[1] Representing the Swedish National Team, Olsson collected medals both in European and World championships.

He also finished forth at the 1996 European Youths' Team Championship in Madeira, while at the 1996 Eisenhower Trophy, the Swedish team, with Olsson, Martin Erlandsson, Chris Hanell and Leif Westerberg, earned the silver medal.

[2] Olsson won the Motoman Robotics Open on the Swedish Golf Tour in May 1996 while still an amateur, but the crowning achievement of his amateur career was to win the 1996 European Amateur in August on home turf at Karlstad Golf Club, in a field that included future European Tour winners Søren Hansen, Peter Lawrie, Henrik Stenson and defending European champion Sergio García.

The win earned Olsson an invitation to the 125th Open Championship at Royal Troon Golf Club in 1997.

[4] The British press noted that, curiously, his fellow countrymen Dennis Edlund and Pierre Fulke also made hole in ones in the same tournament.