Kjeldsen: Diminitive In Stature, Tall In Friendliness & Personality As He Ends DP World Tour Career

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Danish golfer Soren Kjeldsen may be diminitive in stature but he makes-up for that being tall and generous in friendliness and personality.
There’s never been an occasion in so many years in meeting Soren that he would not greet you with a friendly welcome.
And for this reason it will be a big loss to the DP World Tour and very much the gain of the Legends Tour and hopefully the US-based Champions Tour following next May when Soren has turned 50.
It was half of those 50 years ago when the the 25-year-old Kjeldsen made his DP World Tour debut event at the 2018 co-sanctioned South African Open and now after his 712th Tour start in far-off South Korea, at the end of his 26 straight season, the soon-to-be 50-year-old Kjeldsen is calling it quits on the Tour.
Kjelden turns 50 on May 17th next year and already he’s looking forward to joining many of those who he competed alongside for over two decades on both the over-50 Legends Tour and Champions Tour.
The four-time Tour winner is exempt for the 2025 Legends Tour and will join the likes of fellow four-time DPWT champ Stevie Gallacher teeing-up next fortnight on one of three US courses for the first to two stages, as he strives to seek 2025 Champions Tour membership

“It was tough playing the last hole but it has been great, everything comes to an end,” he said in speaking with the DPWTs Mathieu Wood

“I am really looking forward to playing the seniors. I am playing well, but these [younger] guys hit it 30, 40, 50 past me so it is tough to compete. I look forward to playing with someone my age.”

Mathieu, and with the Tour thanks, continues the story appearing on the Tour’s website.

It was only earlier this season that he became just the fourth player to make 700 or more appearances, emulating David Howell, Miguel Angel Jiménez and Sam Torrance.

On Sunday, he finished what was his 712th start on the DP World Tour – only Howell (725) and Angel Jiménez (723) have played more.

And while 2024 is his last full campaign on the DP World Tour, more starts are likely to follow. He isn’t about to miss out on any opportunity to play on home soil at the Danish Golf Championship for starters.

But life playing week-in-week-out around the world on the formerly named European Tour is at an end.

Further success in Spain followed at the 2009 Open de Andalucía de Golf, with his fourth and biggest victory of his career materialising at the famed Royal County Down course where at the 2015 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open hosted by the Rory Foundation, he was presented the winning trophy by Rory McIlroy, after winning in a play-off.

Across his career, he has also competed at all four Majors, recording top tens in three of them, played on the PGA TOUR with a full card and won the World Cup of Golf with Thorbjørn Olesen in 2016, which he cited as the highlight.

So, with that in mind, Kjeldsen was understandably in reflective mood when he spoke to television golf reporter Tim Barter at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea.

“When you ask guys, majors are obviously the highest [point of careers], but Ryder Cups are maybe even higher because it is a team event [so] winning the World Cup with Thorbjørn was pretty special,” he reflected on his achievements in the game.

While Soren might be switching his focus, could there be another Kjeldsen soon out on Tour?

His sons Emil, 21, and Mads, 18, are trying to follow in their father’s footsteps with the former having played alongside his dad earlier this year on the Next Golf Tour, a professional golf tour played on Trackman simulators.

“They love it [golf], which is the main thing,” he said. “Obviously I encourage them. I think it is the greatest game of all.

“We will see, but they are doing really good.”

* Thank you DP World Tour



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