Tiia Koivisto

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Tiia Koivisto
Personal information
Born (1994-02-06) 6 February 1994 (age 29)
Mäntsälä, Finland
Sporting nationalityFlag of Finland.svg  Finland
Residence Mäntsälä, Finland
Career
Turned professional2016
Current tour(s) LET (joined 2021)
Former tour(s) LET Access Series (joined 2017)
Professional wins2
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour1
Other1
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 CUT: 2022, 2023
Evian Championship CUT: 2022
Achievements and awards
LET Access Series
Order of Merit 		2020

Tiia Koivisto (born 6 February 1994) is a Finnish professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour (LET). She won the 2022 Jabra Ladies Open. In 2020, she topped the LETAS Order of Merit after winning the Czech Ladies Challenge. [1]

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Career

Koivisto was born in Mäntsälä in the greater Helsinki area and grew up next to the Hirvihaaran Golf Course. [2] She only took up golf at the age of 15 after playing soccer for most of her childhood, first for the boys' team as a defender and then later in the women's as a striker. [3]

In 2016, she won the Finnish Match Play and finished third in the Finnish Stroke Play Championship. [4]

Koivisto turned professional in late 2016 after attending LET Q-School, and started playing on the LET Access Series in 2017. She has enjoyed steady progress, with two top-10 finishes in her first season at the Azores Ladies Open and the Castellum Ladies Open, a solo third finish at the Anna Nordqvist Västerås Open in 2018, to five top-10 finishes in 2019. In 2020, she finished T11 at the Australian Ladies Classic and won the Czech Ladies Challenge to top the LETAS Order of Merit, earning promotion to the Ladies European Tour. She finished the year with a scoring average of 69.6. [1]

In 2021, she finished T7 at the Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande and made the cut in her first LPGA Tour-sanctioned event, the ISPS Handa World Invitational in Ireland.

In 2022, she won the Jabra Ladies Open, held at the Evian Resort Golf Club in France, after beating Whitney Hillier of Australia in a playoff with a birdie on the first extra hole. With her victory, Koivisto earned a place in the field for The Amundi Evian Championship, her first major. [5]

Amateur wins

Source: [4]

Professional wins (2)

Ladies European Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
121 May 2022 Jabra Ladies Open −6 (72-69-66=207)Playoff Flag of Australia (converted).svg Whitney Hillier

Ladies European Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
12022 Jabra Ladies Open Flag of Australia (converted).svg Whitney Hillier Won with birdie on first extra hole

LET Access Series wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-upRef
118 Sep 2020 Amundi Czech Ladies Challenge −9 (68-71-68=207)2 strokes Flag of England.svg Cara Gainer [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Player Profile Tiia Koivisto". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  2. ↑ "Tiia Koivisto" (in Finnish). Hirvihaaran Golf. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "Getting to Know Tiia Koivisto". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Tiia Koivisto". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  5. ↑ "Jabra Joy For Tiia Koivisto". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  6. ↑ "2020 Amundi Czech Ladies Challenge". Golfdata. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
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