Lynn Carlsson (born 7 May 1994) is a retired
Swedish professional golfer. She last played on the
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 ...
2015–2019 and finished runner-up at the 2019
Women's NSW Open
The Women's NSW Open (Women's New South Wales Open) is a women's professional golf tournament held in New South Wales, Australia. It was first played on the ALPG Tour in 2006. Beginning in 2018, the tournament was co-sanctioned by the Ladies Europe ...
.
Career
Carlsson grew up in
Varberg
Varberg () is a locality and the seat of Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 35,782 inhabitants in 2019.
Varberg and all of Halland are well known for their "typical west coast" sandy beaches. In Varberg the coast changes from wi ...
and graduated 2013 from one of the two Swedish National Golf High Schools in south of Sweden before she became a professional golfer the same year and attended one of Sweden's national the Scandinavian School of Golf in
Halmstad
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.
Amateur career
In 2007 Lynn won her first junior tournament, playing on a regional level and in addition to that victory she has 9 more wins as an amateur/junior. In 2011 she won the Pulsen Open and the Harder German Junior Masters, and the following year she was awarded the
Annika Sörenstam
Annika Charlotta Sörenstam (; born 9 October 1970) is a Swedish professional golfer. She is regarded as one of the best female golfers in history. Before stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she had won 90 inter ...
scholarship ''The Collegiate Golf Experience'', and got to spend time in
Florida
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learning from Annika.
LET Access Series
In 2014 she nearly secured her first win on the
LET Access Series
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Launched in 2010, the LET Access Series provides players with an opportunity to compete and progress on to the LET ...
, as she lost a playoff to
Lina Boqvist
Lina Boqvist (born 25 May 1991) is a Swedish professional golfer and member of the Ladies European Tour. In 2021 she won the Aramco Team Series – New York teamed with Jessica Korda and Karolin Lampert. She was runner-up at the 2019 Lalla Merye ...
at the Onsjö Ladies Open. In 2015 she was again runner-up in a LETAS event, the Sölvesborg Ladies Open hosted by Fanny Sunesson, and together with another runner-up finish at
Tourfinal Vellinge Open
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The Tour Final was introduced in the 2005 season, succeeding the Telia Grand ...
she ended the season second on the
Swedish Golf Tour
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Order of Merit. She was also runner-up behind
Esther Henseleit
Esther Henseleit (born 14 January 1999) is a German professional golfer and member of the Ladies European Tour and LPGA Tour.
Amateur career
Henseleit attended Freie Waldorfschule Oldenburg and played for Golfclub am Meer before switching to Ham ...
at the
2019
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Skaftö Open, were Carlsson posted the lowest round of her career on 63 strokes (-9) and also her lowest 54-hole score on a total of 19 under par.
Ladies European Tour
Carlsson joined the LET through the Lalla Aicha Q-School in December 2014, after finishing top-30, and easily kept her card through the order of merit the next five seasons. Her first breakthrough came in June 2015 when she finished T7 at the
Deloitte Ladies Open
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and she also finished T10 at the
Helsingborg Open
The Helsingborg Open is a women's professional golf tournament held in Helsingborg, Sweden. It first featured on the Ladies European Tour (LET) in 2013.
It was held at Vasatorp Golf Club until it moved to Allerum Golf Club in 2023.
The tourn ...
. In 2018, she posted three top-10 finishes on the LET including a tie for third in the
Lacoste Ladies Open de France
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Since the 2011 edition, Lacoste has been the tit ...
, and she ended the season a career best 14th on the Order of Merit. In March 2019 she achieved her career best finish of T2 in the
Women's NSW Open
The Women's NSW Open (Women's New South Wales Open) is a women's professional golf tournament held in New South Wales, Australia. It was first played on the ALPG Tour in 2006. Beginning in 2018, the tournament was co-sanctioned by the Ladies Europe ...
.
In 2017 she won the
Swedish Matchplay Championship
The Swedish Match Play Championship is a golf tournament played since 1904, held for both men and women. It is the oldest and most traditional golf tournament in Sweden. The name SM is shortening in Swedish language for "Svenska Mästerskapet" (th ...
, just like
Anna Nordqvist
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Caroline Hedwall
Caroline Ingrid Hedwall (born 13 May 1989) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour (LET) and the LPGA Tour. In 2013 she became the first player to win five matches in a single Solheim Cup event. As an amateur she w ...
,
Maria Hjorth
Maria Anna Hjorth (born 15 October 1973) is a Swedish professional golfer.
Early years
Hjorth was born in Falun. As the youngest of three daughters to Kjell and Monica Hjorth, she first gripped a golf club at three years of age. Six years old, ...
,
Helen Alfredsson
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and
Liselotte Neumann
Liselotte Maria "Lotta" Neumann (born 20 May 1966) is a Swedish professional golfer. When she recorded her first LPGA Tour win, by claiming the 1988 U.S. Women's Open title, Neumann also became the first Swedish golfer, male or female, to win a ...
before her. She qualified for the
2018 Women's British Open
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and
2019 Women's British Open
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through her top-25 ranking on the LET Order of Merit, but did not make the cut.
Retirement
Due to a shoulder injury, Carlsson retired from professional golf following the 2019 season, at age 25 and after only five seasons on the LET, having just posted her career best finish during the season. The final tournament Carlsson played in here career was the
Magical Kenya Ladies Open
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The tournament is played in Kenya at Vipingo Ridge, near Kikambala in the former Coast Province. It was the last Ladies European T ...
2019.
Amateur wins
*2013 Hot Screen Open, Skandia Tour Elit #6 Flickor
*2011 Pulsen Open, Harder German Junior Masters
*2010 Skandia Tour Riks #3 - Göteborg,
*2009 Skandia Tour Riks #1 - Halland, DM Halland Damer
*2008 DM Halland Damer
*2007 Skandia Tour Distrikt #1 - Halland A, Skandia Tour Distrikt #5 - Halland B
Professional wins (1)
Swedish Golf Tour Wins (1)
*2017
Swedish Matchplay Championship
The Swedish Match Play Championship is a golf tournament played since 1904, held for both men and women. It is the oldest and most traditional golf tournament in Sweden. The name SM is shortening in Swedish language for "Svenska Mästerskapet" (th ...
LET career summary
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References
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Swedish female golfers
Ladies European Tour golfers
Sportspeople from Halland County
People from Varberg
1994 births
Living people
21st-century Swedish women