Ove Sellberg

Ove Sellberg
Personal information
Full name	Ove Bertil Sellberg
Born	15 October 1959 (1959-10-15) (age 52) Stockholm, Sweden
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Nationality	Sweden
Residence	Helsingborg, Sweden
Career
Turned professional	1982
Former tour(s)	European Tour
Professional wins	6
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	3
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	T32: 1985
PGA Championship	DNP

Ove Bertil Sellberg (born 15 October 1959) is a Swedish professional golfer.

Sellberg was born in Stockholm. He turned professional in 1982 and played on the European Tour through most of the 1980s and 1990s, twice finishing in the top twenty of the Order of Merit. He won three tournaments on the tour and represented his country in the World Cup and the Dunhill Cup several times.

When he defeated Howard Clark in the final of the Epson Grand Prix of Europe Match Play Championship in 1986, Sellberg became the first Swede to win a European Tour event. In 2000, he was one of the ten inaugural inductees to the Swedish Golfing Hall of Fame.^[1]

Professional wins

European Tour wins (3)

• 1986 Epson Grand Prix of Europe Match Play Championship
• 1989 Open Renault de Baleares
• 1990 Peugeot-Trends Belgian Open

Other wins (3)

• 1983 SAAB Cup (Sweden)
• 1985 Martini Cup (Sweden)
• 1988 ESAB Open (Sweden)

Results in major championships

Tournament	1985	1986	1987	1988
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T32	CUT	T57	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = Missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

• Hennessy Cognac Cup: 1984
• Dunhill Cup: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
• World Cup: 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989

References

1. ^ "Hall Of Fame". Swedish Golf Museum. http://www.svenskagolfmuseet.se/SGM_eng/halloffame.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-05. 

External links

• Ove Sellberg at the European Tour official site
• Profile on golfdata.se (Swedish)

Persondata
Name	Sellberg, Ove
Alternative names
Short description	Professional golfer
Date of birth	15 October 1959
Place of birth	Stockholm, Sweden
Date of death
Place of death