and withdrew due to back pain and headaches
• Finished T6 at the Masters Tournament in his first career start at Augusta National. It was his second top-10 in a major in four career starts (also T9 at the 2012 Open Championship)
• Shot four rounds in the 60s at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles in late-August to finish solo ninth in Scotland
• Only other made cut in a major championship came at the PGA Championship (T40 after missing the cut at the U.S. Open and The Open Championship).2012: Opened his season with a T8 at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship
• Shot weekend rounds of 70 at the Avantha Masters to finish T6 in New Delhi, India, four strokes behind winner Jbe Kruger
• Won on the European Tour for the first time when he shot four rounds in the 60s at the Sicilian Open. Was one of seven players a stroke off the 36-hole lead held by six players. Shot a third-round 67 to take a three-stroke lead into the final round and then held off Chris Wood, who fired a tournament-record 64, to win by one stroke. The victory moved him to No. 100 in the Official World Golf Ranking, the first time he has cracked the top 100 on the list
• Was solo fifth at the Open de Espana in early May in Spain, with back-to-back 70s on the weekend at Real Club de Golf de Sevilla
• One year after missing the cut in his Open Championship debut, finished T9 at Royal Lytham & St Annes
• A week later, looked poised to win his second European Tour event. Opened 64-68-68 at the Lyoness Open in Atzenbrugg, Austria. Stumbled to a final-round, 2-over 74 at Diamond CC to T4
• Opened the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship with a 9-under 63 at Kingsbarn GL at the three-course event on the European Tour. Still trailed Branden Grace by three shots after 18 holes. Finished with four rounds in the 60s but fell two shots short of Grace, finishing solo second.2011: A year after recording two second-place showings, he had three more close calls, finishing as runner-up at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in December 2010, at the BMW Italian Open in June and at the Alstom Open de France in July. At the Alfred Dunhill Championship, at Leopard Creek CC in South Africa, his opening 54-hole score was at 3-under, then he shot a 6-under 66 Sunday to put pressure on Pablo Martin before finally finishing two strokes back
• In Italy, at Royal Park I Roveri, he shot a final-round 62 (nine birdies and an eagle along with a par-5 bogey-6). He began the day tied for 20th, six strokes behind eventual winner Robert Rock and ended up losing by a stroke
• A month later, at Le Golf National in Paris, he opened with a 66 then followed with rounds of 71-71-70 only to fall a stroke behind winner Thomas Levet
• Only other top-10 outside his three runner-up finishes was a ninth-place showing at the South African Open in December 2010
• Was a surprise member of the Denmark OMEGA Mission Hills World Cup team. After Thomas Bjiorn withdrew because of injury, Anders Hansen selected him as his teammate, where the duo T13
• In his PGA TOUR debut, he missed the cut at The Open Championship. 2010: Broke through with his first professional victory, winning The Princess on the European Challenge Tour, finishing third on the Challenge Tour rankings and earning his European Tour playing privileges. Was three strokes ahead entering the final round of The Princess and shot a 1-under 70 to edge Peter Gustafsson at Bastad GC in Bastad, Sweden, by two strokes
• Contended for a second consecutive week, in France, at the Allianz Golf Open de Lyon before settling for a T3
• Held a four-stroke lead over Tommy Fleetwood going into Sunday's final round at the Challenge Tour's English Challenge in Colchester, Essex, England. A final-round, 2-over 74 dropped him into a solo-fourth finish, two back of Daniel Gaunt
• In May, at the Mugello Tuscany Open, also on the Challenge Tour, he made it into a playoff with Floris De Vries before falling on the first extra hole
• His final runner-up finish of the year came in Russia, at the M2M Russian Challenge Cup, tied with Fleetwood and Matt Ford, a stroke behind Carlos Del Moral, in Moscow. 2009: Had his first European Tour top-10, a T4 at the SAS Masters. Opened 73-72-75 before a final-round 68 moved him up the leaderboard
• His other top-10 finish came on the European Challenge Tour, a T5 at the SK Golf Challenge, two strokes behind winner Nicolas Colsaerts. 2008: Made his professional debut at the Ecco Tour Championship in August on the European Challenge Tour. Was T53
• A month later, in his only other start on the season, he was T34 at The Dubliner Challenge.