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Niclas Fasth Personal information Full name Niclas Fasth Born 29 April 1972
Gothenburg, SwedenHeight 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Weight 79 kg (170 lb; 12.4 st) Nationality Sweden
Residence Ascot, Berkshire, England Spouse Marie (m. 2002) Children Adam (b. 2001)
Amanda (b. 2004)Career Turned professional 1993 Current tour(s) European Tour (joined 1996) Former tour(s) PGA Tour Professional wins 12 Number of wins by tour European Tour 6 Challenge Tour 4 Other 2 Best results in Major Championships Masters Tournament T39: 2008 U.S. Open 4th: 2007 The Open Championship 2nd: 2001 PGA Championship T10: 2003 Niclas Fasth (born 29 April 1972) is a Swedish professional golfer.
Fasth was born in Gothenburg. He turned professional in 1993 and won three events on the second tier European Challenge Tour that year. Since 1994 he has been a member of the European Tour for every season except for 1999. He qualified for the U.S. based PGA Tour at the 1997 Qualifying School, and played the PGA and European Tours concurrently in 1998. He had a bad season on both and in 1999 found himself back on the Challenge Tour. Since then he has concentrated on playing in Europe and in 2001, he finished tenth on the European Order of Merit. He also finished second to David Duval in the 2001 Open Championship which enabled Fasth to qualify for the 2002 Ryder Cup.
He had good seasons in 2005 and 2006, winning twice on the European Tour in both years and finishing thirteenth and fifteenth on the Order of Merit. In 2007, he finished fourth in the U.S. Open and the week after, he won his sixth European Tour event, the BMW International Open. These performances helped Fasth to a fifth place finish on the Order of Merit.
Fasth has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings. His primary sponsor is Callaway Golf.
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Personal life
Fasth is married to Marie and has two children.
Amateur wins (1)
- 1992 Swedish Amateur Championship
Professional wins (12)
European Tour (6)
No. Date Tournament Winning Score Margin of Victory Runner(s)-up 1 19 Mar 2000 Madeira Island Open -9 (66-72-68-73=279) 2 strokes Mark Davis,
Ross Drummond,
Richard S. Johnson
2 13 Feb 2005 Holden New Zealand Open -22 (65-63-75-63=266) Playoff Miles Tunnicliff
3 24 Jul 2005 Deutsche Bank Players
Championship of Europe-14 (68-66-72-68=274) Playoff Ángel Cabrera
4 30 Apr 2006 Open de Espana -18 (67-68-66-69=270) Playoff John Bickerton
5 22 Oct 2006 Mallorca Classic -5 (66-71-70-68=275) 3 strokes Sergio García
6 24 Jun 2007 BMW International Open -13 (67-65-73-70=275) 2 strokes Bernhard Langer,
José-Filipe Lima
Challenge Tour (4)
- 1993 (3) Vasteras Open, Compaq Open, Open Dijon Bourgogne
- 1999 (1) Daewoo Warsaw Golf Open
Other (2)
- 1993 (1) Swedish Professional Championship
- 1996 (1) European Tour Qualifying School (not an official tour event)
Results in major championships
Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 The Masters DNP CUT CUT DNP DNP DNP T55 T39 U.S. Open DNP T37 T48 DNP DNP CUT 4 CUT The Open Championship 2 T28 CUT CUT DNP CUT T35 CUT PGA Championship T29 CUT T10 T45 CUT CUT T42 T63 DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.Results in World Golf Championship events
Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Accenture Match Play Championship DNP R16 R32 R64 DNP R64 R16 R32 CA Championship NT1 T11 T16 DNP T37 DNP T6 T44 Bridgestone Invitational T21 T58 T58 T61 T33 DNP T22 T52 1Cancelled due to 9/11
DNP = Did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament held.
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.Team appearances
Amateur
- Eisenhower Trophy (representing Sweden): 1992
- St Andrews Trophy (representing Continental Europe): 1992
Professional
- WGC-World Cup (representing Sweden): 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
- Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 2002 (winners)
- Seve Trophy (representing Continental Europe): 2002, 2003, 2005
- Royal Trophy (representing Europe): 2007 (winners), 2009
External links
- Official website
- Niclas Fasth at the European Tour official site
- Niclas Fasth at the PGA Tour official site
- Niclas Fasth at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
European Ryder Cup team – 2002 Thomas Bjørn · Darren Clarke · Niclas Fasth · Pierre Fulke · Sergio García · Pádraig Harrington · Bernhard Langer · Paul McGinley · Colin Montgomerie · Jesper Parnevik · Phillip Price · Lee Westwood
Sam Torrance (non-playing captain)
Won: 15.5 – 12.5Categories:- Swedish golfers
- European Tour golfers
- PGA Tour golfers
- 1972 births
- Living people
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