Lina Boqvist

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Lina Boqvist
Personal information
Born (1991-05-25) 25 May 1991 (age 30)
Gislaved, Sweden
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Sporting nationality Sweden
ResidenceGislaved, Sweden
Career
Turned professional2010
Current tour(s)LET (joined 2015)
Former tour(s)LET Access Series
Swedish Golf Tour (joined 2011)
Professional wins3
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA InspirationDNP
Women's PGA C'shipDNP
U.S. Women's OpenDNP
Women's British OpenT47: 2016
Evian ChampionshipDNP
Achievements and awards
Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit2013

Lina Boqvist (born 25 May 1991) is a Swedish professional golfer and member of the Ladies European Tour. In 2021 she won the Aramco Team Series – New York teamed with Jessica Korda and Karolin Lampert.[1]

Career[]

Boqvist was born in 1991 in Gislaved, Småland, and learned the game at Isaberg Golf Club, home to the Gisvaled Ladies Open on the 1989 Ladies European Tour. As a junior, she collected multiple titles on the Skandia Tour and the Junior Masters Invitational series.[2]

Boqvist turned professional ahead of the 2011 season and joined the Swedish Golf Tour, where she won the 2012 Swedish Matchplay Championship. Defending her title in 2013 she lost the final to Anjelika Hammar, but the runner-up finish helped her win the 2013 Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit. She joined the 2014 LET Access Series and with a victory in the she ended the season runner-up on the Order of Merit, earning her a card for the Ladies European Tour in 2015.

In her rookie season on the LET she made 12 appearances and finished 44th on the order of merit. Her best result of the 2015 season was a tie for third at Tipsport Golf Masters in the Czech Republic, three strokes behind Hannah Burke.[3]

Boqvist made the cut in her first major appearance. She finished T47 in the 2016 Women's British Open at Woburn Golf and Country Club after qualifying by rising to 23rd on the LET money list, helped by a top ten at the Lalla Meryem Cup.[1] She qualified as one of the five reserves for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[4]

She finished fifth at the 2018 European Golf Team Championships - Mixed team together with Per Längfors, Johan Edfors and Emma Nilsson, two strokes away from the bronze medal playoff.[5]

In 2019 Boqvist was runner-up at the Lalla Meryem Cup and moved up to fifth on the Order of Merit.[6] She shot a career low round of 66 and finished the tournament tied for second to Nuria Iturrioz after they started the final round tied at 10-under.[7] She finished the 2019 season 11th on the Order of Merit.[8]

In 2021 she clinched her first LET victory in the team event at the Aramco Team Series – New York, teamed with Jessica Korda, Karolin Lampert and amateur Alexandra O'Laughlin, a Golf Channel reporter.[9] After starting the day two strokes behind the overnight leaders, the team produced a solid round to finish with a total of 41-under-par forcing a playoff with the team captained by Sophia Popov.[10]

Amateur wins[]

  • 2006 (1) Skandia Tour Småland #1
  • 2008 (2) Skandia Tour Riks #6 - Skåne, Varberg Junior Open
  • 2009 (3) Patrik Sjöland Junior Open, Varberg Junior Open, Skandia Tour Riks #8 - Halland
  • 2010 (3) Gräppås Junior Open, Skandia Tour elit flickor #5, Junior Masters Invitational

Professional wins (3)[]

LET Access Series (1)[]

No. Date Tournament Winning
score 		To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 23 Aug 2014 72-69-69=210 −6 Playoff Sweden Lynn Carlsson

Swedish Golf Tour (2)[]

  • 2012 Swedish Matchplay Championship
  • 2017

Results in LPGA majors[]

Tournament 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
ANA Inspiration
Women's PGA Championship
U.S. Women's Open
Women's British Open T47 CUT CUT CUT
The Evian Championship NT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied for place

Team appearances[]

Professional

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Lina Boqvist Player Profile". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Lina Boqvist". Golfdata. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  3. ^ LET 2015 Order of Merit, Ladies European Tour, accessed 14 August 2016
  4. ^ Olympic Reserves - Women, International Golf Federation, accessed 14 August 2016
  5. ^ "Ice-cool Iceland win gold in mixed event". PGA European Tour. 11 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Nuria Iturrios earns second LET victory at Lalla Meryem Cup". LET. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Lina Boqvist leads Lalla Meryem Cup after Career Low Round". LET. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  8. ^ "2019 Costa del Sol Order of Merit". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  9. ^ "Lina Boqvist vinnare på LET – i New York" (in Swedish). Svensk Golf. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  10. ^ "Team Jessica Korda Triumph In Playoff As Hull Wins Individual Title In New York". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 18 October 2021.

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