Louise Rydqvist

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Louise Rydqvist
Personal information
Born (2001-07-18) 18 July 2001 (age 23)
Värnamo, Sweden
Sporting nationalityFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Residence Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
Career
College University of South Carolina
StatusAmateur
Professional wins1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship DNP
Women's PGA C'ship DNP
U.S. Women's Open DNP
Women's British Open T60: 2024
Evian Championship DNP
Achievements and awards
Swedish Golf Tour
Order of Merit 		2020
Edith Cummings Munson Award 2024

Louise Rydqvist (born 18 July 2001) is a Swedish amateur golfer. She won the 2022 Espirito Santo Trophy and the 2024 European Ladies Amateur, and was runner-up at The Womens Amateur Championship in 2022. [1]

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Amateur career

Rydqvist joined the national team in 2017 and competed at the European Girls' Team Championship twice, winning the bronze on home soil in 2018. [2] [3] In 2019, she played in the Junior Golf World Cup in Japan and the World Junior Girls Championship in Canada. She came close to winning her first international title at the 2018 Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship at Roganstown Golf & Country Club, where she was runner-up one shot behind her compatriot Kajsa Arwefjäll. [4] In 2019 she finished tied 3rd at the same event. [5]

Rydqvist graduated from Filbornaskolan Riksidrottsgymnasium Golf in Helsingborg and accepted an athletic scholarship to the University of South Carolina, where she started playing with the South Carolina Gamecocks women's golf team in the fall of 2021. [6] She was named All-American in her freshman year. [7] As a junior, Rydqvist was runner-up at both the SEC Championship and the NCAA Auburn Regional, and lead South Carolina with a 71.14 scoring average, their third-lowest season score on record. She was named a First Team WGCA All-American, and received the Edith Cummings Munson Award. [8]

In 2020, Rydqvist played on the Swedish Golf Tour where she shared the Order of Merit title with Line Toft Hansen, after winning the Johannesberg Ladies Open and finishing runner-up at the Allerum Open a stroke behind Sara Kjellker.

In 2022, Rydqvist was runner-up at The Womens Amateur Championship, beaten 4 and 3 by Jess Baker in the final, and played on the winning Swedish team in the Espirito Santo Trophy at Le Golf National in France together with Ingrid Lindblad and Meja Örtengren. [9]

After winning the 2023 Annika Intercollegiate, Rydqvist received a sponsor's invite to The Annika, her first LPGA Tour event, where she made the cut and finished tied 46th. [10] In 2024, she was the only female amateur to make the cut at the Scandinavian Mixed. [11]

Rydqvist won the 2024 European Ladies Amateur three strokes ahead of Andrea Revuelta of Spain, earning a spot at the 2024 Women's British Open at the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland. [12]

Amateur wins

Source: [13] [14]

Professional wins (1)

Swedish Golf Tour (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning
score		To parMargin
of victory		Runners-up
19 Sep 2020 Johannesberg Ladies Open^
(as an amateur)		71-70=141−32 strokes Flag of Sweden.svg Kajsa Arwefjäll (a)
Flag of Sweden.svg Linda Lundqvist
Flag of Sweden.svg Anna Magnusson

^Shortened to 36 holes due to adverse weather conditions

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament2024
Chevron Championship
U.S. Women's Open
Women's PGA Championship
The Evian Championship
Women's British Open T60
  Did not play

T = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

Source: [14]

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  6. ↑ "Women's Golf Roster: Louise Rydqvist". South Carolina Gamecocks. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
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  8. ↑ "Louise Rydqvist Named Recipient of the 2024 Edith Cummings Munson Golf Award". Women's Golf Coaches Association. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  9. ↑ "Sweden wins Women's World Amateur Team Championship". Amateur Golf. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
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