| Daniel Svärd | |
| Birth Date: | 7 February 2003 |
| Birth Place: | Järfalla, Stockholm County, Sweden |
| Weight: | 181lb |
| Residence: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| College: | Northwestern University |
| Status: | Amateur |
| Award1: | Annika Sörenstam Trophy |
| Year1: | 2020 |
| Award2: | Big Ten Freshman of the Year |
| Year2: | 2023 |
Daniel Svärd (born 7 February 2003) is a Swedish amateur golfer. He won the 2024 European Amateur Team Championship, and the 2021 Jacques Léglise Trophy with the continental European team.
Svärd was born in 2003 and is attached to Viksjö Golf Club in his native Järfälla Municipality. He was educated at the Celsius School in Uppsala.
In 2020, Svärd won the Swedish Junior Strokeplay Championship, a stroke ahead of William Wistrand, and topped the Swedish Teen Tour Order of Merit, earning the Annika Sörenstam Trophy. In 2021, he was selected to represent Europe in the Jacques Léglise Trophy, in which the Europeans prevailed 16 to 8 over the British at Falsterbo Golf Club, Sweden. He secured two points in foursomes paired with Tim Wiedemeyer.[1]
Svärd joined the National Team in 2021.[2] He won bronze in the 2021 European Boys' Team Championship in Denmark after Sweden lost the semi-final to Germany 3–4, where he beat Tim Wiedemeyer, 2 and 1.[3] He secured gold for Sweden at the 2024 European Amateur Team Championship in Italy after he won his Sunday singles match against Benjamin Reuter, 2 and 1, for a score of 3–2 in the final against the Netherlands.[4] [5]
Svärd enrolled at Northwestern University in 2022 as an economics major and started playing with the Northwestern Wildcats men's golf team.[6] He earned Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Year honors and won the Big Ten Championship both as a freshman and sophomore, joining only Luke Donald and Sid Richardson as two-time individual conference champions for the Wildcats.[7] [8]
Amateur