Sebastian Söderberg
Personal information
Full nameJan Sebastian Söderberg
Born (1990-09-19) 19 September 1990
Eksjö, Sweden
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight84 kg (185 lb; 13.2 st)
Sporting nationality Sweden
ResidenceGothenburg, Sweden
Career
CollegeCoastal Carolina University
Turned professional2013
Current tour(s)European Tour
Former tour(s)Challenge Tour
Professional wins6
Number of wins by tour
European Tour1
Challenge Tour2
Other3
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenT53: 2022
The Open ChampionshipDNP

Jan Sebastian Söderberg (born 19 September 1990) is a Swedish professional golfer.

Early life and amateur career

Söderberg was born in Eksjö in Småland, Sweden, but grew up playing golf at Delsjö Golf Club in Gothenburg on the west coast of the country. He won four junior tournaments in the Gothenburg area.

He was part of the Swedish team winning the 2008 European Boys' Team Championship at Bled Golf Club, Slovenia.[1] He also represented Sweden twice at the European Amateur Team Championship.[2]

Söderberg played college golf at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina from 2009 to 2013, where he won twice.[3]

His best World Amateur Golf Ranking was 51st.[4]

Professional career

Söderberg turned professional in August 2013 and won twice on the Nordic Golf League the following month.[5][6]

In 2014, he played all three stages of the European Tour qualifying school, finishing 39th. This earned him membership of the Challenge Tour for 2015.

Söderberg then played on the European Tour and Challenge Tour in 2015. In 2016, he won the inaugural event of the 2016 Challenge Tour season, the Barclays Kenya Open.[7]

In June 2016, through sectional qualifying in England, he qualified for his first major championship entry, the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania, were he missed the cut by two strokes.

In a high quality field at the 2019 Omega European Masters in September at Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club, Switzerland, on the European Tour, after shooting a 14-under 266 score over 72 holes, Söderberg found himself in a five-man playoff for the title. One of Söderberg's competitors were the newly crowned PGA Tour FedEx Cup Champion Rory McIlroy, who made five birdies in his last seven holes to catch the leaders. On the first extra hole, the par 4 18th, Söderberg claimed the biggest title of his career with a good approach and an eight feet birdie putt, when McIlroy and Kalle Samooja, missed their birdie-putts from shorter distances.[8]

The win in Switzerland earned Söderberg a first prize of €416,000, an exemption through the end of the 2021 European Tour season and moved him to a career best 107th on the Official World Golf Ranking, advancing from 287th the week before. He finished the 2019 season 52nd on the Race to Dubai rankings.

In January 2020, Söderberg set a record for the European Tour by playing the quickest round in the final round of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Teeing off first with a local marker and his caddie, he decided to attempt it and shot a round of 75; a better score than 30 golfers who played at normal pace. Söderberg played in 96 minutes, beating the previous record of 119 minutes set by Thomas Pieters.[9]

In 2021, Söderberg finished tied second in two tournaments in Spain back to back. He was joint runner-up with Min Woo Lee at the 2021 Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters, 3 strokes behind Matt Fitzpatrick. The following week he finished a stroke behind Jeff Winther at the Mallorca Golf Open. He ended the season 61st in the Race to Dubai.

Söderberg again came close to adding a second European Tour title at the 2022 British Masters at The Belfry. He entered the final round six strokes off the lead but emerged from the chasing pack to set the clubhouse target at nine under. However, Thorbjørn Olesen of Denmark produced a sensational eagle-birdie finish to deny him a second title, and he finished solo second.[10]

Amateur wins

  • 2008 Carin Koch Junior Open (Gullbringa G&CC, Sweden)
  • 2009 Chalmers Junior Open (Chalmers GC, Sweden), Carl Pettersson Hovås Junior Open (Göteborg GC, Sweden)
  • 2010 Carl Pettersson Hovås Junior Open (Göteborg GC, Sweden)
  • 2012 Furman Intercollegiate
  • 2013 Insperity ASU Invitational

Sources: [6][11]

Professional wins (6)

European Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runners-up
1 1 Sep 2019 Omega European Masters −14 (64-70-66-66=266) Playoff Italy Lorenzo Gagli, Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy,
Argentina Andrés Romero, Finland Kalle Samooja

European Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 2019 Omega European Masters Italy Lorenzo Gagli, Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy,
Argentina Andrés Romero, Finland Kalle Samooja		 Won with birdie on first extra hole

Challenge Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 20 Mar 2016 Barclays Kenya Open −18 (67-68-68-67=270) 3 strokes France Romain Langasque
2 15 Jul 2018 Italian Challenge −17 (64-67-71-65=267) 1 stroke Norway Eirik Tage Johansen

Nordic Golf League wins (3)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 6 Sep 2013 Willis Masters −11 (69-69-67=205) Playoff Sweden Oskar Henningsson
2 20 Sep 2013 Actona PGA Championship −9 (64-67-70=201) Playoff Denmark Daniel Løkke
3 26 Feb 2018 Lumine Lakes Open −16 (68-64-66=198) 4 strokes Denmark Mark Haastrup

Results in major championships

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament 201620172018
Masters Tournament
U.S. Open CUT
The Open Championship
PGA Championship
Tournament 2019202020212022
Masters Tournament
PGA Championship
U.S. Open T53
The Open Championship NT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships

Tournament2020
Championship
Match Play NT1
Invitational 77
Champions NT1

1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Did not play

NT = No tournament

Team appearances

Amateur

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "European Boys' Team Championship". European Golf Association.
  2. 1 2 "European Amateur Team Championship". European Golf Association.
  3. ↑ "Sebastian Soderberg profile". Coastal Carolina Sports. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Sebastian Söderberg". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "Sebastian Söderberg – Career Results". sebastiansoderberg.com. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Sebastian Söderberg". www.golfdata.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "Soderberg reigns supreme to become Kenyan king". PGA European Tour. 20 March 2016.
  8. ↑ Huggan, John (1 September 2019). "Sebastian Soderberg beats Rory McIlroy as part of wild five-man playoff at the European Masters". Golf Digest.
  9. ↑ "Fastest round on European Tour: Sebastian Soderberg sets record". BBC Sport. 26 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "Sublime finish sees Olesen return to winner's circle". European Tour. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  11. ↑ "Sebastian Soderberg". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
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