Beatrice Wallin

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Beatrice Wallin
Personal information
Full nameVeronika Beatrice Wallin
NicknameBea
Born (1999-04-05) 5 April 1999 (age 24)
Olofstorp, Sweden
Height5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Sporting nationalityFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Residence Tallahassee, Florida
Career
College Florida State University
Turned professional2022
Professional wins1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship DNP
Women's PGA C'ship DNP
U.S. Women's Open CUT: 2020, 2023
Women's British Open DNP
Evian Championship DNP
Achievements and awards
ACC Golfer of the Year2021

Veronika Beatrice Wallin (born 5 April 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer. She won the 2016 Annika Invitational Europe and won the European Ladies' Team Championship in 2018, 2019 and 2020. [1]

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Early life and amateur career

Before focusing on golf Wallin was a swimmer, inspired by her father Christer Wallin who represented Sweden in the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics, winning silver medals in Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta (1996). [2]

Wallin joined the National Team in 2016 and was part of a golden era of Swedish success in European team championships. Her teams, which often included Linn Grant, Frida Kinhult, Amanda Linnér, Ingrid Lindblad and Maja Stark, was runner-up at the 2016 European Girls' Team Championship and won in 2017. They then went on to win the European Ladies' Team Championship in 2018, 2019 and 2020, and finished runner-up in 2021. She is attached to Hills Golf Club in Mölndal, close to Gothenburg, Sweden. [3]

Wallin represented Sweden at the 2017 World Junior Girls Championship in Canada, and at The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship in 2019 with Maja Stark.

Individually, Wallin finished 4th at the 2015 Annika Invitational Europe and won the event in 2016, which helped her qualify for the European teams at the 2016 Junior Ryder Cup and the 2017 Junior Solheim Cup. She was runner-up at the 2016 French International Ladies Amateur Championship (Trophée Cecile de Rothschild) and the 2017 French International Lady Juniors Amateur Championship (Trophée Esmond), and 3rd at the 2017 Portuguese Ladies Amateur. [1]

Wallin accepted a golf scholarship to Florida State University and started playing with the Florida State Seminoles women's golf team in the fall of 2018. [4] In 2021, she won two tournaments and was named Atlantic Coast Conference Golfer of the Year. [5] [6] In 2022, she became the first player in FSU women's golf history to win an NCAA regional outright, shooting 6-under par over the three-round event to beat Florida Atlantic's Letizia Bagnoli by one stroke. [2] She became just the second four-time All-American in school history, after earning All-American Mention honors in 2019 and 2020, and All-American First-Team honors in 2021 and 2022. [7]

Wallin played in the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur in 2019, finishing 7th, and finished 10th at the 2021 installment, 3 strokes behind winner Tsubasa Kajitani of Japan. [8] In 2022, she finished tied 4th, two strokes behind winner Anna Davis.

In the summer of 2020, Wallin was runner-up in three professional tournaments on the 2020 Swedish Golf Tour, the GolfUppsala Open and the Didriksons Skaftö Open behind Ingrid Lindblad, and the Golfhäftet Masters behind Linn Grant. [9]

She was invited to play in the 2020 U.S. Women's Open by virtue of her World Amateur Golf Ranking, which peaked at 4th. [10]

Wallin played in the 2021 Arnold Palmer Cup with a 3–1 individual record. She finished 4th at the 2021 European Ladies Amateur, and finished 5th at the 2021 Didriksons Skaftö Open, a Ladies European Tour event.

Professional career

Wallin finished the eight-round 2021 LPGA Tour Q-Series tied at 60th, five shots short of a full LPGA card, but with Epson Tour status. She waited until after her graduation at the end of the 2022 spring semester to turn professional. [11]

Amateur wins

Sources: [9] [1]

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament2020202120222023
Chevron Championship
Women's PGA Championship
U.S. Women's Open CUTCUT
The Evian Championship NT
Women's British Open
  Did not play

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

Team appearances

Amateur

Source: [12] [13]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Family reunion makes Beatrice Wallin's home Florida State golf finale extra special". Tallahassee Democrat. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  3. ↑ "National Team Roster: Beatrice Wallin". Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "Women's Golf Roster: Beatrice Wallin". Florida State Seminoles. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "Women's college golf player of the week: Beatrice Wallin, Florida State". Golfweek. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  6. ↑ "Florida State's Beatrice Wallin Headlines 2021 All-ACC Women's Golf Team". Atlantic Coast Conference. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "W. Golf: Wallin Earns First-Team All-American Honors". Florida State University. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "Beatrice Wallin Biography". Augusta National Women's Amateur. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  9. 1 2 "Beatrice Wallin Player Profile". Golfdata. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  10. ↑ "Player Bio: Beatrice Wallin". USGA. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  11. ↑ "Beatrice Wallin's Epson Tour gamble could set up a magical spring at Florida State". Golfweek. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  12. ↑ "European Team Championships". European Golf Association.
  13. ↑ "International matches". European Golf Association.
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