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Eva Dahllöf
Personal information
Born (1965-07-04) 4 July 1965 (age 59)
Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Sporting nationality Sweden
ResidenceBenton Harbor, Michigan
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 Dahllöf (born 4 July 1965) is a Swedish professional golfer that played seventeen seasons on the LPGA Tour.

Dahllöf started playing golf at the age of 9 and was a member of the Swedish National Team 1981 to 1988. She competed in the 1986 and 1988 World Amateur Team Championship for Sweden, where she finished runner-up in 1988.[1] She played for MoDo Hockey before dropping ice hockey to focus on golf, moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma.[2] While playing for Oklahoma State University 1985 to 1989, she captured six individual titles and was awarded All-America honors on three occasions.[3]

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).[1]

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 te 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.[1]

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.[1]

LPGA Tour career summary

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

Source:[4]

Team appearances

Amateur

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c d "Eva Dahllof Bio". LPGA. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Swedish Star on the Hot List". Svensk Golf. Retrieved 14 February 2017.Template:Sv
  3. ^ "All-Americans". Oklahoma State. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Eva Dahllöf stats". LPGA. Retrieved 13 February 2017.