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Swedish Hall Of Fame

The Swedish Golf Museum houses the Swedish Golfing Hall of Fame. At present it contains ten people who have all done pioneering work as golfers. Who will be the next addition to the Hall of Fame? The ten players who have been in the Swedish Golfing Hall of Fame since its inauguration in June 2000 are:

ERIK RUNFELT Göteborgs GK, Lidingö GK 1893-1978		GUSTAV ADOLF BIELKE Lidingö GK, Rya GK, Båstads GK 1930-2000

The first Swede who started to play golf in his early years. Of the seven Runfelt children who lived beside the Hovås course, six became golfers of Swedish elite class. The best of them was Erik, with 15 Swedish and 5 Scandinavian championships. He took part in his first international competition in 1914 and his last one was in 1948. He won the RM Oldboys thirteen times, including eleven times running. For many years he was the great authority on Swedish golf: an expert on the rules, a golf writer and leader both of his own club (Lidingö Golf Club) and of the Swedish Golf Association. Editor in chief of Svensk Golf 1947-57, secretary of the association 1958-63. A tower of strength.		The first Swede to achieve international success. In the 1950s and 60s he won several international championships: 1951 the French Open for juniors, 1953 the Norwegian Open, 1959 the German Open, 1961 the Belgian Open. A strong man in Sweden's gold team in the European Championships in 1959 and 1961 and in our three first World Cup teams 1958, 1960 and 1962. Together with Gunnar Carlander he made up a dreaded foursome pair in international matches and championships. A leading profile in sport, who also played bandy and ice hockey in the national league and was also a high-class player in curling.



LIV WOLLIN Lidingö GK, Falsterbo GK Född 1945		GUNNAR MUELLER Lunds Ak. GK, Flommens GK Född 1948

Began as a caddie for GA Bielke at Lidingö Golf Club and copied his short swing. A talent at Swedish elite level in both curling and bowling, but best of all at golf. She succeeded Britt Mattsson as the dominant figure in Swedish women's golf for a long period and won numerous championships: 10 Swedish, 8 Scandinavian Internationals and 8 Swedish Stroke Play Championships. Took part in ten successive World Cup tournaments 1964-1982, achieving a third place in the team and two third places individually. European Championship team gold in 1981. She has won several international championships, been on the board of the Swedish Golf Association and has also competed as a professional. Queen of golf in her day.		As an amateur he won the European Team Championship for juniors in 1969 and SKIM two years later. He was one of the very first Swedes to choose a career as a competing professional. In 1973 he took his golf bag and guitar and set off to play the complete European tour, the first Swede to do so. In the same year he was also the first Swede to play all 72 holes of the British Open. His best place in a major pro competition was fifth in the World Cup in 1978. On Swedish ground he won four PGA championships. He is now an instructor, lecturer and writer. He showed the way into the future.

KÄRSTIN EHRNLUND Gullbringa G&CC Född 1958		OVE SELLBERG Ågesta GK Född 1959


Had a quick breakthrough with Swedish Championship victories in 1977 and 1978 and played in the World Cup in 1978. Immediately after the World Cup she became the first Swedish woman to pursue a career in professional competition golf, despite the difficulty the European women's tour had in becoming established, which meant that few competitions were offered. In August 1980 Kärstin played the Welsh Classic at Whitchurch Golf Club in Wales. She began with rounds of 68-74 and was in the lead. When the last round had to be cancelled due to rain she was declared the winner. Sweden had won its first international tour victory. Four years later Kärstin won yet another competition, the United Friendly Tournament. She now runs Bollestad Golf together with her husband Erik. A female pioneer.		Ove Sellberg was part of the Swedish team that managed a sensational second place at the World Cup in Switzerland in 1982. The following year he began his professional career as one of the three members of the first major professional Swedish venture, Team Saab. After little more than two years on the tour, Swedish golf reached a new milestone. In the Epson Grand Prix he won four matches to reach the final against Howard Clark. He also won that 3/2, giving Sweden its first male tour victory. In 1989 he had his second win (Open de Baleares) and in 1990 number 3 (Belgian Open). A male pioneer.

ANDERS FORSBRAND Uddeholms GK, Karlstads GK Född 1961		LISELOTTE NEUMANN Finspångs GK Född 1965


He decided as a 17-year-old to become a full-time golfer and trained intensively, even in the winter, at home in Uddeholm. After a short amateur career he turned pro, borrowed money and took the train to the tour school in Portugal. In 1987, the year after Ove Sellberg's premiere victory, Anders Forsbrand won the Swiss Open, the first Swedish male tour victory in a stroke play competition. In 1991 he was the power behind Sweden's unique double triumph: first in the Dunhill Cup together with Mats Lanner and Per-Ulrik Johansson, then in the World Cup together with Per-Ulrik. In 1993 he was the first Swede to start in all four of the year's Majors. Yet another pioneer.		The epitome of the Swedish golf miracle. She grew up at a simple 9-hole course to which she could cycle - and later drive her moped - to practise as much as she wanted. Her breakthrough was a victory in the Swedish Stroke Play Championship in 1981, where she had a margin of nine strokes over the twelve Swedes who had just won team titles at the European Championship - in the first 72-hole competition of her life. After two team victories in the European Championship for juniors and two World Cup starts she turned pro in 1985, and won two European Tour competitions in her very first year. in 1988 she tried her luck on the US tour. In the first Major of her life, the US Open, she led from start to finish, set a new competition record and won by three strokes. She showed the way to the heights of world golf.


ANNIKA SÖRENSTAM Bro-Bålsta GK Född 1970		JESPER PARNEVIK Täby GK Född 1965

One of the many young Swedish golfers who tested the combination of studies and golf in the USA. Reaching the final of the US Amateur is as great an achievement as first place individually in the World Cup in 1992. Her first year as a professional was in 1993 and already the following year Annika took the step over to the US tour. There she became one of the dominant players, as shown by her world ranking as number one for a long period, 1998-1999. in 1995 she wrote golf history and sports history when her victory in the US Open won her the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal and several other awards, including having her picture on a postage stamp. in 1996 she repeated the victory. At the start of 2000 she took her 20th victory on the US tour, which meant that she assured herself a place in the Golfing Hall of Fame in record time. She has methodically torn down barriers.		If Annika Sörenstam is the archetype of the methodical golfer, then Jesper Parnevik is her exact opposite. Irrational, creative, always eager to test anything new. His early career was not exactly straight, but it laid the foundation for a skill in golf that simply grows when conditions are tough. In 1995 he lived up to the spectators' expectations at Barsebäck and pulled off the first Swedish victory in the Scandinavian Masters. In 1999 he played dream golf together with Sergio Garcia in the Ryder Cup. By spring 2000 he had gained four victories on the US tour and four on the European tour, and is the top-ranking male Swedish golfer of all time. A golf artist.

Opening hours: Monday - Thursday 09:00-15:00 Friday - Sunday closed

From 1 April Monday - Friday 08:00-17:00
Saturday - Sunday, public holidays and the day before them 08:00-14:00

Telephone number: 0418-446260. Fax: 0418-446262
info@landskronagk.se

Behind the Swedish Golf Museum in Landskrona is the Swedish Golf Museum Foundation. It was formed in 1999 (registered 20 October 1999) by three bodies: the Swedish Golf Association, the Swedish Association for the History of Golf and Landskrona Golf Club. The aim of the Foundation is to "establish and run a Swedish golf museum".