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Thomas Bjørn (born 18 February 1971) is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won fifteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1997 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team. Bjørn is remembered for his collapse at Royal St. George's during the 2003 Open Championship, when he led by two strokes with three holes to play, but took three attempts to get out of a greenside bunker on the par three 16th, handing the tournament to Ben Curtis.
Bjørn started his career playing on the Challenge Tour from 1993 to 1995. In 1995 he won four tournaments on the Challenge Tour to earn his card for his debut year on the European Tour in 1996. Bjørn made his breakthrough immediately winning his maiden tour title in his debut season at the Loch Lomond World Invitational. He became the first golfer from Denmark to win a tournament on the European Tour. He finished the 1996 season placed tenth on the Order of Merit. The follow up season in 1997 was steady with a number of top ten finishes without a win, however Bjørn did not have long to wait until his next win arrived. He won early in the 1998 season in Perth, Australia taking the Heineken Classic for his second European Tour title. Despite an over par final round of 74, Bjørn won by a single stroke from Ian Woosnam. A couple months later after a five week break from competitive golf, Bjørn won for the second time in 1998 at the Peugeot Open de Espana after a final round 66 took him to 21 under and one stroke ahead of the chasing pack. He later said “I didn’t really expect this after taking five weeks off, but when your confidence has gone like mine did after winning in Perth, it just shows it’s best to take a break and regroup." After his two wins he finished the year 6th on the Order of Merit.
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The PGA European Tour is an organisation which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Seniors Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour. Its headquarters are at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England. The European Tour is the primary golf tour in Europe. The European Tour was established by the British-based Professional Golfers' Association, and responsibility was transferred to an independent PGA European Tour organisation in 1984. Most events on the PGA European Tour's three tours are held in Europe, but in recent years an increasing number have been held in other parts of the world outside of Europe; in 2015 a majority of the ranking events on the European Tour were held outside Europe, though this included both Majors and World Golf Championship events that are ranking events for multiple tours.
The PGA European Tour is a golfer-controlled organisation whose primary purpose is to maximise the income of tournament golfers. It is a company limited by guarantee and is run by a professional staff but controlled by its playing members via a board of directors composed of 12 elected past and present tour players and a tournament committee of 14 current players. The chairman of the board is David Williams who replaced Neil Coles who had held the post for 38 years. The chairman of the tournament committee is Thomas Bjørn.
The term Team Europe is used in a number of sports to designate a unified team of European countries in several sports competitions. Whilst neither the European Union nor the Council of Europe are countries themselves, European teams have been formed to compete in several international competitions. The most famous of these is the Ryder Cup in golf which sees a European team play against a team from the USA in even-numbered years. In football, a selection of European footballers play occasionally for charity games and anniversary games in the Europe XI team.
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The European Tour's youngest (and cheekiest) interviewer puts some Tough questions to fifteen-time winner Thomas Bjorn. It's Billy Vs Thomas in this episode of Little Interviews. Keep up to date with the European Tour at: Website: www.europeantour.com Facebook: The European Tour Twitter: @EuropeanTour
►Subscribe to Gillette World Sport: http://bit.ly/1RgJOWJ With golf appearing at the Olympics for the first time in Rio this year, World Sport joins professional golfer and putting expert Thomas Bjørn, for a masterclass in short game technique. ►Trackman Technology in Golf: http://bit.ly/1S7OPwM ►Check out the best of World Sport: http://bit.ly/1Zt8mO3 Get more World Sport Facebook: http://bit.ly/1RgNGXF Twitter: http://bit.ly/1UkS36U Instagram: http://bit.ly/1QYH5w6
A Hyno Designs Production: The Thomas Bjørn Affair Music by: Run-DMC
Flashback to our chat with recently appointed Ryder Cup Team Europe Captain, Thomas Bjørn, back in 2014 in the wake of Team Europe's victory at Gleneagles, which was masterminded by then Captain Paul McGinley
Ahead of the 2016 Aberdeen Asset Management Paul Lawrie Match Play at Archerfield Links, Thomas Bjørn along with Edoardo Molinari and Paul Lawrie himself attempted a closest to hole challenge. What happened next has to be seen to be believed! Keep up to date with the European Tour at: Website: www.europeantour.com Facebook: The European Tour Twitter: @EuropeanTour
Intervju med Thomas Björn inför Nordea Masters 2015
Ben Curtis takes the title as Thomas Bjorn's hopes vanish in a bunker. Keep in touch with us! Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/The-Open-Championship/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheOpen Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theopen/
One of the best wedge games in the world...
