Eva Dahllöf

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 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.

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. 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.

Professional career 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). 1983 French Open Junior Match-play Championshi p, The Golf Match (Ljunghusen GC), JC Open Junior (Varberg GC)

LPGA Tour career summary YearTournaments playedMoneylist rankEarnings ($)Scoring averageScoringrankTop 10sBest 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 Source:

Team appearances Amateur European Lady Junior's Team Championship (representing Sweden): 1981, 1982 (winners), 1983, 1984 (winners), 1986 European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Sweden): 1983, 1985, 1987 (winners) Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Sweden): 1986, 1988 Source:

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