Fully recovered from the ankle break which marred his 2003 season, Haeggman enjoyed a superb 2004, the highlight coming when he won the Qatar Masters in March before he shared third place in the Deutsche Bank Players’ Championship of Europe and finished outright third in the PGA Championship at Wentworth Club. It was form which pushed him to the fringes of automatic qualification for Europe’s Ryder Cup Team but, when he came up just short, he once again fulfilled a vital role in Bernhard Langer’s backroom team, as he had done for Sam Torrance at The De Vere Belfry in 2002. The ankle break, in December 2002, was the second time in his career that he had been forced out of action after injuring himself playing ice hockey with friends.

He was out of the game for nearly two years following an accident in 1994 which left him with a dislocated shoulder and broken ribs, an injury which effectively deprived him of the chance to retain his Ryder Cup berth, having become the first Swede to play in the Matches at The De Vere Belfry in 1993. Took up golf at age ten when parents sent him for personal tuition. Specialises in trick shots in golf clinics, which makes him in great demand for company days. Equalled world record of 27 shots for nine holes in the Alfred Dunhill Cup at St Andrews in 1997.