Michaela Finn

Last updated

Michaela Finn
Personal information
Born (1996-05-02) 2 May 1996 (age 26)
Ängelholm, Sweden
Sporting nationalityFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Career
College Kent State University
Turned professional2019
Current tour(s) Symetra Tour (joined 2020)
Professional wins1

Michaela Finn (born 2 May 1996) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the Symetra Tour. [1]

Contents

Early life and amateur career

Finn was born in Ängelholm in 1996 and started playing golf at 12. At 15, she was admitted to the Swedish National High School of Golf. [2]

Representing her National Team, Finn finished fourth at the 2012 European Young Masters, won bronze at the 2014 European Girls' Team Championship, and bronze again at the 2017 European Ladies' Team Championship. In 2014, she won a silver medal in the World Junior Girls Championship at Angus Glen Golf Club in Ontario, Canada, together with Emma Svensson and Filippa Möörk. [3]

Finn attended Kent State University 2015–2019 and played golf with the Kent State Golden Flashes women's golf team in the Mid-American Conference. [4] She won the Jim West Challenge in her freshman year. She won the Mid-American Conference Championship as a sophomore and finished runner-up her junior year. [2] She was a three-time All-MAC First Team and collected a total of 17 top-10 performances. [1]

She was runner-up at the 2018 Dixie Amateur behind Alexa Pano and competed at the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur in April 2019. [5]

Professional career

Finn turned professional after she graduated in 2019 and before entering qualification for the LPGA Tour played in a few tournaments on the Swedish Golf Tour. She was runner-up behind Tonje Daffinrud at the Moss & Rygge Open in Norway, and won the Åhus Open at Kristianstad Golf Club. [6]

In 2020, Finn joined the Symetra Tour. At the 2021 Symetra Tour Championship, she shot a course record 61 in the opening round after 10 birdies in the first 13 holes, before finishing the tournament tied for fifth. [7]

In 2022, Finn shot 10-under-par to tie for 3rd at the Island Resort Championship. [8]

Amateur wins

Sources: [6] [5]

Professional wins (1)

Swedish Golf Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning
score
To parMargin of
victory
Runner-upRef
120 Jun 2019 Åhus Open 70-71-70=211–51 stroke Flag of Sweden.svg Sara Kjellker (a) [9]

Team appearances

Amateur

Related Research Articles

Madelene Maria Sagström is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She won the 2020 Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio and was runner-up at the 2021 Women's British Open.

Caroline Westrup is a Norwegian-Swedish professional golfer. She represented Sweden until she acquired Norwegian citizenship in 2015.

Linnea Ström is a Swedish professional golfer. She joined the U.S.-based LPGA Tour after graduating from the Symetra Tour as 2018 Rookie of the Year.

Matilda Castren is a Finnish professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour. In 2021 she won the LPGA Mediheal Championship to become the first player from Finland to win on the LPGA Tour.

Linn Maria Grant is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour. As an amateur, she won the 2017 Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship and was in contention at the 2018 and 2020 U.S. Women's Open.

Filippa Möörk is a Swedish professional golfer. She won the 2018 Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit and joined the Ladies European Tour in 2019.

Maja Stark is a Swedish professional golfer. As an amateur she was in contention at the 2020 and 2021 U.S. Women's Open, and after turning professional in August 2021 she won two tournaments in three starts on the Ladies European Tour.

Elsa Amanda Linnér is a Swedish amateur golfer. In 2017 she won the European Girls' Team Championship, the Vagliano Trophy, the French International Lady Juniors Amateur Championship and the Annika Invitational Europe. In 2018 she won the European Ladies' Team Championship.

María Parra Luque is a professional golfer from Spain who played on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour already as a teenager. She won the 2015 European Ladies Amateur and rose to No. 2 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

Sofie Bringner is a Swedish professional golfer. She won the 2021 Swedish Matchplay Championship and finished fifth in the 2021 LET Access Series rankings to secure Ladies European Tour membership for 2022.

Veronika Beatrice Wallin is a Swedish professional golfer. She won the 2016 Annika Invitational Europe and won the European Ladies' Team Championship in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Isabella Deilert is a Swedish professional golfer playing on the Ladies European Tour. She won the 2010 European Young Masters. In 2022, she was runner-up in the Bangkok team event of the Aramco Team Series.

Sara Cecilia Kjellker is a Swedish amateur golfer. She has won twice on the Swedish Golf Tour and won the European Ladies' Team Championship in 2018 and 2019.

Josephine Janson is a retired Swedish professional golfer who played on the Ladies European Tour. She won the 2008 European Girls' Team and the 2011 European Ladies' Team championships, and the Borås Ladies Open on the 2016 LET Access Series.

Linnea Johansson is a Swedish professional golfer and member of the LPGA Tour.

Meja Örtengren is a Swedish amateur golfer. In 2021, she won the Annika Invitational Europe, the German Girls Open, the AJGA's Rolex Tournament of Champions, and the Junior Solheim Cup.

Jacqueline Ingrid Hedwall is a Swedish professional golfer and caddie who played briefly on the Ladies European Tour (LET). As an amateur, she won the Junior Solheim Cup, the European Girls' Team Championship, and the European Ladies' Team Championship (twice) together with her twin sister, Caroline Hedwall.

Linda Ericsson is a retired Swedish professional golfer. She was runner-up at the 1993 European Ladies Amateur, and played on the Ladies European Tour.

Kajsa Arwefjäll is a Swedish amateur golfer and former world champion rope skipper.

Andrea Grimberg Lignell is a Swedish amateur golfer. She won the 2021 NCAA Championship with Ole Miss.

References

  1. 1 2 "Michaela Finn Bio". Symetra Tour. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Presentation". Michaela Finn. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  3. "2014 World Junior Girls Championship". World Junior Girls Championship. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  4. "Miami Hurricanes Roster: Michaela Finn". Kent State Sports. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Michaela Finn". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  6. 1 2 "Michaela Finn Player Profile". Golfdata. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  7. "Kanonrond av Michaela Finn – leder tourfinalen" (in Swedish). Svens Golf. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  8. "Cheng wins Island Resort Championship". Daily Press. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  9. "2019 Åhus Open". Golfdata. Retrieved 11 October 2021.