Mikael Lindberg | |
Fullname: | Mikael Johan Lindberg |
Birth Date: | 12 January 1993 |
Residence: | Stockholm, Sweden |
Yearpro: | 2013 |
Tour: | European Tour |
Extour: | Challenge Tour Nordic Golf League |
Prowins: | 8 |
Sunwins: | 1 |
Chalwins: | 2 |
Otherwins: | 6 |
Award1: | Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit winner |
Year1: | 2020 |
Award2: | Nordic Golf League Order of Merit winner |
Year2: | 2020 |
Mikael Johan Lindberg (born 12 January 1993) is a Swedish professional golfer and European Tour player. He won the 2022 Indoor Golf Group Challenge.
Lindberg turned professional in 2013 and joined the Nordic Golf League. He recorded his maiden professional victory at the 2016 Trummenäs Open. In 2019 he won the Tour Final in Estonia.
His breakthrough season was 2020 when he won 4 tournaments and topped the Nordic Golf League Order of Merit, to graduate to the Challenge Tour.[1]
On the Challenge Tour he was in contention in his second start, finishing tied for third at the 2021 Bain's Whisky Cape Town Open, one stroke behind J. C. Ritchie and Jacques Blaauw. The finish propelled him to 250th on the Official World Golf Ranking.[2]
In 2022, Lindberg finished third at the Challenge de España, before shooting a closing five under par round of 66 to win the Indoor Golf Group Challenge three strokes ahead of Denmark's Nicolai Tinning, Englishman Steven Tiley and France's Robin Sciot-Siegrist.[3] [4] The following week he was runner-up at the B-NL Challenge Trophy, one stroke behind Alexander Knappe.
Lindberg finished 5th in the 2022 Challenge Tour rankings to graduate to the European Tour for 2023.[5]
Source:[6]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | |
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1 | 28 Aug 2022 | Indoor Golf Group Challenge | −17 (68-62-66=196)* | 3 strokes | Robin Sciot-Siegrist, Steven Tiley, Nicolai Tinning | |
2 | 11 Feb 2024 | Bain's Whisky Cape Town Open1 | −16 (70-70-65-67=272) | Playoff | Ryan van Velzen |
Challenge Tour playoff record (1–0)
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | |
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1 | 28 May 2016 | Trummenäs Open | −10 (69-68-69=206) | Playoff | Oliver Lindell | |
2 | 12 Oct 2019 | Tour Final | −18 (62-66-70=198) | 2 strokes | Björn Hellgren, Niklas Nørgaard | |
3 | 1 Mar 2020 | Lumine Lakes Open | −10 (69-66-68=203) | Playoff | Per Längfors | |
4 | 7 Aug 2020 | Thisted Forsikring Championship | −13 (64-67=131) | 2 strokes | Jeppe Huldahl, Frederik Kjettrup (a), Lauri Ruuska | |
5 | 28 Sep 2020 | Ledreborg Palace Golf Masters | −16 (67-65-68=200) | 3 strokes | Lauri Ruuska, Anton Wilbertsson |