Christel Boeljon

Christel Boeljon
Personal information
Full nameChristel Wilhelmina Boeljon
Born (1987-07-30) 30 July 1987 (age 37)
Beverwijk, Netherlands
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Sporting nationality Netherlands
ResidenceNetherlands
Career
CollegePurdue University
Turned professional2009
Current tour(s)Ladies European Tour (joined 2009)
LPGA Tour (joined 2011)
Professional wins4
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour4
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT15: 2011
Women's PGA C'shipT23: 2012
U.S. Women's OpenCUT: 2012, 2013, 2014
Women's British OpenT47: 2013
Evian ChampionshipCUT: 2013, 2014

Christel Wilhelmina Boeljon (born 30 July 1987)[1] is a professional golfer from the Netherlands, currently playing on the Ladies European Tour and the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.

Amateur career

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Boeljon was born in Beverwijk. One day she joined her parents for a visit to the Golfclub Spaarnwoude, and two years later she gave up field hockey and concentrated on golf. In 2005, she continued her studies in the United States and accepted a golf scholarship to Purdue University in Indiana.[1] In her first 25 tournaments she played 24 rounds under par.

Highlights
  • 2002: won Mevrouw Swanebeker, won Dutch Junior Masters
  • 2003: won National Match Play U-21
  • 2004: runner-up National Stroke Play U-21, runner-up Stern Open
  • 2005: won National Stroke Play U-21, semi-finalist in British Ladies Amateur
  • 2006: won Dutch International Junior Open at Toxandria
  • 2007: best Dutch player at the Dutch Ladies Open
  • 2008: 8th at the Ladies Dutch Open at Eindhoven, won National Stroke Play

Professional career

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Boeljon turned professional in 2009, when she returned from Purdue. She went to the Ladies European Tour's qualifying school in 2008, won the first stage and finished 4th at the final stage in 2009. She began well, she made the cut at the ANZ Ladies Masters in Australia and finished 41st. In April, she won the European Ladies Golf Cup together with Marjet van der Graaff. In June she again won the National Stroke Play. She made the cut at the 2009 Women's British Open and finished 57th.

In 2011, she played her first major in the United States, the Kraft Nabisco Championship and finished 15th. A few weeks later she won the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open in Belek, then finished 2nd at the Ladies Slovak Open, which was good enough to become the leader of the Ladies European Tour money list.

Professional wins (4)

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Ladies European Tour (4)

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No. Date Tournament Winning
score
To par Margin
of victory
Runner(s)-up Winner's
share ()
1 8 May 2011 Turkish Airlines Ladies Open 73-71-70-73=287 –5 3 strokes England Florentyna Parker
Wales Becky Brewerton
37,500
2 5 Feb 2012 Gold Coast RACV Australian Ladies Masters 66-65-68-68=267 –21 1 stroke Italy Diana Luna
South Korea Kim Ha-neul
South Korea So Yeon Ryu
63,631
3 13 May 2012 Turkish Airlines Ladies Open 70-73-69-73=285 –7 3 strokes Finland Ursula Wikström 37,500
4 21 Jun 2015 Deloitte Ladies Open 69-69-71=209 –10 4 strokes Finland Ursula Wikström
Denmark Emily Kristine Pedersen
37,500

Results in LPGA majors

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Results not in chronological order before 2015.

Tournament 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
ANA Inspiration T15 T56 T41 T55 CUT
Women's PGA Championship T57 T23 CUT CUT CUT CUT
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT CUT
Women's British Open T57 CUT T54 CUT T47 CUT
The Evian Championship ^ CUT CUT

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

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Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
ANA Inspiration 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 4
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 2
U.S. Women's Open 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Women's British Open 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3
The Evian Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals 0 0 0 0 0 2 22 9
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2011 Kraft Nabisco – 2012 LPGA)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 0

Ladies European Tour career summary

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Year Tournaments
played
Cuts
made
Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish
Earnings
()
Money
list rank
Scoring
average
Scoring
rank
2004 1 0 0 0 0 0 CUT n/a 77.50
2006 1 1 0 0 0 0 T55 73.67
2007 1 1 0 0 0 0 T11 71.00
2008 1 1 0 0 0 1 T10 70.33
2009 17 14 0 0 0 1 T5 48,893 35 72.45 37
2010 20 14 0 3 1 7 T2 121,959 12 72.33 35
2011 15 13 1 2 1 6 1 161,172 8 70.92 13
2012 6 3 2 0 0 2 1 104,884 13 72.00
2013 7 6 0 0 0 1 5 38,731 72.96
2014 5 2 0 0 0 1 T4 14,650 73.83
  • as of 2014 season

LPGA Tour career summary

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Year Tournaments
played
Cuts
made
Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish
Earnings
($)
Money
list rank
Scoring
average
Scoring
rank
2011 14 12 0 0 0 2 T9 170,553 52 72.31 14
2012 20 10 0 0 0 0 T23 89,817 81 73.47 91
2013 20 14 0 0 0 1 T7 163,260 67 72.38 63
2014 20 10 0 0 0 1 T7 120,064 84 72.64 98
2015 12 7 0 1 0 1 2 157,280 78 73.73 130
2016 17 5 0 0 0 1 T6 61,606 114 73.31 137
  • official through the 2016 season[2]

World ranking

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Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.

Year World
ranking
Source
2007 648 [3]
2008 703 [4]
2009 274 [5]
2010 118 [6]
2011 63 [7]
2012 82 [8]
2013 143 [9]
2014 192 [10]
2015 94 [11]
2016 221 [12]

Team appearances

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Amateur

Professional

Solheim Cup record

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Year Total
Matches
Total
W-L-H
Singles
W-L-H
Foursomes
W-L-H
Fourballs
W-L-H
Points
Won
Points
%
Career 3 1-2-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 1.0 33.3
2011 3 1-2-0 1-0-0 def. B. Lincicome 2 up 0-1-0 lost w/ K. Stupples 3&2 0-1-0 lost w/ S. Gal 2&1 1.0 33.3

References

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  1. ^ a b LET profile Archived 2011-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Christel Boeljon results". LPGA. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
  3. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 25, 2007.
  4. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 30, 2008.
  5. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 29, 2009.
  6. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 28, 2010.
  7. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 27, 2011.
  8. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 31, 2012.
  9. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 30, 2013.
  10. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 29, 2014.
  11. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 28, 2015.
  12. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 26, 2016.
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