Mikko Korhonen

Began playing the game aged ten after his father had started a year earlier. Played junior and amateur golf with Mikko Ilonen. Has bounced between Challenge Tour and European Tour, graduating from Qualifying School (including a win in the Final Stage in 2014) four times in the last seven seasons.
Spent the initial part of his career on the third-tier Nordic League tour. In 2006 he stepped up to the Challenge Tour, where he enjoyed five productive seasons, never winning but never finishing worse than 73rd in the final standings. At the end of 2010, Korhonen progressed to the European Tour for the first time via qualifying school but failed to retain his card for 2011. Korhonen returned to the Challenge Tour in 2012. In late 2012 he had his best result in a Challenge Tour event, finishing T-3rd in the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Challenge and also progressed to the 2013 European Tour through qualifying school.
Since 2013 Korhonen has played on the European Tour, although he struggled in the 2013 and 2014 seasons and only retained his place on the tour through the qualifying school. In October 2016, he finished T-3rd in the Portugal Masters, while in 2017 he was twice runner-up, in March in the Tshwane Open and in the Lyoness Open in June
Won his first European Tour title at the inaugural Shot Clock Masters in June 2018 at his 146th attempt on the European Tour. Two weeks later finish T-2nd at the BMW International Open, a shot back of winner Matt Wallace. Played in 26 events making 19 cuts with four top-ten finishes. He was also 3rd att he Tshwane Open and Andalucia Valderrama Masters. He finished 46th in the Race to Dubai. With the win at the Shot Clock, then the runner-up in Germany climbed to 96th in the OWGR which help get him into his first major at the PGA Championship. He missed the cut at Bellerive.
2019 Notes: Was T-10th at the Hero Indian Open. His second win came at the Volvo China Open, he beat Benjamin Hebert with a birdie on the first extra hole. With the win climbed from 121st to 84th in the Official World Golf Rankings which gets him his invitation to play in the PGA Championship. At Bethpage missed the cut.