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IBM Ladies Open
The Haninge Ladies Open was a women's professional golf tournament held at Haninge Golf Club near Stockholm in Sweden. The tournament ran for two years on the Swedish Golf Tour before being included on the Ladies European Tour between 1990 and 1996. It was known for sponsorship reasons as the IBM Ladies Open and Trygg Hansa Ladies Open. Winners See also * Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika The Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour held in Sweden. The tournament was played annually 1996–2008 and starting 2005 with Annika Sörenstam as the hostess. It was known as t ... References {{reflist External linksLadies European Tour Former Ladies European Tour events Swedish Golf Tour (women) events Golf tournaments in Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haninge Municipality
Haninge Municipality (''Haninge kommun'') is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Handen, a part of the Stockholm urban area. Haninge Municipality was formed in 1971 when ''Västerhaninge'' and ''Österhaninge'' were united. The municipal coat of arms depicts a capercaillie from which the name Haninge is believed to have been derived (the German word ''hahn'' means capercaillie), while the anchor symbolizes the naval base in the municipality. The German word usage is supposedly from the old German Hansa traders who operated in the area. Geography Haninge cherishes its nature, housing the southern parts of the scenic Stockholm archipelago. There are over 3,600 islands, islets and skerries belonging to the municipality, with the three largest islands being Utö, Ornö and Muskö. A car tunnel, the third longest in Sweden, connects Muskö to the mainland. The other two of the islands are reached with passenger and car ferries. Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Ladies European Tour ...
The 1992 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place in 1992. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET). Tournaments The table below shows the 1992 schedule. The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the Ladies European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the tour. Major championships in bold. See also *1992 LPGA Tour References External linksOfficial site of the Ladies European Tour {{Ladies European Tour Seasons Ladies European Tour Ladies European Tour Ladies European Tour The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1978. It is based at Buckinghamshire Golf Club near London in England. Like many UK-based sports organisations it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Koch
Heléne Elisabeth Koch (née Andersson) (born 9 May 1967) is a Swedish professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour and was runner-up at the 1996 Costa Azul Ladies Open. Amateur career Koch was a member of the winning Swedish team at the European Ladies' Team Championship at Turnberry in 1987, together with Helen Alfredsson, Eva Dahllöf, Pia Nilsson, Sofia Grönberg, Malin Landehag and Margareta Bjurö. She teamed up with Helen Alfredsson and Eva Dahllöf again for the 1988 Espirito Santo Trophy, held at Drottningholm in Stockholm, where they finished second after the United States, the best Swedish finish to date. In 1987, she represented the Continent of Europe in the Vagliano Trophy. In 1986, Koch won the Finnish International Ladies Amateur Championship, and also the IBM Ladies Open on the Swedish Golf Tour (SGT), while still an amateur. Playing on the SGT, she was runner-up at the 1987 SI Trygg-Hansa Open behind Michiko Hattori and at the 1988 Ängsö La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liv Wollin
Liv Wollin (née Forsell) (born 17 April 1945) is a Swedish professional golfer, who is regarded as having been one of the best Swedish female amateur players ever. Early life Wollin grew up in Lidingö outside Stockholm, Sweden, as the only girl among five siblings. Her parents were Jacob Forsell and Mette, nee Grut, and they were not golfers. She started out golf in 1958 as a caddie at Lidingö Golf Club close to their house. With few girls playing the game in those days, she usually played with boys. Her older brother Joachim (called "Kim") and Swedish elite amateur Gustav Adolf Bielke were both role models for her while learning the game at young age. She always preferred to develop her golfing abilities by playing on the course instead of practicing a lot on the driving range. Her swing technique was characterized by a short and quick backswing, just like the one of G. A. Bielke. Other sports she practiced, was curling, bowling, table tennis and squash. By saving the mone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Cunningham
Gisela is the name of: People Full name * Gisela, Abbess of Chelles (757–810), daughter of Pepin the Short, sister of Charlemagne ** Gisela, daughter of Charlemagne (781–808) * Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious (born 821), consort of Eberhard of Friuli * Gisela of France, also Gisella or Giséle (fl. 911), traditionally, a daughter to the king of France, Charles the Simple and a consort of Rollo * Gisela of Burgundy (c. 975 – 21 July 1006), daughter of Conrad, king of Burgundy ** Gisela of Hungary (c. 985 - 7 May 1065), her daughter * Gisela of Swabia (989 or 990 – 14 February 1043), Holy Roman Empress, wife of Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor * Archduchess Gisela of Austria (12 July 1856 – 27 July 1932), daughter to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria, named after Giselle of Bavaria * Gisela (singer) (born January 1, 1979), a Spanish singer Given name * Gisela (name) Other * Gisela, Arizona, a US census-designated place * Gisela (magazine) { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Grönberg-Whitmore
Sofia Grönberg-Whitmore (born 25 May 1965) is a Swedish professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour (LET) between 1989 and 2001 and won three LET titles. In 1989 she also won a title on the Ladies Asian Golf Tour and its Order of Merit. Alongside Helen Alfredsson and Liselotte Neumann, Grönberg-Whitmore was one of the pioneers of women's professional golf in Sweden in the 1980s. Amateur career She spent two years with the golf team at the University of Alabama and later married Englishman John Whitmore, residing in Warwickshire for part of her career.Golf: Gronberg prevails in play-off test of nerve The Independent, 31 August 1999 As an amateur, she was part of the Swedish teams winning the 1984 |
