Elina Nummenpää (born 7 September 1983) is a Finnish

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who plays on the

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(LET).

Career

Nummenpää was a member of the Finnish National Team and represented her country four times at the

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between 2007 and 2010. Their best finish was 6th in

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, after Finland fell to Sweden in the quarter finals. Nummenpää won the 2009 Finnish Amateur Championship and turned professional in 2011. She joined the

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where she recorded two top-10 finishes in her rookie season. In 2012, Nummenpää joined the

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, where her best finish was a tie for 4th at the Crete Ladies Open. She finished T20 at Lalla Aicha Tour School and joined the 2013

, with her best result her rookie season a tie for 8th at the Hero Women's Indian Open. In 2018, she won the

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, one stroke ahead of

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. She finished tied fourth in the team event of the 2021 Aramco Team Series – Jeddah, teamed with

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and

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. Nummenpää was in contention at the 2022

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, and held the overnight lead together with

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after they carded opening round scores of 63. She also held the outright lead during parts of the final round, but eventually had to settle for a tie for third place behind

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and Lisa Pettersson, alongside

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Amateur wins

*2009 Finnish Amateur Championship Source:

Professional wins (1)

Santander Golf Tour wins (1)

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Finland):

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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