Westrup grew up in Åhus, Sweden before moving to Bærum, Norway at age 11 after her father, Charlie Westrup, was appointed head coach of the Norwegian Golf Federation.[1] At 16 she returned to Sweden to attend the Swedish National Golf Gymnasium in Perstorp, from which she graduated in 2005.[2]
Westrup attended Florida State University from 2005 to 2009, where she majored in sports management and recorded five wins in collegiate competition. She were a two-time NGCA All-American First Team selection and four-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Scholar-Athlete selection.[3] She competed in the NCAA Championships three times, in 2006 with her teammates and in 2007 and 2008 as an individual. Westrup was inducted into the FSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019, and the WGCA Hall of Fame in 2024.[4]
Amateur career
Westrup had a successful amateur career and was part of the Swedish national team from 2001, including the team that finished silver medalist at the 2002 European Girls' Team Championship in Turin. In 2002, she was third in strokeplay at the Girls Amateur Championship.
Representing Sweden, Westrup was the low individual scorer at the 2006Espirito Santo Trophy in Stellenbosch, South Africa, with a score of 8-under-par 280. The Swedish team finished tied with the host nation, but South Africa was declared the winner, since their third player had a lower score than Sweden's third player, in the third round. The initial tiebreaker, the final round non-counting score of the respective teams, was equal.[6][7]
Westrup turned professional after graduating in 2009, and made her professional debut at the Wales Ladies Championship of Europe on the Ladies European Tour (LET), earning her first paycheck finishing tied 40th. She spent 2010 on the Symetra Tour in the United States, and played on the LET in 2011 and 2012, before earning conditional status on the LPGA Tour in 2014.[9]
Westrup changed her citizenship to Norwegian in early 2015 in order to gain better access to sponsors and increase her chances to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1] Her first tournament representing Norway was the 2015 Gateway Classic near Phoenix, Arizona. She arrived in the US on her Swedish passport which unbeknownst to her automatically got cancelled once her application for Norwegian citizenship was successful. Stranded without a valid travel document she had to find her way to the Norwegian consulate in Houston to apply for a Norwegian passport.[10] She finished the Olympic Qualifications as a reserve, losing out to Suzann Pettersen and Marianne Skarpnord.[11]
Coaching career
Westrup retired from touring in 2018, after nine years on tour, and began as a golf coach at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.[12] In 2021, she became assistant coach at the University of Georgia, and in 2022 she was appointed head coach at the University of Missouri.[4]
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