Kajsa Arwefjäll (born 20 June 2000) is a Swedish professional golfer on the

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and former world champion rope skipper. She was the

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Order of Merit and Rookie of the Year winner.

Early life and family

Arwefjäll was born in

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in 2000 and moved with her family to

Höllviken Höllviken is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality situated in Vellinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 15,678 inhabitants in 2019. It is located close to both Malmö and the Øresund Bridge which connects Sweden and Denmark. The town is a ...

in 2009, where she grew up playing at

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. Raised in an athletic family, her mother is an accomplished skier and her father, a former professional golfer, is her coach. Her brother Kasper has played ice-hockey with the

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. She is a former world champion rope skipper with 21 national and international medals.

Amateur career

Arwefjäll won her first international title in the 2018 Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship at Roganstown Golf & Country Club, beating her compatriot Louise Rydqvist into second by a stroke. Drafted to the National Team, she competed at the 2018

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and the 2018

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in Japan, where she won a bronze medal together with Andrea Lignell and Ingrid Lindblad. In 2021, she helped Sweden place third at

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. Arwefjäll graduated from Sundsgymnasiet in 2019 and accepted an athletic scholarship to

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, where she played with the San Jose State Spartans women's golf team from 2019 to 2024. As a sophomore, she was an individual qualifier to the

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. In her final two years she was named

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Player of the Year after she finished runner-up and then won the Mountain West Championship. She played in the

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twice and on the winning side at the 2022 Arnold Palmer Cup. Arwefjäll was runner-up at the 2020

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and at the 2021 Swedish Junior Strokeplay Championship. With her father on the bag she won the 2021 GolfUppsala Open on the LET Access Series, where she beat Sofie Bringner on the second hole of a playoff. In 2023, she was runner-up at the Västerås Ladies Open and tied for 23rd at the

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, an LET event. She advanced to the quarterfinals of The Women's Amateur Championship, where she lost to world number one Ingrid Lindblad 4&3.

Professional career

Arwefjäll turned professional after she graduated in 2024, and joined the LET Access Series. She was runner-up at the Santander Golf Tour Ávila behind

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, before winning the MoreGolf Mastercard Open ahead of compatriot Andrea Lignell. Following another victory at the Destination Gotland Ladies Open, she won the Nordic Golf Tour Order of Merit. After two victories, two runner-ups and a total of eight top-6 finishes in twelve starts, she secured the

Order of Merit and Rookie of the Year titles ahead of

, and graduated to the

for 2025.

Amateur wins

*2016 Skandia Tour Riks #6 *2017 Buschnell Ljunghusen Open, Skandia Tour Future #5 *2018 Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship, Teen Tour Future #4, Teen Tour Elite #6 *2019 Schyberg Junior Open *2022 USF Intercollegiate *2024 Chevron Silverado Showdown, Mountain West Championship Source:

Professional wins (3)

LET Access Series (3)

^Co-sanctioned with the

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Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Sweden): 2018 *

(representing Sweden): 2021 *

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(representing the International Team):

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(winners) *

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(representing Sweden):

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(representing Sweden):

Patsy Hankins Trophy The Patsy Hankins Trophy is a women's amateur golf competition on the model of the Ryder Cup, corresponding to the men's Bonallack Trophy. The competition opposes every two years a European team and a team representing Asia/Pacific, and the venue a ...

(representing Europe): 2023

References

External links

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