Malene Krølbøll Hansen (born 1995) is a Danish

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who plays on the

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Amateur career

Krølbøll played for the National Team and represented Denmark in two

European Girls' Team Championship The European Girls' Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for women up to 18 organised by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1991. It was played in odd-numbered years from 1991 to 1999 and has bee ...

s and six

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s between 2011 and 2018, with best result a bronze medal in 2012. She finished 4th at the

2016 Espirito Santo Trophy The 2016 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 14–17 September at Mayakoba El Camaleon Golf Club and Iberostar Playa Paraiso Golf Club in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. It was the 27th women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the ...

and 8th at the

2018 Espirito Santo Trophy The 2018 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 29 August – 1 September at Carton House Golf Club on its Montgomerie and O'Meara courses in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It was the 28th women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Esp ...

. In 2013, she won the

Annika Invitational Europe The ANNIKA Invitational Europe is an annual amateur golf tournament in Sweden for European girls under 18. The tournament, founded by Annika Sörenstam in 2012, is a qualifying event for the European team in the Junior Solheim Cup since 2015 a ...

and played in the

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event the

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in Sweden, and made the cut. Krølbøll was a member of the

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women's golf program from 2014-18. Krølbøll was a two-time All-

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selection, and after the school's move to the

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, she received two All-Sun Belt honors along with being named the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year in both 2017 and 2018. She won four individual titles including the 2018 Sun Belt Championship. Krølbøll had the greatest women's golf career in school history, and earned a degree in marketing. In June 2018, Krølbøll played two tournaments on the

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. She lost a playoff at the Hinton Golf Open to Anna Magnusson, but the following week won the

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, 4 strokes ahead of Filippa Möörk.

Professional career

Krølbøll turned professional in September 2018 and joined the 2019

. In her rookie season, she made ten cuts in 18 events, and finished 84th in the ranking after a season best T8 at the Four Winds Invitational. In a pandemic-reduced 2020 season, she made every cut in eight starts, and finished 27th in the ranking. She recorded two top-10 finishes including a season-best T9 result at the

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Amateur wins

*2011 Norberg Open *2012 Norberg Open, Junior Masters Invitational, Vejlematchen *2013 Norberg Open, Nordea Furesopokalen,

*2014 Wiibroe Cup, Schyberg Junior Open *2015 DGU Elite Tour III *2016 Wiibroe Cup, Golfweek Conference Challenge, Danish International Ladies Amateur Championship *2017 Wiibroe Cup, Ladies Fall Intercollegiate *2018 Charleston Invitational, Sun Belt Conference Tournament, Danish International Ladies Amateur Championship Source:

Professional wins (1)

Swedish Golf Tour wins (1)

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Denmark): 2011, 2012 *

(representing Denmark):

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

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 Fren ...

(representing Denmark):

References

External links

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Malene Krølbøll Hansen
at the Coastal Carolina Chanticleer official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Krolboll Hansen, Malene Danish female golfers Coastal Carolina Chanticleers women's golfers Sportspeople from Copenhagen 1995 births Living people