In a Player Blog ahead of the Vierumäki Finnish Challenge supported by Finnish Golf Union 2025, three-time PGA TOUR winner Jonas Blixt reflects on his career victories, second place finish at The Masters and his return to the HotelPlanner Tour.
We all dream of playing on the PGA TOUR and I’ve been lucky enough to not only live that dream but also win out there. Sometimes things don’t work out as you would like them to, but I feel like I still have something left to give in this game. I haven’t been playing well recently, especially since my back surgery, but I know I can still play some good golf, and I want to explore that and give myself a chance at least for one more year.
Sports in general need development tours or leagues for players to develop and get better. For younger players who need conditioning and for more experience players who need a chance to drop back down and prove their worth.
The HotelPlanner Tour is so good for the game, and I think it produces better players which ultimately makes the game better to watch at the higher level. The Tour has improved so much since I first played on it in 2008. The level is so much higher and the experiences we get as players is fantastic.
I’ve always been a player who has been up and down with my form. I know that I will play well, I just don’t know when. I haven’t figured out the right formula for consistency which has been very difficult for me, but the highs have been special. The lows have put me in a difficult place, but you try and find things to grab on to and keep you coming back.
When I won on the PGA TOUR everything around me was in a good place. Sometimes the stars are aligned, and it just happens to be your week. At the time you expect to play that well every week but unfortunately that’s not the reality. I was also very good with my short game, putting and chipping, and a pretty good wedge player. I’ve lost my feel around the greens over the last few years.
The moment in my career that people talk about the most is when I finished second at The Masters in 2014, but the standout for me will always be my first win because I had my family and friends with me. I had dreamt about that moment since I was a kid, and I never even thought I could play on the PGA TOUR so to win on it was quite surreal. I grew up wanting to be a hockey player, but I got a lot worse at that and a lot better at golf.
In 2014 at The Masters, I remember being so focussed throughout. People have asked me about the back nine and I genuinely can’t remember any of it because I was so focussed on what I wanted to do. Augusta National is a very special place and it will always be a beautiful week for me.
The Ryder Cup became a realistic goal in 2014 as I had also finished finish fourth in the PGA Championship the year before, but it always felt so far away from me. Paul McGinley was the European Captain that year and he came to speak to me about it, but my form was just so up and down that year. If I was the Ryder Cup Captain, I wouldn’t pick myself because you just don’t know what you’re going to get.
I grew up watching the DP World Tour and I want to get my card back and ultimately win on that Tour. I've been close but never got it over the line and ultimately that it was is driving and motivating me to still play the game.
