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Hugo Townsend
Personal information
Full nameHugo Austin Townsend
Born (1999-01-18) 18 January 1999 (age 25)
Mountain West
Golfer of the Year		2021, 2022

Hugo Austin Townsend (born 18 January 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer. He earned co-medalist honors in stroke play at the 2021

U.S. Amateur and was runner-up at the 2022 European Amateur Team Championship
.

Early life and amateur career

Townsend was born in

Dublin, Ireland. He grew up in Boden, Sweden where he moved at age 6 with his family, his Swedish mother Sofia and his English father Peter Townsend, a former PGA Tour golfer and two-time Ryder Cup player.[1]

Townsend showed a talent for golf early, winning 16 tournaments and recording 11 runner-up finishes on the regional junior circuits between 2012 and 2015, becoming the top ranked player in Sweden for his age group. He won the 2012 Skandia Cup national final by 18 strokes ahead of David Nyfjäll in second.[2]

Townsend was a member of the Swedish National Team from 2016 to 2018, and helped lead the team to a fourth-place finish at the European Boys' Team Championship at La Manga Club, Spain in the summer of 2017. In the semi-final, he lost his Sunday singles match to Oliver Hundebøll on the 19th hole.[3]

He appeared in the European Amateur Team Championship twice. He helped the team earn a silver medal in 2022 at Royal St George's Golf Club, England. Sweden lost in the final against and Spain, despite Townsend and David Nyfjäll beating Spain's David Puig and J.L. Ballester, 1 up, in the first foursome game.[4] At the same venue, Townsend's father Peter had finished tied 19th in the Open Championship 41 years earlier.[5]

Townsend accepted a scholarship to

All-American for the 2020–21 season. He was runner-up at the 2021 Mountain West Championship, after losing a playoff on the second hole.[6]

He earned co-medalist honors in stroke play and was the only European to reach the round of 16 at the 2021

U.S. Amateur, where he lost to Nick Gabrelcik on the 19th hole.[7] He represented the International team at the 2021 Arnold Palmer Cup held at Rich Harvest Farms in Illinois, where he tied his Sunday singles match with Sam Bennett
.

Townsend enrolled at the

Ole Miss Rebels men's golf team. He finished runner-up at the All-American Intercollegiate with an overall score of 210 (–6) to help his team win the tournament.[8] He was one of the top 25 golfers to be named by the foundation to the Haskins Award Watch List ahead of the 2022–23 season.[9]

Townsend played in the 2023

Stockholm, Sweden.[10]

Professional career

Townsend turned professional in June 2023, following the

Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed.[11] In his second start as a professional, he shot an eight under par second round of 64 to lead by a stroke at the half way point of the Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge in France.[12]

Amateur wins

  • 2011 Skandia Cup Riksfinal P13
  • 2012 NVGF Junior Tour #1, NVGF Junior Tour #2, NVGF Junior Tour #3, Skandia Cup Riksfinal P13
  • 2013 NVGF Junior Tour #1, NVGF Junior Tour #2, NVGF Junior Tour #4, NVGF Junior Tour Final
  • 2014 NVGF Junior Tour #1, NVGF Junior Tour #3, NVGF Junior Tour #4, NVGF Junior Tour #5, NVGF Junior Tour #6
  • 2015 NVGF Junior Tour #3, NVGF Junior Tour #4
  • 2021 Duck Invitational

Sources:[13][2]

Team appearances

Amateur

Source:[13]

References

  1. ^ Marshall, Ryan. "Boise State men's golf star Hugo Townsend aims for his best season yet". The Arbiter. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Hugo Townsend". Golfdata. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  3. ^ "European Boys' Team Championship". European Golf Association. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  4. ^ "European Amateur Team Championship". European Golf Association. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  5. ^ "Spain crowned European Amateur Team Champions". European Golf Association. 9 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Men's Golf Roster: Hugo Townsend". Boise State University Athletics. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  7. ^ Steffensen, Bo (13 August 2021). "Townsend utslagen – efter särspel". Svensk Golf (in Swedish). Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  8. ^ "Men's Golf Roster: Hugo Townsend". University of Mississippi. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  9. ^ "Ole Miss' Hugo Townsend named on 2022 Preseason Haskins Award Watch List". The Oxford Eagle. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  10. ^ "Player Profile Hugo Townsend". European Tour. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  11. ^ "Amatör från Boden storspelade på Ullna" (in Swedish). Nyheter24. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  12. ^ "Townsend storms into Le Vaudreuil lead". European Tour. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  13. ^ a b "Hugo Townsend". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 11 June 2023.

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