Julia Boland | |
---|---|
Personal information | |
Full name | Julia Elisabeth Boland |
Born | Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia | 26 November 1985
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
Sporting nationality | Australia |
Career | |
College | University of Sydney Texas A&M |
Turned professional | 2011 |
Current tour(s) | ALPG Tour |
Former tour(s) | Symetra Tour LPGA Tour |
Professional wins | 1 |
Number of wins by tour | |
Epson Tour | 1 |
Best results in LPGA major championships | |
Chevron Championship | DNP |
Women's PGA C'ship | CUT: 2013, 2014 |
U.S. Women's Open | DNP |
Women's British Open | DNP |
Evian Championship | DNP |
Julia Elisabeth Boland (born 26 November 1985) is an Australian professional golfer. She graduated to the LPGA Tour after finishing 8th in the 2012 Symetra Tour. [1]
Boland was born in Tamworth, New South Wales and is the youngest of four children. She studied at the University of Sydney while playing for the NSW team and the Australian Amateur team. She won the 2009 Australian Women's Amateur Stroke Play Championship. After winning the Karrie Webb Series [2] she joined the Texas A&M Aggies. She played a lone season in College Station and recorded three victories for the Aggies. She was an All-Big 12 selection and was named Newcomer of the Year in 2010. In her rookie season on the Symetra Tour in 2012, she won the Four Winds Invitational in August and finished eighth on the money list to earn her LPGA Tour card for 2013.
In March 2018, Boland was elected as President of the ALPG (Australia Ladies Professional Golf) [3]
Amateur
Karrie Anne Webb is an Australian professional golfer. She plays mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour, and also turns out once or twice a year on the ALPG Tour in her home country. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame. She has 41 wins on the LPGA Tour, more than any other active player.
Rachel Hetherington is an Australian professional golfer playing on the American LPGA Tour. Hetherington played under her married name, Rachel Teske, from 2001 to 2004.
The Women's Australian Open is a women's professional golf tournament played in Australia, operated by Golf Australia and the WPGA Tour of Australasia, long co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET). Beginning with the 2012 event, it is also co-sanctioned by the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. In 2008, it was the second-richest women's golf tournament on the ALPG Tour, with a prize fund of A$500,000, and was raised to A$600,000 in 2010. With the co-sanctioning by the LPGA, the total purse was nearly doubled, and was also fixed in U.S. dollars. The purse was US$1.1 million in 2012, and increased again to its current level of US$1.2 million for 2013. Since 2011, the tournament's name has been the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open.
Jiyai Shin is a former world No. 1 ranked South Korean professional golfer who primarily plays on the LPGA of Japan Tour. She previously played primarily on the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Korea Tour (KLPGA). She has broken existing KLPGA records, winning 10 events in 19 starts on the KLPGA Tour in 2007. In 2008, playing only 10 tournaments on the LPGA Tour as a non-member, she won three events, including the Women's British Open and the ADT Championship. She has been ranked No. 1 in the Women's World Golf Rankings for 25 weeks and was the first Asian to be ranked No. 1. With 64 wins worldwide on six different tours, she is the winningest Korean golfer, male or female, of all time.
Mardi Lunn is an Australian professional golfer. Her sister, Karen Lunn, is also a professional golfer.
Su-Hyun Oh is a South Korea-born Australian professional golfer. She became the number one ranked amateur in the world in October 2013.
Dottie Ardina is a Filipino professional golfer.
Sophia Popov is a German professional golfer.
Céline Boutier is a French professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. She has multiple wins on both tours including one major, the 2023 Evian Championship.
Hannah Green is an Australian professional golfer and winner of the 2019 Women's PGA Championship.
Gemma Dryburgh is a Scottish professional golfer.
Sarah Kemp is an Australian professional golfer. She has played on the LPGA Tour, Ladies European Tour (LET) and ALPG Tour.
Gabriela Ruffels is an Australian former tennis player and current professional golfer. Starting at the age of eight, Ruffels started playing tennis and won twenty one International Tennis Federation doubles events in Europe. She also was the number one ranking Australian junior when she was twelve. After switching from tennis to golf in 2015, Ruffels primarily competed in Australia from 2016 to 2017. In 2018, Ruffels joined the USC Trojans women's golf team at the University of Southern California. With USC, Ruffels appeared at the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships from 2018 to 2019 in both the individual and team events.
Vikki Laing is a Scottish professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based Futures Tour and the Ladies European Tour (LET), finishing 10th in the 2010 LET rankings.
Perrine Delacour is a French professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour.
Laura Gonzalez Escallon is a professional golfer from Belgium who has played on the LPGA Tour and the Symetra Tour.
Loraine Lambert is a retired Australian professional golfer who played on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. She won the Air France Madame Open in 1997.
Dewi Weber is a Dutch professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour.
Grace Kim is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She won the TPS Sydney on the ALPG Tour in 2021 and 2022. As an amateur, she won the Australian Girls' Amateur, Australian Women's Amateur and the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.
Karis Davidson is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. In 2022, she won the WPGA Melbourne International, and in 2018 she was runner-up at the Women's Victorian Open, a Ladies European Tour event.