Per Göran Nyman (born 3 May 1974) is a
Swedish professional golfer.
Nyman was born in
Växjö
Växjö () is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden. It had 71,282 inhabitants (2020) out of a Municipalities of Sweden, municipal population of 97,349 (2024). It is the administrative, cultural, and industrial ce ...
. An
ice hockey
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goal minder from the age of four, he began playing golf as a 13-year-old because he lived near the Växjö Golf Course, where he looked up to
European Tour
The European Tour, currently titled as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons, and legally the PGA European Tour or the European Tour Group, is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European ...
professional
Klas Eriksson
Klas Eriksson (born 30 July 1971) is a Swedish professional golfer.
Eriksson was born in Växjö and turned professional in 1991 having won the European Amateur and the French Amateur Stoke Play Championship the previous year. He finished 45th on ...
. Nyman claimed his second
Challenge Tour
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victory when he won the
Rotterdam International Open in September 2005.
Hickory career
After retiring from the tours, he started playing a lot of
hickory golf
Hickory golf is a variation of golf played with hickory-shafted golf clubs. In the United States the main organizing body is thSociety of Hickory Golfers(SoHG); in Canada, thGolf Historical Society of Canada in the U.K., thBritish Golf Collectors ...
.
Professional wins (4)
Challenge Tour wins (2)
Challenge Tour playoff record (1–0)
Nordic Golf League wins (2)
References
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Swedish male golfers
European Tour golfers
Sportspeople from Växjö
1975 births
Living people