Golf API – Accented Characters in Player Names

We've added support for accented characters (diacritical marks) in all golfer names across our Golf API. Player names are now returned with full Unicode (UTF-8) encoding, so characters like å, é, ñ, and ü appear correctly wherever a name is used.

For example, Ludvig Aberg is now returned as Ludvig Åberg in every instance his name appears. See the samples below.

⭐ Benefit

Use these updated names to show players' names correctly wherever they appear in your application.

📋 Recommended Actions

Verify your application, database, and any downstream systems handle UTF-8 encoding so accented characters render correctly rather than as garbled text (e.g., Ã…berg).
Review any exact-string matching or search logic on player names, since names that were previously plain ASCII may now include diacritical marks.
Update cached or stored player names to pick up the corrected spellings.

☑️ Sample Requests:

Players Endpoint

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/golf/trial/pga/v3/en/2026/players/profiles.json \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

🔢 Products

Sport	Product	Version(s)
Golf	Golf API	v3, v2

🔁 Endpoints Affected

All Golf API endpoints

⚙️ Return Samples

<player id="4fff3b28-5c2e-4ec3-91d1-696f42638cf4" first_name="Ludvig" last_name="Åberg" height="75" weight="190" birthday="1999-10-31T00:00:00+00:00" country="SWEDEN" residence="Lubbock, TX, USA" birth_place="Eslov,, SWE" college="Texas Tech" turned_pro="2023" member="false" updated="2026-07-23T15:56:27+00:00" handedness="R" abbr_name="L.Åberg" name="Åberg, Ludvig" gender="male"/>

<player id="5d426996-c822-4ea4-a889-808b6de86137" first_name="José María" last_name="Olazábal" height="70" weight="160" birthday="1966-02-05T00:00:00+00:00" country="SPAIN" residence="Fuenterrabia,, ESP" birth_place="Fuenterrabia,, ESP" turned_pro="1985" member="false" updated="2026-07-23T16:34:51+00:00" handedness="R" abbr_name="J.Olazábal" name="Olazábal, José María" gender="male"/>

<player id="c035de63-4cdd-4cd9-91bc-32a747c05e4a" first_name="Sami" last_name="Välimäki" height="74" birthday="1998-07-15T00:00:00+00:00" country="FINLAND" birth_place="Nokia,, FIN" turned_pro="2019" member="false" updated="2026-07-23T16:38:07+00:00" handedness="R" abbr_name="S.Välimäki" name="Välimäki, Sami" gender="male"/>

{
"id": "4fff3b28-5c2e-4ec3-91d1-696f42638cf4",
"first_name": "Ludvig",
"last_name": "Åberg",
"height": 75,
"weight": 190,
"birthday": "1999-10-31T00:00:00+00:00",
"country": "SWEDEN",
"residence": "Lubbock, TX, USA",
"birth_place": "Eslov,, SWE",
"college": "Texas Tech",
"turned_pro": 2023,
"member": false,
"updated": "2026-07-23T15:56:27+00:00",
"handedness": "R",
"abbr_name": "L.Åberg",
"name": "Åberg, Ludvig",
"gender": "male"
},
{
"id": "c7da50f3-df80-4cb0-bf07-c1c99b3f4926",
"first_name": "Augusto",
"last_name": "Núñez",
"height": 70,
"weight": 185,
"birthday": "1992-11-03T00:00:00+00:00",
"country": "ARGENTINA",
"residence": "Buenos Aires,, ARG",
"birth_place": "Yerba Buena,, ARG",
"turned_pro": 2012,
"member": false,
"updated": "2026-07-23T16:42:13+00:00",
"handedness": "R",
"abbr_name": "A.Núñez",
"name": "Núñez, Augusto",
"gender": "male"
},
{
"id": "c48801ae-0cc1-4e99-876e-5db84ec5ad89",
"first_name": "Francisco",
"last_name": "Bidé",
"birthday": "1987-07-06T00:00:00+00:00",
"country": "ARGENTINA",
"member": false,
"updated": "2026-07-23T16:38:45+00:00",
"handedness": "R",
"abbr_name": "F.Bidé",
"name": "Bidé, Francisco",
"gender": "male"
},
...