A screeching alarm and bolted door are all that distinguish the dingy entrance to Swedish golf’s great talent factory. A motion sensor triggers the light switch inside the squat sports hall, illuminating a row of artificial grass matts pointed into cricket nets, each scattered with balls and besieged by scratches and scuff marks. The long, speckled mirrors offer an illusion of space but there is little to spare, with clubs stored underneath disused showers, while the floor in a small changing room has been layered with felt and converted into a putting green.
Filbornaskolan, a sports-specialised high school in Helsingborg, is one of the most prestigious in Sweden, but the wet winters and truncated daylight hours leave the golfers with little option but to spend
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