Anton Karlsson

Karl Oskar Anton Karlsson (born 11 September 1993) is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour. He won the 2020 RAM Cape Town Open on the Challenge Tour. His best finish on the European Tour was runner-up at the 2019 Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. Early life and amateur career Karlsson started playing golf in the year 2000, when his father enrolled him in the junior golf academy at Vassunda Golf Club, near his home town of Uppsala. Following his success on tour, the club later made him Honorary Member. Karlsson started competing on the junior circuits in 2007, and won his first of several titles on the Skandia Tour in his first season. He won the Vassunda Junior Open in the Junior Masters Invitational series in 2007 and 2012, and was runner-up in 2013 behind Adam Blommé, and again in 2014 when he lost a playoff to Viktor Jensen. In 2014, he won the Junior Masters Invitational season finale. As an amateur, he also won a professional event in the SGF Golf Ranking series.