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The Real Deal: LSU Men's Golf Star Árni Sveinsson Joins The Show

Hey Fightin' Podcast Network: The Official Podcast Network of LSU Sports

LSU Sports

Sports

4.9537 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Coming off what many believe was the best freshman year in the country, Árni Sveinsson was firing on all cylinders this fall to begin his sophomore campaign with an individual title at the Fallen Oak Collegiate Invitational and two SEC Player of the Week honors in LSU's three tournament wins as a team. Watch the interview on LSU Plus.

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0:00.0

On July 1st, we didn't ask you can profit off name, image, and lightning.

0:09.8

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to another episode of the Real Deal podcast.

0:16.9

I'm your host, Jamar Lincoln, Assistant Director of NIL, and we got us another special guest with us this afternoon.

0:22.7

He's a sophomore golfer for the LSU Tigers.

0:25.5

Prior to LSU in 2023, he represented Team Iceland in the European Boys Championship.

0:31.0

As a freshman at LSU, he made an immediate impact with a 70-stroke average, which was third best in school history, and 27 rounds at par or better.

0:39.6

His efforts earned him SEC freshman team and second team, all-SECC, G-C-A-A-Ping, All-Southies

0:46.2

Region, All-American Team, Arnold Palmer Cup International Team as well.

0:50.6

He also won the Blessings Intercollegiate Tournament at 7 under par with a total score of

0:55.1

209. He's also ranked 9th in the world amateur golf rankings from Garda Bear, Iceland. Ladies

1:02.4

and gentlemen, Mr. Arnie, Svincen. Yeah. There we go. How are we doing, Arne? Good, good. I'm well.

1:10.0

Good pronunciation on your homeland?

1:11.5

Pretty good, yeah. Decent for someone that's not from there. American, right? Yeah. I mean, we worked on about 20 minutes before. It did. So we're good. But, Arnie, I mean, jumping into it, I mean, golf is such a growing sport and everything. now you got full swing

1:27.1

the Netflix docu series on

1:29.7

that's going on for now season two probably going to be renewed for a third season but for you

1:34.9

in college i mean you have idols and people you strive to be with who is a golfer that you'd like

1:41.4

to play a 18 with 18 rounds.

1:44.4

Yeah.

1:45.0

It's a good question.

1:46.9

And why?

1:48.2

The obvious one, I think probably most people from my generation will say Tiger Woods

1:53.2

just because all of his knowledge, what he's done for the game.

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