Rikard Karlberg
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Rikard Karlberg | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Gothenburg, Sweden | 1 December 1986
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st) |
Sporting nationality | Sweden |
Career | |
Turned professional | 2006 |
Current tour(s) | European Tour Challenge Tour |
Former tour(s) | Asian Tour |
Professional wins | 8 |
Highest ranking | 69 (19 June 2016)[1] (as of 19 December 2021) |
Number of wins by tour | |
European Tour | 1 |
Asian Tour | 2 |
Other | 5 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | CUT: 2016 |
U.S. Open | CUT: 2010, 2013 |
The Open Championship | CUT: 2015, 2016, 2021 |
Rikard Karlberg (born 1 December 1986) is a Swedish professional golfer.
Early life and early professional career[]
Rikard Karlberg was born on 1 December 1986 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He turned professional in 2006. He topped the Nordic League rankings in 2007 to earn a tour card on the Challenge Tour. His best finish on the Challenge Tour was T4 at the 2008 Reale Challenge de España.
Professional career[]
Karlberg earned his 2010 Asian Tour card through qualifying school. He won the second Asian Tour event he played, the SAIL Open.[2][3] Later in the year, he won his second Asian Tour title at the Hero Honda Indian Open.
Karlberg earned a 2015 European Tour card through qualifying school, and won the Open d'Italia during his rookie season. He finished runner-up at the 2016 BMW PGA Championship en route to a career-best finish of 34th in the Race to Dubai. After battling illness which forced him to step away from competitive golf, he holed a 50-foot birdie putt on the final hole of 2019 Qualifying School to earn the final European Tour card for 2020.[4]
At the 2021 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open in early July, Karlberg finished runner-up, after holing a chip from the greenside rough on the 72nd hole. The achievement earned him €314,170 in prize money and a late spot at The 149th Open Championship two weeks later.[5]
Professional wins (8)[]
European Tour wins (1)[]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
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1 | 20 Sep 2015 | Open d'Italia | −19 (67-67-68-67=269) | Playoff | Martin Kaymer |
European Tour playoff record (1–0)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
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1 | 2015 | Open d'Italia | Martin Kaymer | Won with birdie on second extra hole |
Asian Tour wins (2)[]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
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1 | 2 Apr 2010 | SAIL Open | −20 (65-69-68-66=268) | 5 strokes | Shiv Kapur |
2 | 5 Dec 2010 | Hero Honda Indian Open | −11 (70-69-68-70=277) | 2 strokes |
Telia Tour wins (3)[]
- 2006 PGA Landmann Open
- 2007 PGA Landmann Open, St Ibb Open
Scanplan Tour wins (1)[]
- 2007 Unibake Masters
Other wins (1)[]
- 2009 Stenungsund Open (Swedish Golf Ranking)
Results in major championships[]
Results not in chronological order in 2020.
Tournament | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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Masters Tournament | |||||||||
U.S. Open | CUT | CUT | |||||||
The Open Championship | CUT | CUT | |||||||
PGA Championship | CUT |
Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Masters Tournament | |||
PGA Championship | |||
U.S. Open | |||
The Open Championship | NT | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
Results in World Golf Championships[]
Tournament | 2016 |
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Championship | |
Match Play | |
Invitational | |
Champions | T19 |
"T" = Tied
Team appearances[]
Amateur
- European Boys' Team Championship (representing Sweden): 2003[6]
- European Youths' Team Championship (representing Sweden): 2004[7]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Week 25 2016 Ending 19 Jun 2016" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
- ^ Karlberg Seals Victory In Style
- ^ Classy Karlberg Seals The Deal
- ^ "Rikard Karlberg". European Tour. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
- ^ "Big finish sends Karlberg to The Open". European Tour. July 4, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
- ^ "Golf - Den Stora Sporten'" [Golf - the Great Sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation 100 Years. p. 201.
- ^ "European Youths Team Championship". European Golf Association.
External links[]
- Official website (in Swedish)
- Rikard Karlberg at the European Tour official site
- Rikard Karlberg at the Asian Tour official site
- Profile on Golfdata.se (in Swedish)
- Rikard Karlberg at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
- Swedish male golfers
- European Tour golfers
- Asian Tour golfers
- Sportspeople from Gothenburg
- 1986 births
- Living people
- European golf biography stubs
- Swedish sportspeople stubs