Tobias Jonsson | |
Birth Date: | 12 June 2000 |
Birth Place: | Haninge, Stockholm County, Sweden |
College: | Young Harris College Mercer University |
Status: | Amateur |
Tobias Jonsson (born 12 June 2000) is a Swedish amateur 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 4 to 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.
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.[9] Jonsson made it to match play at the U.S. Amateur and the quarterfinals at The Amateur Championship,[10] to find himself on the 2023–24 Haskins Award pre-season watch list.[11]
In 2024, he won the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational, earning a start at the PGA Tour's 3M Open.[12]
Amateur
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