Sarah Nilsson (born 24 July 1997) is a
Swedish professional golfer. She won the
Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit in 2017 was a
Ladies European Tour
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(LET) rookie in 2018.
Personal life
Nilsson's sister
Emma (three years older) is also a professional golfer on the Ladies European Tour.
Both sisters played in the inaugural Saint-Malo Golf Mixed Open in 2019, the first professional event to see female and male golfers from two tours play for the same trophy, with their parents caddying for them.
Career
Nilsson won the 2015 Tourfinal Vellinge Open on the Swedish Golf Tour while still an amateur. She turned professional and joined the
2016 LET Access Series as a teenager, and had four top-10 finishes in her rookie season. The following year, she won the
Ladies Norwegian Open
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Highlights
The 2015 edition saw a record-breaking 14-hole sudden-death playoff between Johanna ...
and the
Swedish Golf Tour
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Order of Merit. In 2018, she made five LET starts, with a best finish of T15 at the dual-ranked
Jabra Ladies Open
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The tournament is played at the Evian Resort Golf Club in France and has since 2014 served as European qualifying competition for the ...
.
Nilsson finished sixth at the Q-School for the
2019 Ladies European Tour
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Schedule
The table below ...
behind
Bronte Law
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,
Linnea Ström
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Amateur career
Ström became a member of the Swedish National Golf T ...
,
Esther Henseleit,
Sian Evans
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and
Leona Maguire
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She was ranked 1st in the world on the women's World Amateur Golf Ranking from May 2015 until May 2016 and then from August 2016 until February 2018. Maguire's 135 weeks a ...
, after losing a playoff to Maguire for the fifth and final full card. She started 14 LET tournaments in 2019 and finished 85th on the Order of Merit.
Amateur wins
*2011 Skandia Tour Skåne
*2012 Skandia Cup Riksfinal
*2014 Skandia Tour Elit
Professional wins (4)
Swedish Golf Tour wins (3)
Other wins (1)
*2016 Sölvesborg Open
References
External links
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Swedish female golfers
Ladies European Tour golfers
Sportspeople from Skåne County
People from Kristianstad Municipality
1997 births
Living people
21st-century Swedish women