Björn Hellgren

Adam Lasse Björn Hellgren (born 21 November 1990) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the Asian Tour and LIV Golf League. He won the 2025 Saudi Open.

Early life and amateur career Hellgren was born in 1990 in Västerås. He played ice hockey on one of Sweden's premier teams until he was 15 years old, when he focused on golf.

Professional career Hellgren left college after two years and turned professional in 2013, after the European Amateur Championship in August. He joined the Nordea Tour and won the first tournament he started in as a professional, the Landeryd Masters. In April 2014, he won the Black Mountain Invitational in Thailand and joined the Nordic Golf League (NGL). He got up, dusted himself off, and won the match, won the tournament, and topped the 2015 Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit.

Challenge Tour In 2016, he won the Swedish Golf Tour's Winter Series opener, the Lumine Lakes Open in Spain. At the European Tour's Nordea Masters in June, he finished tied 4th, along with Henrik Stenson, for the biggest paycheck of his career. As a result, he played the rest of the season on the Challenge Tour, where his best finish was a solo 6th place at the Vierumäki Finnish Challenge. On the 2017 Challenge Tour, his best finish was a T10 at the Volopa Irish Challenge. In 2018, he failed to make an impact, and was back on the NGL for the 2019 season.

In 2020, Hellgren was back on the Challenge Tour, and recorded a T5 at the Northern Ireland Open. In 2021, he narrowly missed out on his first Challenge Tour title after two opening rounds of 65, as he lost a playoff at the Dormy Open to Félix Mory of France.

Asian Tour In January 2020, Hellgren joined the Asian Tour after finishing tied 9th at Q-School, but only competed in one event, the Bandar Malaysia Open, before play was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He returned in November 2021 when the 2020–21–22 Asian Tour resumed. Hellgren played in 5 of the season's 8 tournaments, making each cut, and finished 57th on the Order of Merit.

Hellgren climbed to 41st in the Order of Merit on the 2022 Asian Tour, with a tie for 3rd at the Yeangder TPC in Taiwan his best result, and topped the driving distance stats at 313.62 yards. In 2024 he recorded four top-10 finishes, including a T7 at the International Series Thailand, and ended the season 31st in the Order of Merit.

Hellgren secured his maiden Asian Tour title at the 2025 season finale, the Saudi Open. With the win, he climbed to 6th place in the final 2025 Order of Merit and received a bye into the second round of the LIV Golf promotions event in Florida, where he finished top-3 to earn a place on the 2026 LIV Golf League. In his first 10 starts on LIV, where his best finish was a tied 17th at LIV Golf UK, he collected more winnings than in his previous 10 seasons on the Challenge Tour and Asian Tour combined.

On the 2026 Asian Tour, he finished top-10 at the Singapore Open.

Amateur wins 2008 Sura Open 2009 Skandia Tour Elit #5 2010 Skandia Tour Elit #5, Skandia Tour Elit #6

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Professional wins (8) Asian Tour wins (1)

Nordic Golf League wins (4)

Swedish Golf Tour wins (3)

Playoff record Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1)