Cecilie Lundgreen (born 6 February 1973) is a

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professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour between 1999 and 2013, where her best finish was runner-up at the

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in 2001.

Amateur career

Lundgreen won the 1991 Norwegian Junior Championship and the 1994

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. She represented Norway at the

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, together with Line Berg and

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. Lundgreen attended

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on a golf scholarship 1994–1997. She made an immediate impact, capturing

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Golfer of the Year honors in 1994 after winning the conference tournament as a freshman. She was all-conference selection four times and was named FAU Female Student-Athlete of the Year in 1997, and inducted into the FAU Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.

Professional career

Lundgreen turned professional in 1998 and played a year on the

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where her best finish was solo third at the 1998

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, before joining the Ladies European Tour in 1999. Her standout LET season was 2001, where she finished T6 at the Ladies French Open and runner-up at the

, one stroke behind

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, and finished ranked 27th in the Order of Merit. In 2006 Lundgreen played on the Nedbank Women's Golf Tour in

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, where she was runner-up at the Pam Golding Ladies International and the

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. Struggling to keep her card, Lundgreen played intermittently on the Swedish Golf Tour, where she was runner-up at the 2009

, the 2010

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, and the

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and

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in 2011. In 2012 Lundgreen played in the

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, winning the

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and

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, finishing third in the Order of Merit and re-capturing her LET card for 2013. She also won the 2012 Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit in the process. In 2014 she was again runner-up at the

. Playing on the

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in South Africa, she was runner-up in several events including the 2014

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and the 2017

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Private life

Lundgreen retired from tour in 2017 and became General Manager and Head Pro of Borregaard Golf Club. She is co-author of a book titled "Why I am a Mormon", published in 2012 by

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, describing her conversion into

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Amateur wins (5)

* 1991 Norwegian Junior Championship * 1994

Professional wins (2)

LET Access Series wins (2)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

Results in LPGA majors

CUT = missed the half-way cut.
NT = no tournament

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing Norway):

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

Espirito Santo Trophy The Espirito Santo Trophy (World Women's Amateur Team Championships) is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964. It was instituted by the Fre ...

(representing Norway):

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

Professional *

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(representing Norway): 2008, 2010

External links

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lundgreen, Cecilie Norwegian female golfers Florida Atlantic Owls women's golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Sarpsborg 1973 births Living people