Sarah Nilsson | |||
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Personal information | |||
Born | Kristianstad, Sweden | 24 July 1997||
Sporting nationality | Sweden | ||
Residence | Yngsjö, Sweden | ||
Career | |||
Turned professional | 2016 | ||
Current tour(s) | Ladies European Tour | ||
Former tour(s) | LET Access Series Swedish Golf Tour | ||
Professional wins | 4 | ||
Achievements and awards | |||
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Sarah Nilsson (born 24 July 1997) is a Swedish professional golfer. She won the Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit in 2017 was a Ladies European Tour (LET) rookie in 2018. [1]
Nilsson's sister Emma (three years older) is also a professional golfer on the Ladies European Tour. [2] Both sisters played in the inaugural Saint-Malo Golf Mixed Open in 2019, the first professional event to see female and male golfers from two tours play for the same trophy, with their parents caddying for them. [3]
Nilsson won the 2015 Tourfinal Vellinge Open on the Swedish Golf Tour while still an amateur. She turned professional and joined the 2016 LET Access Series as a teenager, and had four top-10 finishes in her rookie season. The following year, she won the Ladies Norwegian Open and the Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit. In 2018, she made five LET starts, with a best finish of T15 at the dual-ranked Jabra Ladies Open. [4]
Nilsson finished sixth at the Q-School for the 2019 Ladies European Tour behind Bronte Law, Linnea Ström, Esther Henseleit, Sian Evans and Leona Maguire, after losing a playoff to Maguire for the fifth and final full card. [5] She started 14 LET tournaments in 2019 and finished 85th on the Order of Merit. [6]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Ref |
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1 | 10 Oct 2015 | Tourfinal Vellinge Open (as an amateur) | 73-70-75=218 | +2 | 4 strokes | Lynn Carlsson | [7] |
2 | 11 Aug 2017 | Ladies Norwegian Open | 71-72-69=212 | −4 | 2 strokes | Frida Gustafsson-Spång Jenny Haglund Cajsa Persson | [8] |
3 | 29 Sep 2018 | Nøtterøy Open | 69-69-72=210 | −6 | 3 strokes | Isabella Ramsay | [9] |
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