Pia Nilsson (golfer)
Pia Nilsson (born 8 May 1958) is a Sweden, Swedish professional golfer and coach. She was one of the two players, who were the first female Swedes to play collegiate golf at a University in the United States and the first Swede to captain a European Solheim Cup team. Early years Born in Malmö, Nilsson began playing golf at around 10 years of age, with her family at Torekov Golf Club in another part of Scania in southern Sweden, when they spend their summers there. At 14 years of age, her handicap had gone down to 10. In her golf career, she later also came to represent Ystad Golf Club, Jönköping Golf Club, Ljunghusen Golf Club and Lidingö Golf Club. Amateur career Nilsson first represented Sweden at the European Lady Junior's Team Championship in 1975 and continued to do so five years in a row. In 1978, at Is Molas Golf Club, Sardinia, Italy, Sweden won the championship for the first time ever. In 1976, at 18 years of age, Nilsson reached the semi-finals of the SM Match Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Oxenstierna
Anna Iliana Maria Gabriella Oxenstierna (born 13 June 1963) is a former Swedish professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour and won the 1989 TEC Players Championship. Early life Born into an athletic and golfing family, her father Thure Gabriel Oxenstierna is the architect of Roslagen Golf Club where her brother Alexander later were general manager. Her grandfather Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna won gold in modern pentathlon at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Amateur career Oxenstierna joined the Swedish National Team in 1978 and represented Sweden five times at the European Lady Junior's Team Championship, winning the 1981 and 1984 editions and finishing runner-up in 1982 and 1983. She finished third at the 1983 European Ladies' Team Championship in Waterloo, Belgium, and fourth at the 1985 edition in Stavanger, Norway. She was part of the Swedish team, with Liselotte Neumann and Viveca Hoff, finishing seventh at the 1984 Espirito Santo Trophy in Hong Kong . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Strudwick
Suzanne Strudwick (born 4 July 1965 in Cheshire, England) is an English professional golfer. She turned professional in 1983 and joined the Women Professional Golfers' European Tour (now the Ladies European Tour) the same year. In 1993 she joined the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and was rookie of the year in her first season. She made the top 100 on the LPGA Tour money list nine times, but never rose higher than 68th. Strudwick played a full tournament schedule until 2004, and now runs her own golf academy based in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Strudwick is now a full-time golf coach at Carson–Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee. Ladies European Tour wins *1989 Open de France Dames *1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ... AGF Ladies' Open External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Garner
Maureen Elizabeth Jane Madill (born 1 February 1958) is a professional golfer, coach and broadcaster. Her married name is Garner. Madill was born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Golf career Madill won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship in 1979 and the British Ladies Amateur Stroke Play Championship in 1980. She represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup in 1980, and later coached the team between 1998 and 2004. Madill turned professional in 1986 and played on the Ladies European Tour until 1996 where she had limited success, recording two runner-up finishes – the 1989 British Women's Matchplay and the 1990 Haninge Open. Media work Madill has also worked for BBC Sport as a commentator, covering several events including the Scottish Open, the PGA Championship, and The Open. Madill has also worked as a commentator with Sky Sports Golf. Team appearances Amateur *European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Ireland): 1979 (winners), 1983 (winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Reid
Dale Reid (born 20 March 1959) is a Scottish professional golfer from Ladybank, Fife. She is one of the most successful players in the history of the Ladies European Tour, with 21 tournament victories. She topped the Order of Merit in 1984 and 1987 and was made a life member of the tour after collecting her 20th title at the 1991 Ford Classic. She played for Europe in the first four Solheim Cups (1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996) and was Europe's non-playing captain in 2000 and 2002. She worked full-time in a care home in Cupar, Fife for a short time as a social care worker, shortly after leaving this job she moved to Australia where she now resides. Reid was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on the 2001 Queen's New Year's Honours List, following the 2000 Solheim Cup win. Crash In 2010 while driving with her partner in Gladstone, Queensland, she was a victim of a fatal crash with a truck. She survived with minor cuts and bruises, but the driver of the other truck, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Ladies European Tour ...
The 1990 Ladies European Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place in 1990. The tournaments were sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET). Tournaments The table below shows the 1990 schedule. The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the Ladies European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the tour. Major championships in bold. See also *1990 LPGA Tour References External linksOfficial site of the Ladies European Tour {{Ladies European Tour Seasons Ladies European Tour Ladies European Tour Ladies European Tour The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1978. It is based at Buckinghamshire Golf Club near London in England. Like many UK-based sports organisations it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
