Jesper Svensson

Jesper Svensson began 2024 ranked 282nd in the world, but in a brilliant first season on the DP World Tour he won the Porsche Singapore Classic, was a runner-up three times, and finished tenth on the Race to Dubai.

This ensured his place at The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush, along with his PGA Tour card.

At the Porsche Singapore Classic he fired a closing 63 and beat Kiradech Aphibarnrat at the third hole of their play-off. It came only three months after he was joint runner-up behind Dean Burmester at the Investec South African Open, only his second start as a full member of the tour after coming through the Challenge circuit. He then came second again at both the Bahrain Championship and Czech Masters.

Svensson played the first major of his career at last May’s PGA Championship, surviving the halfway cut and finishing joint 53rd, and then made his Open debut at Royal Troon.

He played college golf in North Carolina and represented Sweden in the 2017 and 2018 European amateur team championship.