The phrase "a difficult choice between" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a situation where you have to make a tough decision between two or more options.
Example: "I faced a difficult choice between pursuing my career or starting a family."
Alternatives: "a tough decision between" or "a challenging selection between".
Chris Hughes, Cambridge A difficult choice between two goodbyes.
Drexler said it came down to a difficult choice between basketball and being a parent.
It was a difficult choice between this and Steenbeck's nomination of Jurassic 5, but here is frontman Charles Stewart on his own.
The family faced a difficult choice, between the certainty of a slow, predictable decline and the possibility of an immediate cure — or catastrophe.
In the centre are The People who, having previously been stuck with a difficult choice between town and country lifestyle, will now be attracted to Howard's proposal.
That is why Mr Tsipras will, before long, face a difficult choice between backing down on his demands or presiding over a ruinous Greek exit.
Another theme expressed by participants was the need to make the difficult choice between spending limited resources on medical needs—such as the cost of transportation to clinic or the cost of additional medications to prevent opportunistic infections and spending it on food for themselves and their families.
The unexpected reversal of fortune has posed a difficult choice for museum officials, torn between continuing to keep the financially rewarding sinkhole intact or to fill in the huge cavity and return the showroom to its fundamental mission of displaying prized Corvettes.
A dilemma is a difficult choice which has to be made between alternatives, desirable or, more usually, undesirable.
While initial migration is generally unavoidable in conflict-driven situations [ 7], return migration following conflict resolution often presents a difficult choice if displacement has been prolonged: between a desire to return to an area of origin, and the reality of partial or total settlement in the displacement area [ 6, 7].
In an article written before the Brexit vote, I suggested that the EU faces the difficult choice between an EU-imposed, top-down climate policy agenda or a bottom-up, state-driven policy.
