Lars Mikael Lundberg (born 13 August 1973) is a Swedish professional

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er. He has won three times on the

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Early life and amateur career

Lundberg was born in

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. He represented Sweden in the 1994

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Professional career

Lundberg turned

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in 1995. He spent several years on the developmental

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, where he was victorious in the 1997

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, and won a place on the main European Tour via a fourth-place finish on the 2000 Challenge Tour Rankings. After two steady seasons on tour, a 137th-place finish on the 2003 Order of Merit cost him his European Tour card and he returned to the Challenge Tour in 2004. Lundberg won back his place on the European Tour by winning the 2005 Cadillac Russian Open, which was an official money event on both tours, but finished outside the top 150 on the 2006 Order of Merit, and returned to the Challenge Tour the next season. Another top ten finish on the Challenge Tour rankings in 2007 saw him regain his European Tour card for 2008, when he won the Russian Open for the second time, giving him a two-year exemption on the main tour. In 2017 Lundberg won the Lumine Lakes Open, an early-season event on the third-tier

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. In 2019 he won the World Snooker Jessie May Championship and the end-of-season Tour Championships on the

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, as well as the tour's Order of Merit. In April 2021 he won the PGA Catalunya Resort Championship on the Nordic Golf League at the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.

Professional wins (11)

European Tour wins (3)

¹Dual-ranking event with the

European Tour playoff record (2–0)

Challenge Tour wins (3)

¹Dual-ranking event with the

Challenge Tour playoff record (1–0)

PGA EuroPro Tour wins (2)

Nordic Golf League wins (2)

Swedish Golf Tour wins (1)

Other wins (1)

*1995 Slovenian Open

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing Sweden): 1991 (winners) *

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: 1992 (winners), 1994 *

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(representing Sweden):

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(representing Sweden):

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lundberg, Mikael Swedish male golfers European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Helsingborg 1973 births Living people