Freddie Jacobson

Swedish professional golfer

Fredrik Ulf Yngve Jacobson (born 26 September 1974) is a Swedish professional golfer who formerly played on the PGA Tour and the European Tour.

Jacobson was born in Kungsbacka, 30 kilometers south of Gothenburg, at the west coast of Sweden. At young age, he was a promising ice hockey player. When Jacobson was 10 years old, he started playing golf. The club pro, Per Nellbeck, at the local golf club, Kungsbacka Golf Club, also played ice hockey and taught the entire Jacobson family to play, his parents Ulf and Monica and his sister Therese, who also came to be a golf professional. Jacobson also showed early talent in table tennis and ranked top 30 in his country at age 14–15.

At age 18, Jacobson won both the European and the World final of the 1992 Doug Sanders International Junior Championship at Hazlehead Golf Club, Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1994, Jacobson won the last edition of the British Youths Open Championship, scoring 277 over 72 holes at Royal St David's Golf Club, Wales. Jacobson represented Sweden at the 1994 Eisenhower Trophy at Le Golf National outside Paris, France. He finished 3rd with his team and best Swedish player, tied 4th individually, one stroke ahead of Tiger Woods.

He turned professional in late in 1994 and qualified for the 1995 European Tour through qualifying school, He was a member of the European Tour in 1995 and from 1997 to 2004. In December 2002 he won his first European Tour title, belonging to the 2002–2003 season, and went on to claim two more victories that season. His fourth place finish on the Order of Merit that year equalled Anders Forsbrand's Swedish record set in 1992, and was the first Swede to win three official money events in one season on the European Tour. Jacobson's victory at the 2003 Algarve Open de Portugal was the 50th win by a Swedish player on the European Tour. At the 2003 German Masters, Jacobson tied the European Tour 18 hole scoring record for one round, by shooting 12 under par 60 in the first round. The record was beaten in 2018, when Oliver Fisher scored a round of 59 at the Portugal Masters, but it is still, as of November 2020, a tied European Tour record in relation to par. It was also the lowest 18 hole score ever by a Swedish male player.

No. DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin ofvictoryRunners up126 Jun 2011Travelers Championship−20 (65 66 63 66=260)1 stroke Ryan Moore, John Rollins