Marcus Helligkilde

Marcus Helligkilde (born 5 October 1996) is a Danish professional golfer. In 2021, he won the Vierumäki Finnish Challenge and Swiss Challenge on the Challenge Tour and finished the season as the winner of the Challenge Tour Rankings.

Marcus Helligkilde
Personal information
Born (1996-10-05) 5 October 1996
Smørumnedre, Denmark
Sporting nationality Denmark
Career
Turned professional2017
Current tour(s)European Tour
Former tour(s)Challenge Tour
Nordic Golf League
Professional wins7
Highest ranking80 (21 November 2021)[1]
(as of 22 October 2023)
Number of wins by tour
Challenge Tour3
Other4
Achievements and awards
Danish Golf Tour
Order of Merit winner		2020
Challenge Tour
Rankings winner		2021

Career

As an amateur, Helligkilde won the 2015 Turkish Amateur Open Championship and represented Denmark at the 2016 Eisenhower Trophy and the 2017 European Amateur Team Championship.

Helligkilde turned professional in late 2017 and joined the 2018 Nordic Golf League (NGL), where he recorded 10 top-10 finishes and secured his maiden professional title at the Ekerum Öland Masters in September. He finished fifth on the NGL Ranking to earn a Challenge Tour card for 2019.[2]

With limited success on the 2019 Challenge Tour, he found himself back on the 2020 NGL where he won the Lumine Hills Open in Spain in February.[3] He finished secondon the NGL Ranking and again earned a Challenge Tour card for 2021.[4]

Helligkilde found success on the 2021 Challenge Tour and won two tournaments in quick succession, the Vierumäki Finnish Challenge and the Swiss Challenge.[5] He climbed into third place on the Challenge Tour Ranking following his victory at the Swiss Challenge in October, with three tournaments left of the season.[6]

Amateur wins
  • 2015 Turkish Amateur Open Championship
  • 2016 Hillerod Pokalen, Asserbo Pokalen

Source:[7]

Professional wins (7)

Challenge Tour wins (3)
Legend
Grand Finals (1)
Other Challenge Tour (2)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 8 Aug 2021 Vierumäki Finnish Challenge −23 (61-67-66-71=265) 2 strokes Sweden Jesper Svensson
2 3 Oct 2021 Swiss Challenge −25 (65-67-62-69=263) 1 stroke Denmark Nicolai Kristensen, England Jonathan Thomson
3 7 Nov 2021 Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final −8 (69-67-68-72=276) 1 stroke France Julien Brun, Portugal Ricardo Gouveia,
France Frédéric Lacroix, Germany Yannik Paul

Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 2021 B-NL Challenge Trophy Spain Alfredo García-Heredia, Northern Ireland Michael Hoey,
Iceland Haraldur Magnús		 García-Heredia won with birdie on seventh extra hole
Magnús eliminated by par on third hole
Hoey eliminated by birdie on first hole

Nordic Golf League wins (3)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1 27 Sep 2018 Ekerum Öland Masters −9 (63-74-70=207) 1 stroke Sweden Jesper Billing
2 25 Feb 2020 Lumine Hills Open −13 (69-63-71=203) 2 strokes Denmark Oliver Hundebøll
3 16 Apr 2021 ECCO Tour Spanish Masters −17 (66-64-69=199) 1 stroke Denmark Morten Ørum Madsen

Danish Golf Tour wins (1)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
1 26 Jun 2020 Jyske Bank Danish PGA Championship −17 (67-65-70=202) 2 strokes Denmark Niklas Nørgaard Møller

Team appearances

Amateur

See also

References
  1. "Week 47 2021 Ending 21 Nov 2021" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  2. "GolfBox Nordic Golf League Ranking 2018". Nordic Golf League. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  3. "Player Profile Marcus Helligkilde". Golfdata. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  4. "GolfBox Nordic Golf League Ranking 2020". Nordic Golf League. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  5. "Low-scoring Helligkilde claims second Challenge Tour victory". European Tour. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  6. "Heroic Helligkilde rises into top three of Road to Mallorca Rankings". European Tour. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  7. "Marcus Helligkilde". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
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