Lauri Ruuska


Lauri Ruuska is a Finnish professional golfer and European Tour player. He shot a 59 to win the 2023 Vierumäki Finnish Challenge.

Amateur career

Ruuska won the 2013 Finnish Matchplay Championship, SM Reikäpeli, as a teenager, and topped the Finnish Tour Order of Merit. In 2015, he won the Finnish Stroke Play Championship, was runner-up at the Finnish Amateur Championship, and tied for 4th at the Nordea Tour Winter Series Lakes Open in Spain, a Nordic Golf League event. He made the cut at the 2015 GANT Open, a Challenge Tour event.

Professional career

Ruuska turned professional ahead of the 2016 season and joined the Nordic Golf League, where he won his first title in 2017.
In 2020, he was runner-up at the PGA Catalunya Resort Championship, Thisted Forsikring Championship and Ledreborg Masters to finish 4th in the Order of Merit and join the 2021 Challenge Tour.
On the Challenge Tour, he won his first title at the 2023 Vierumäki Finnish Challenge, where he shot a bogey-free 59, becoming the fourth player in Challenge Tour history and the first Finn to card a sub-60 round.
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Ruuska was successful at Q-School and joined the 2024 European Tour, where his best finish his rookie season was a tie for 10th at the Italian Open.
In 2026, he joined the MENA Golf Tour where he won the Egypt Golf Series event at New Giza Golf Club after a final round ten-under-par 62.

Amateur wins

  • 2015 Finnish Stroke Play Championship
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Professional wins (9)

Challenge Tour (1)

MENA Golf Tour (1)

Nordic Golf League wins (1)

Finnish Tour wins (6)

Team appearances

Amateur