Eva Dahllöf

Eva Dahllöf
Personal information
Full nameEva Ingeborg Dahllöf
Born (1965-07-04) 4 July 1965 (age 59)
Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Sporting nationality Sweden
ResidenceCentennial, Colorado
Career
CollegeOklahoma State University
Turned professional1990
Former tour(s)LPGA Tour (joined 1993)
Ladies European Tour (joined 1991)
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT57: 2000
Women's PGA C'shipT33: 2002
U.S. Women's OpenT52: 2005
du Maurier ClassicT67: 2000

Eva Ingeborg Dahllöf (born 4 July 1965) is a Swedish professional golfer who played 17 seasons on the LPGA Tour.

Early life and amateur career

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Dahllöf started playing golf at the age of 9 with her father Kjell and mother Gun at Örnsköldsvik Golf Club in the province of Ångermanland in Sweden.[1]

At age 12, she won the 1977 Norrland Ladies' Championship (the championship representing the geographical northern half of Sweden) over 72 holes at her home course.

In April 1983, Dahlöf won the French Junior Open Match-play Championship for the Esmond Trophy at Golf de Saint-Cloud outside Paris, beating Claire Waite, England, on the first extra hole of the final match. Later in 1983, not yet 18 years old, Dahlöf won over future professional major winners Liselotte Neuman and Helen Alfredsson in an important junior tournament in Sweden, JC Open at Varberg Golf Club. She bet Alfredsson in a play-off with Neuman finishing one stroke behind in the 54-hole tournament.[2]

Sister of elite ice hockey player Håkan Dahlöf, she played ice hockey for MoDo Hockey before moving to Stockholm in late 1983 to focus on golf.[1]

1985-1989, she played collegiate golf at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, capturing six individual titles and was awarded All-America honors on three occasions,[3] graduated with a Bachelor of Science focused in Health & Wellness.

She represented Sweden five times in a row at the European Lady Junior's Team Championship, first time only 16 years old, being part of the winning team twice, 1982 and 1984. She also played for Sweden in the European Ladies' Team Championship three times in a row, the last time, in 1987 at Turnberry, Scotland, her team won the championship.[4]

She competed in the 1986 and 1988 amateur team worlds Esporito Santo Trophy for Sweden, where her team in 1988 finished runner-up, one stroke behind United States, and Dahlöf herself finished 4th individually.[4][5]

Professional career

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Dahllöf turned professional 1990 and competed for two years on the Ladies European Tour prior to joining the 1993 LPGA Tour on her fourth LPGA qualification attempt, finishing the 1992 LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament tied for 29th. She returned to the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn non-exempt status in 1996 (tied for 33rd) and exempt status in 1993 (tied for 20th), 1995 (tied for 14th), 1997 (tied for eighth), 2000 (won a six-way playoff for the final exempt spot) and 2004 (tied for seventh).[5]

Her LPGA career-best was a tie for fifth at the 2008 MasterCard Classic in Morelia, Mexico, three strokes behind winner Louise Friberg, followed by four ties for sixth, in 1998 at the Mercury Titleholders Championship and in 1999 at the Australian Ladies Masters, Standard Register PING and State Farm Rail Classic. She carded eight rounds of 66, at the first round of the 1998 Mercury Titleholders Championship, at the second round of the 1999 Philips Invitational, the first round of the 2001 Subaru Memorial of Naples, the second round of the 2001 Kathy Ireland Championship, the first and final rounds of the 2004 Welch's/Fry's Championship, the third round of the 2007 Navistar LPGA Classic, and in the first round of the 2008 Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic.[5]

Dahllöf recorded a hole-in-one during the third round of the 1998 Star Bank LPGA Classic and another during the second round of the 2009 CN Canadian Women's Open.[5]

Amateur wins

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LPGA Tour career summary

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Year Tournaments
played 		Money
list rank 		Earnings
($) 		Scoring
average 		Scoring
rank 		Top 10s Best finish
1993 16 140 10,370 74.28 131 – T30
1994 23 133 16,403 73.90 113 – T26
1995 21 121 26,939 74.24 127 – T11
1996 22 136 18,829 74.53 138 – T35
1997 21 126 35,738 73.13 95 – T15
1998 24 79 85,225 72.71 81 1 T6
1999 28 52 169,052 72.01 49 4 T6×3
2000 26 108 69,046 73.48 112 1 T10
2001 15 119 42,567 72.79 85 – T17
2002 20 108 52,704 73.68 111 – T21
2003 19 96 65,590 73.22 100 – T14
2004 21 116 49,253 73.07 95 – T12
2005 19 118 40,667 74.45 125 – T23
2006 15 103 67,642 72.58 65 – T19
2007 17 94 80,918 73.27 75 – T11
2008 21 99 103,260 73.30 104 1 T5
2009 17 112 53,551 73.22 104 – T14
Total 345 987,754 7 T5

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Team appearances

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Amateur

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Notes and references

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  1. ^ a b "Porträttet, Eva Dahlöf" [The Portrait, Eva Dahlöf]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 1. February 1984. p. 58.
  2. ^ a b "Golfmatchen". Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 4. May 1983. pp. 91–94, 115.
  3. ^ "All-Americans". Oklahoma State. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 184–187, 193, 198–199, 227, 266. ISBN 91-86818007.
  5. ^ a b c d "Eva Dahllof Bio". LPGA. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  6. ^ "MoDo Open". Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 6. August 1982. p. 78.
  7. ^ "Eva Dahllöf stats". LPGA. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
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