Højdepunkter fra 4. runde af Qatar Masters 2011 hvor Thomas Bjørn vandt - speaket af Michael Lermark, 6. februar 2011
The European Tour's youngest (and cheekiest) interviewer puts some Tough questions to fifteen-time winner Thomas Bjorn. It's Billy Vs Thomas in this episode of Little Interviews. Keep up to date with the European Tour at: Website: www.europeantour.com Facebook: The European Tour Twitter: @EuropeanTour
Interview med Thomas Bjørn efter 1. runde af The Open 2010, 15. juli 2010
We sit down for a Big Interview with 1997, 2002, and 2014 European Ryder Cup team member Thomas Bjorn Subscribe for more: http://ow.ly/lJYwy About Golfing World GW gets you inside the ropes; watch exclusive features with the pros from all the major golf tours worldwide. Find out more about the world's best courses in our destination reviews and improve your game with our instruction videos from professional coaches and players. Channel updated daily. • YouTube Channel - http://www.youtube.com/golf • Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/GolfingWorld • Twitter: http://twitter.com/Golfingworldtv • Instagram: http://instagram.com/golfingworld Leave us a comment below!
Flashback to our chat with recently appointed Ryder Cup Team Europe Captain, Thomas Bjørn, back in 2014 in the wake of Team Europe's victory at Gleneagles, which was masterminded by then Captain Paul McGinley
A Hyno Designs Production: The Thomas Bjørn Affair Music by: Run-DMC
ECCO Tour interview med Thomas Bjørn ved ECCO Tour Championship
Jesper Kjærbye interviewer Thomas Bjørn under Alstom Open de France 2011, 30. juni 2011.
Del af interview i Teetime Magasindet # 2, www.teetimemagasinet.dk
The European Tour's youngest (and cheekiest) interviewer puts some Tough questions to fifteen-time winner Thomas Bjorn. It's Billy Vs Thomas in this episode of Little Interviews. Keep up to date with the European Tour at: Website: www.europeantour.com Facebook: The European Tour Twitter: @EuropeanTour
►Subscribe to Gillette World Sport: http://bit.ly/1RgJOWJ With golf appearing at the Olympics for the first time in Rio this year, World Sport joins professional golfer and putting expert Thomas Bjørn, for a masterclass in short game technique. ►Trackman Technology in Golf: http://bit.ly/1S7OPwM ►Check out the best of World Sport: http://bit.ly/1Zt8mO3 Get more World Sport Facebook: http://bit.ly/1RgNGXF Twitter: http://bit.ly/1UkS36U Instagram: http://bit.ly/1QYH5w6
A Hyno Designs Production: The Thomas Bjørn Affair Music by: Run-DMC
Flashback to our chat with recently appointed Ryder Cup Team Europe Captain, Thomas Bjørn, back in 2014 in the wake of Team Europe's victory at Gleneagles, which was masterminded by then Captain Paul McGinley
Ahead of the 2016 Aberdeen Asset Management Paul Lawrie Match Play at Archerfield Links, Thomas Bjørn along with Edoardo Molinari and Paul Lawrie himself attempted a closest to hole challenge. What happened next has to be seen to be believed! Keep up to date with the European Tour at: Website: www.europeantour.com Facebook: The European Tour Twitter: @EuropeanTour
Intervju med Thomas Björn inför Nordea Masters 2015
Ben Curtis takes the title as Thomas Bjorn's hopes vanish in a bunker. Keep in touch with us! Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/The-Open-Championship/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheOpen Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theopen/
One of the best wedge games in the world...
Højdepunkter fra 4. runde af Qatar Masters 2011 hvor Thomas Bjørn vandt - speaket af Michael Lermark, 6. februar 2011
Thomas Bjørn pressemøde, 12. september 2011
ECCO Tour Championship, Hosted by Thomas Bjørn & Ejner Hessel -- Stensballegaard Golfklub 18.08.2012
Krisjanis & Urmas VS Thomas Bjørn Lüthi & Iurii Iaroslavovich Iavorskyj
Dansk film fra 1995, instrueret af Lasse Spang Olsen. Blandt de medvirkende ses bl.a. Kasper Andersen, Dejan Cukic, Robert Hansen, Line Kruse, Thomas Eje, Preben Harris, Søren Østergaard, Michelle Bjørn-Andersen m.fl.
Dansk novellefilm fra 1995, instrueret af Thomas Vinterberg. Medvirkende: Holger Thaarup, Rube Veber, Michelle Bjørn-Andersen, Christian Hjejle, Martin Brygmann, Agnes Obel m.fl.
Kagekampen Sæson 1 Episode 21 I aftenens specialudgave får Thomas Mygind besøg af kendisbagerne Master Fatman, Inez Gavilanes, Bjørn Hannibal, Christina Bjørn og Thomas Evers Poulsen. De skal konkurrere om at blive ugens bedste kendisbager, og første udfordring er at lave en kage til sit største idol. Master Fatman er primært med for at smage de andres dej, så mon han når at få en kage færdig til bedømmelse hos de to konditorer Allan Andersen og Marianne Valentine? Der er nemlig kun halvanden time at bage i.