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Pontus Widegren
Pontus Widegren
	Widegren in 2014
Personal information
Born	14 October 1990 (age 34); Danderyd, Sweden
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st)
Sporting nationality	Sweden
Career
College	University of California, Los Angeles
Turned professional	2013
Former tour(s)	European Tour; Challenge Tour; Swedish Golf Tour
Achievements and awards
AJGA Jerry Cole Sportsmanship Award
AJGA Jerry Cole Sportsmanship Award	2008

Pontus Widegren (born 14 October 1990) is a Swedish professional golfer and European Tour player.^[1]

Amateur career

Widegren has played golf since he was seven and began competing when he was 12. At 13, he became the youngest Club Champion at Stockholm Golf Club. He ranked as high as sixth on the AJGA circuit where he was runner-up at the 2008 Junior Players Championship. In November 2008, he was awarded the AJGA Jerry Cole Sportsmanship Award for his "respect for fellow players, as well as tournament staff and volunteers."^[2]

Widegren became a member of the Swedish National Team in 2005. He won the 2007 Junior Golf World Cup in Japan with scores of 68-65-74-68=275, and won the silver in 2006 and 2008. He also won the bronze at the 2008 Eisenhower Trophy in Australia with Jesper Kennegård and Henrik Norlander. In 2010, he won the St Andrews Trophy with the Continental European team.

Individually, he lost the final of the 2006 French International Boys Championship to Sean Einhaus 1 up. Widegren won the 2009 Swedish Junior Strokeplay Championship with scores of 76-65-68-72=281 (–9) following a play-off. In 2012, he finished 4th at the European Amateur in Ireland.

Widegren attended the University of California, Los Angeles 2009–13 and played for the UCLA Bruins men's golf team, where he won twice and was named All-American.^[2] He played in four consecutive Palmer Cups, recording 3-1-0 in matches against U.S. competition in his first appearance.^[3]

Professional career

Widegren turned professional after he graduated in 2013 and joined the Challenge Tour. He finished runner-up at the 2013 Norwegian Challenge, and had a one shot advantage heading into the final day of the 2015 Madeira Islands Open, a dual-ranked Challenge Tour and European Tour event, ultimately tying for fourth.^[4]

Widegren secured his European Tour card at the 2016 European Tour Qualifying School.^[5] In his rookie season in 2017, Widegren finished tied for third at the D+D Real Czech Masters.^[6]^[7]