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NAPLES, FLORIDA – FEBRUARY 15: Jesper Parnevik of Sweden looks on from the eighth hole during the … More second round of the Chubb Classic 2025 at Tiburon Golf Club on February 15, 2025 in Naples, Florida. (Photo by Brennan Asplen/Getty Images) Getty Images Jesper Parnevik, 60, currently competing on the PGA Tour Champions circuit, spent 38 weeks ranked among the world’s top 10 golfers around the turn of the century. During his heyday, he became as well known for his flamboyant fashion—an upturned baseball cap that unintentionally succeeded in turning the underside of the brim into fresh new real estate for sponsor branding—as for his play. The late, great sportswriter Dan Jenkins once described the Swedish fashionista who amassed 5 PGA Tour and 4 European tour victories, as “the last guy to climb out of the clown car” but the down-to-clown ballstriker’s unorthodox style statements belied a game that was all business underneath. His commitment to flair, fitness and fearless shot-making made him one of the most memorable—and effective—players of his generation. Parnevik’s trailblazing tendency has not faded with age. While on a flight to Miami, he struck up a conversation with a group of friends who were enroute to Albany, Bahamas to participate in a clinical trial led by Cellcolabs—a Solna based biotech focused on stem cell therapies. The mention of a clinic run by a company from his home country piqued the golfer’s interest. “I was impressed that first of all, it was a Swedish clinic and I was impressed with what they showed me and the talks I had with their doctors and scientists. That was the reason I went with Cellcolabs,” Parnevik, a self-described ‘research nerd,’ who as part of his due diligence met with doctors at a lab in the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm…

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