Danish twins Rasmus and Nicolai Højgaard, who have both played on winning European Ryder Cup teams, will compete in this year’s Zurich Classic.
Together, The Højgaard brothers have nine international titles between them, five for Rasmus and four for Nicolai. They are the first brothers in the history of the DP World Tour to win titles on consecutive weeks.
They became the first twins to compete in The Open Championship in 2023.
They are also the first set of twins to play together in the Masters and the first brothers since Eduardo and Francesco Molinari played together in 2012. Nicolai received a special invitation and Rasmus qualified via the top 50 on the 2024 year-end Official World Golf Ranking.
One of the other brother pairs in Masters history was Jay and Lionel Hebert of Lafayette, LA, who played in the same Masters from 1956-1968, the longest streak of any brother duo.
Rasmus was a member of the 2025 European Ryder Cup team that defeated the Americans at Bethpage Black in September of last year.
A week after Rasmus’s third European victory, his brother Nicolai took his own first title at the Italian Open. A last-minute wild-card entry, Nicolai birdied the final hole to finish one stroke ahead of Tommy Fleetwood.
Nicolai played on the victorious 2023 European Ryder Cup team. In November of that year he won the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, firing a 64 in the final round. He has won four times on the DP World Tour.
Both brothers have represented Denmark at the Olympics. Nicolai finished seventh in the 2024 Paris Olympics after tying a course record with a 62 in the third round. Rasmus tied for 38th in the 2020 Tokyo games that were played in 2021 with a smaller, no-cut field due to the Covid epidemic.
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