ANNA
WHITELEYMEETS
KRISSTOFFER
BROBERG
The end of 2015 saw a career highlight for Sweden’s Kristoffer Broberg, who claimed his maiden
European tour victory in china at the BMW Masters. Recently on golfing world, I walked a hole with
him in Kuala Lumpur during the Eurasia Cup week, to find out what life is like in the winner’s circle.
A
nna: Kris, this is the first time we’ve
met you on golfing world so let’s
rewind a couple of years. You absolutely
stormed through the challenge tour in
2012, four wins that year propelling you
onto the European tour. What was it like
having that much success so early on in
your professional career?
Kristoffer: I played really good in the Nordic
league - had a good season and won a few
times in the league. So my confidence was
pretty high and then I got an invite to the
Finnish challenge - and I won that event.
Then I went to Norway, I’m familiar to
Norway and then I won there. I’d played
that course a lot of times on the Nordic
league so, it was pretty cool.
Anna: to win three tournaments in four
weeks is pretty unheard of. How much
confidence did that give you? It must have
made you think, this winning business
isn’t so hard!
I got a lot of confidence but the main tour
is a different level. The golf courses are so
much tougher. The courses I won on were
pretty short – a lot of wedges. I was pretty
hot with my wedges and the putter was
really hot for those few weeks and months.
So then moving over to the European
tour, how much expectation did you feel
to win in your first year?
Because you were so emotional. How
much did that mean to you and how did
it feel sinking that putt?
It was expectation that I’ve always got, I
want to win every week. It’s pretty tough
out there, you cannot win every week
because the players are pretty good but,
you can have a good week.
It means a lot. You know you work so hard
for that win and I’m just so happy for my
family who support me all my life and me
just, yeah very pleased to win there. I’ve
got no words to say I’m just so happy to
win.
And before you got that win at the end of
last year in china which was just terrific,
did it get to the point where you were
putting so much pressure on yourself to
earn it?
Yeah because the week before I went to
china, I didn’t want to go. I was home and
after turkey I just wanted to be home and
there was no expectation at all - just go to
china and find my putter. The short game
was amazing that week and here we are
now.
Do you almost think that was the
difference, the fact that you didn’t have
any expectation?
I think so, because every week Jon my
caddie says you need to think different
ways, you cannot win every week, you
need to relax a bit.
When you were in the playoff with Patrick
Reed what was going through your mind
at that point?
I’d won before in a play off, and he hit it
to the right, he started on the tee and I
thought here’s my chance if I hit a good
drive I’ve got a really good advantage
because he’s got a really tough shot from
there. He hit a fat second shot in the trap
and then I hit a perfect number with my 9
iron… and yeah!