Tobias Jonsson | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Haninge, Stockholm County, Sweden | 12 June 2000
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
Sporting nationality | Sweden |
Career | |
College | Young Harris College Mercer University |
Turned professional | 2024 |
Tobias Jonsson (born 12 June 2000) is a Swedish professional golfer. He won the individual title at the 2022 Eisenhower Trophy, the World Amateur Team Championship. [1]
Jonsson accepted a scholarship to Young Harris College and spent two years playing with the Young Harris Mountain Lions men's golf team, 2019–2021, winning the 2021 Bobcat Invitational. [2] He spent his next three years at Mercer University playing with the Mercer Bears men's golf team, where he won six tournaments. [3]
In 2021, he finished solo third at the Göteborg Open on the Nordic Golf League, two strokes behind winner Jonathan Ågren. [4]
Jonsson joined the Sweden national team in 2022. [5] He won silver at the 2022 European Amateur Team Championship in England, after Sweden lost the final to Spain 41⁄2 to 21⁄2. [6] He birdied the final hole for a score of 17-under 269, a stroke ahead of Japan's Taiga Semikawa, to become the individual leader at the 2022 Eisenhower Trophy. [7] His team, which also consisted of Ludvig Åberg and Adam Wallin, finished in second place behind Italy and ahead of the United States in third. [8]
Jonsson played in the Scandinavian Invitation at Ullna Golf & Country Club on the 2023 European Tour, and made the cut. [9]
In 2023, he represented Europe at the Bonallack Trophy at La Manga Club. Teaming up with Albert Hansson for the foursomes and fourballs he recorded a score of 3–2–0 (W–L–D) for the event. [10] Jonsson made it to match play at the U.S. Amateur and the quarterfinals at The Amateur Championship, [11] to find himself on the 2023–24 Haskins Award pre-season watch list. [12]
In 2024, he won the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational, earning a start at the PGA Tour's 3M Open. [13]
Jonsson turned professional after the U. S. Amateur in 2024, and made his pro debut at the Indoor Golf Group Challenge where he finished tied 18th. [14]
Amateur
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