Mikael Lundberg

Mikael Lundberg
Personal information
Full nameLars Mikael Lundberg
Born (1973-08-13) 13 August 1973 (age 51)
Helsingborg, Sweden
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight90 kg (198 lb; 14 st 2 lb)
Sporting nationality Sweden
ResidenceHelsingborg, Sweden
Career
Turned professional1995
Current tour(s)European Senior Tour
Former tour(s)European Tour
Challenge Tour
PGA EuroPro Tour
Nordic Golf League
Swedish Golf Tour
Professional wins11
Number of wins by tour
European Tour3
Challenge Tour3
Other6
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenCUT: 2016
The Open ChampionshipDNP
Achievements and awards
PGA EuroPro Tour
Order of Merit winner
2019

Lars Mikael Lundberg (born 13 August 1973) is a Swedish professional golfer. He has won three times on the European Tour.

Early life and amateur career

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Lundberg was born in Helsingborg, Sweden. He represented Sweden in the 1994 Eisenhower Trophy.

Professional career

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Lundberg turned professional in 1995. He spent several years on the developmental Challenge Tour, where he was victorious in the 1997 Himmerland Open, and won a place on the main European Tour via a fourth-place finish on the 2000 Challenge Tour Rankings. After two steady seasons on tour, a 137th-place finish on the 2003 Order of Merit cost him his European Tour card and he returned to the Challenge Tour in 2004.

Lundberg won back his place on the European Tour by winning the 2005 Cadillac Russian Open, which was an official money event on both tours, but finished outside the top 150 on the 2006 Order of Merit, and returned to the Challenge Tour the next season. Another top ten finish on the Challenge Tour rankings in 2007 saw him regain his European Tour card for 2008, when he won the Russian Open for the second time, giving him a two-year exemption on the main tour.

In 2017 Lundberg won the Lumine Lakes Open, an early-season event on the third-tier Nordic Golf League. In 2019 he won the World Snooker Jessie May Championship and the end-of-season Tour Championships on the PGA EuroPro Tour, as well as the tour's Order of Merit.[1] In April 2021 he won the PGA Catalunya Resort Championship on the Nordic Golf League at the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.[2]

Professional wins (11)

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European Tour wins (3)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 14 Aug 2005 Cadillac Russian Open1 −15 (67-68-69-69=273) Playoff England Andrew Butterfield
2 27 Jul 2008 Inteco Russian Open Golf Championship (2) −21 (67-64-68-68=267) 2 strokes Spain José Manuel Lara
3 8 Jun 2014 Lyoness Open −12 (67-68-76-65=276) Playoff Austria Bernd Wiesberger

1Dual-ranking event with the Challenge Tour

European Tour playoff record (2–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2005 Cadillac Russian Open England Andrew Butterfield Won with birdie on fourth extra hole
2 2014 Lyoness Open Austria Bernd Wiesberger Won with birdie on first extra hole

Challenge Tour wins (3)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 1 Jun 1997 Himmerland Open −7 (69-72-68=209) 5 strokes France Raphaël Eyraud
2 14 Aug 2005 Cadillac Russian Open1 −15 (67-68-69-69=273) Playoff England Andrew Butterfield
3 20 Oct 2007 Toscana Open Italian Federation Cup −16 (66-67-62-73=268) 5 strokes Republic of Ireland Stephen Browne

1Dual-ranking event with the European Tour

Challenge Tour playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2005 Cadillac Russian Open England Andrew Butterfield Won with birdie on fourth extra hole

PGA EuroPro Tour wins (2)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 7 Jun 2019 World Snooker Championship −7 (68-71-70=209) 1 stroke England James Adams, England Alfie Plant
2 1 Nov 2019 Tour Championships −10 (64-73-69=206) Playoff England James Allan

Nordic Golf League wins (2)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 27 Feb 2017 Lumine Lakes Open −14 (63-69-68=200) 1 stroke Sweden Christopher Feldborg Nielsen
2 20 Apr 2021 PGA Catalunya Resort Championship −10 (69-66-70=205) Playoff Sweden Jesper Kennegård, Finland Lauri Ruuska

Swedish Golf Tour wins (1)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 15 Jun 1997 Husqvarna Open −11 (66-66-67=199) 1 stroke Sweden Patrik Sjöland

Other wins (1)

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  • 1995 Slovenian Open

Team appearances

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Amateur

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Keogh, Brian (1 November 2019). "Caldwell falls to seventh as Lundberg tops Europro Tour graduates". Irish Golf Desk. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Mikael Lundberg vinder PGA Catalunya Resort Championship efter dramatisk omspil" (in Danish). ECCO Tour. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  3. ^ "European Boys' Team Championship – European Golf Association". Retrieved 22 January 2023.
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