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Anders Gunnar Vilhelm Forsbrand (born 1 April 1961) is a Swedish professional golfer who formerly competed on the European Tour.
Forsbrand won the unofficial 1977 Swedish Youth Championship, Colgate Cup, at his age level (16 years old).
He represented Sweden at the 1981 European Amateur Team Championship at the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland. It earned some attention that Forsbrand, in a playoff against Ian Hutcheon, Scotland, hooked his drive, on the first hole on the Old Course, over the 18th fairway out of bounds in to the town.
His first professional win was the 1982 Swedish PGA Championship, at the time the most important domestic pro tournament before the Swedish Golf Tour was founded two years later.
He played on the European Tour from 1982 until 2003. In 1987, he became the first Swede to win a stroke-play tournament on the European Tour. He won six individual titles on the European Tour and finished in the top 25 of the Vardon Trophy seven times, with a best of fourth place in 1992. In 1993, he became the first Swedish golfer to play in all four major championships in the same year.
Forsbrand led Sweden to victories in the two most prestigious professional nation team tournaments, the World Cup and the Dunhill Cup, within three weeks in October and November 1991. Together with Per-Ulrik Johansson, he was close to defend the 1991 World Cup title from Rome for Sweden in 1992 in Madrid, but the Swedish team finished second, one shot behind the United States team of Fred Couples and Davis Love III. Forsbrand finished third individually both in 1991 and 1992 (tied).
At the 1994 Open Championship, he shot 130 over the final two rounds and tied for fourth, a finish which was overshadowed in Swedish media by Jesper Parnevik's second place.
Forsbrand finished in the top 13 of the European Tour Order of Merit four times but made the European Ryder Cup team; his best year (1992, when he finished fourth) was not a Ryder Cup year and he could not continue his good form until the selection of the team the year after. Despite this, in 2004 Bernhard Langer named Forsbrand as his vice-captain for the 35th Ryder Cup Matches against the United States at Oakland Hills Country Club, Michigan, U.S., in which the European team had a resounding victory over the U.S. team.
Forsbrand began playing on the European Senior Tour after turning 50 in 2011. In August 2012, he won the SSE Scottish Senior Open, becoming the first Swede to win on the European Senior Tour.
| 1 | 6 Sep 1987 | Ebel European Masters Swiss Open | −25 (71-64-66-62=263) | 3 strokes | Mark Mouland |
| 2 | 31 Mar 1991 | Volvo Open di Firenze | −14 (71-72-66-65=274) | 1 stroke | Barry Lane |
| 3 | 29 Mar 1992 | Volvo Open di Firenze (2) | −13 (69-69-67-66=271) | 1 stroke | Peter Senior |
| 4 | 26 Apr 1992 | Credit Lyonnais Cannes Open | −15 (65-70-68-70=273) | 1 stroke | Per-Ulrik Johansson |
| 5 | 23 Jan 1994 | Moroccan Open | −12 (70-68-69-69=276) | 4 strokes | Howard Clark |
| 6 | 8 Oct 1995 | Mercedes German Masters | −24 (64-64-67-69=264) | 2 strokes | Bernhard Langer |
European Tour playoff record (0–3)
| 1 | 1992 | BMW International Open | Paul Azinger, Glen Day, Mark James, Bernhard Langer | Azinger won with birdie on first extra hole |
| 2 | 1992 | Canon European Masters | Jamie Spence | Lost to birdie on second extra hole |
| 3 | 1993 | Scandinavian Masters | Peter Baker | Lost to par on second extra hole |
| 1 | 11 Aug 1984 | Swedish International Stroke Play Championship | −9 (69-71-71-68=279) | 5 strokes | Peter Hamblett |
| 2 | 18 Aug 1984 | Gevalia Open | −8 (72-71-64-71=278) | 4 strokes | Claes Hultman |
| 1 | 22 Aug 1982 | Swedish PGA Championship | +5 (76-73-71-73=293) | 4 strokes | Per-Arne Brostedt, John Cockin |
| 2 | 19 Sep 1983 | Stiab GP | 3 and 1 | Göran Knutsson | |
| 3 | 3 Nov 1991 | World Cup (with Per-Ulrik Johansson) | −13 (142-148-134-139=563) | 1 stroke | − Phillip Price and Ian Woosnam |
| 4 | 10 Nov 1991 | Benson & Hedges Trophy (with Helen Alfredsson) | −13 (73-66-68-68=275) | 2 strokes | Penny Grice-Whittaker and Malcolm MacKenzie, Bryan Norton and Pearl Sinn |
| 5 | 15 Sep 1992 | Equity & Law Challenge | 20 points | 3 points | Russell Claydon |
| 6 | 12 Oct 1997 | Open Novotel Perrier (with Michael Jonzon) | −12 (75-74-64-140=343) | Playoff | Santiago Luna and José Rivero |
| 1 | 19 Aug 2012 | SSE Scottish Senior Open | −17 (66-66-67=199) | 1 stroke | Philip Golding |
| Masters Tournament | T11 | CUT | |||||||||||
| U.S. Open | T33 | CUT | T32 | ||||||||||
| The Open Championship | CUT | T8 | T16 | T29 | CUT | T38 | T34 | CUT | T4 | T49 | CUT | ||
| PGA Championship | T9 | CUT | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1984 Open Championship)
"T" indicates a tie for a place
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