Golf is starting to see double. Identical twins from Japan, Denmark and Germany are competing….
Rasmus Hojgaard of Denmark is a lock to be among the leading 10 players from the European tour who earn a PGA Tour card for 2025, making it the second straight year of identical twins on the PGA Tour.
His brother, Nicolai, earned one of those European spots last year.Pierceson and Parker Coody, the grandsons of former Masters champion Charles Coody, had tour cards this season.
More sets of identical twins might not be too far behind on various tours.Jeremy Paul of Germany has earned a PGA Tour card for 2025 through the Korn Ferry Tour.
His twin brother, Yannik Paul, is on the European tour and has an outside chance of getting one of the 10 cards for the PGA Tour.In Japan, the 22-year-old Iwai twins — Akie and Chisato — each have three victories on the Japan LPGA this year, and both are among the top 50 in the world.
Identical twins are nothing new in golf — think back to Curtis and Allan Strange — but it’s no longer a novelty.The Hojgaard twins are the most accomplished. Nicolai made his Ryder Cup debut at Marco Simone in Italy last year.
Rasmus has five European tour titles, two more than his brother. Nicolai is currently No. 55 in the world ranking, Rasmus is at No. 56 going into the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship this week.“It’s probably a good thing that Nicolai went over there to start with,” he said Tuesday in Abu Dhabi.
“Now I can sort of guide myself around and hopefully not make some of the same mistakes. We talked a lot about it, and yeah, we’re going to probably find maybe a place over there and make it easier, not traveling over the Atlantic every other week.”
The Hojgaards and Coodys made a small slice of PGA Tour history this year when both sets of identical twins played in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.Odds are the Danish twins will be the only ones on the PGA Tour in 2025.
Pierceson Coody is at No. 130 in the FedEx Cup, while Parker Coody is at No. 169 with three tournaments left.The Paul brothers went their separate ways after playing college golf at Colorado. Yannik is No. 155 in the world because of getting more ranking points on the European tour.
Jeremy beat him to the PGA Tour — at least for now. Yannik is No. 43 in the Race to Dubai and would need a big week in Abu Dhabi to make up ground and get the 10th PGA Tour card.Oddly enough, their time at Colorado overlapped with another set of identical twins competing for the Buffaloes — Jenny and Kristin Coleman, who have both played on the Epson Tour.
Jenny Coleman has made it to the LPGA Tour (including this year), while her sister has never advanced past the developmental Epson Tour.Go back two decades to find Aree and Naree Song on the LPGA Tour. Aree Song was runner-up at the Kraft Nabisco Championship at age 17 in 2004, the same year her sister won on what is now the Epson Tour.
As for the Iwai twins, their record on the Japan LPGA is nearly identical, too. Both have won three times this year. Akie is No. 26 in the world, Chisato is No. 48. Both played in the U.S. Women’s Open and the Women’s British Open. Chisato tied for 19th in the U.S. Women’s Open and Akie tied for seventh at St. Andrews.
