Maria Bertilsköld (born 13 June 1970) is a Swedish professional golfer and National Team coach. She won the 1990

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and played on the

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for five years between 1992 and 1996.

Amateur career

Bertilsköld won

Swedish Junior Strokeplay Championship The Swedish Junior Strokeplay Championship is a national golf tournament in Sweden for golfers under the age of 22, contested for both men and women. Known also as the JSM Slag, it has been organized by the Swedish Golf Federation since 1977 whe ...

in 1990. The same year, she won the

with a team that included

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, Charlotte Eliasson,

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, Mia Bergman and

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. Under captain Pia Nilsson, she was a member of the Swedish team that won the silver behind England in the 1991

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. In 1991, she represented the Continent of Europe in the

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. Playing on the 1991

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while still an amateur, Bertilsköld won the Rörstrand Ladies Open. She was also runner-up at the 1991

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behind Catrin Nilsmark, and runner-up at the Grundig Team Trophy together with

Professional career

Bertilsköld turned professional in 1992 and joined the

, where she had her best career finish in her first start, a T10 at the

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. In 1993, she finished a career high 60th on the Order of Merit. On the

, Bertilsköld was runner-up at the 1993

behind

. In 1994, she was second in the Order of Merit behind

after recording runner-up finishes at the Aspeboda Ladies Open and the

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. In

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

, she won the Lerum Ladies Open and

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, to again finish second in the Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit, this time behind

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. Bertilsköld retired from tour after the 1996 season and became a coach for the national team. She coached the Swedish ladies team to gold in EGA Championships in

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

and

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

, and to silver in

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

and

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

. Since 2007, she has worked for Team Annika in Europe and the U.S., and in 2013 she joined

Österåker Golf Club Österåker Golf Club (Österåkers Golfklubb) is a golf club situated in Åkersberga 20 km northeast of Stockholm, Sweden. It has hosted the Compaq Open on the Ladies European Tour. History Opened in 1988 and co-designed by Sven Tumba and ...

as a golf instructor.

Amateur wins

*1990

Source:

Professional wins (3)

Swedish Golf Tour (3)

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Sweden): 1990 (winners) *

(representing Sweden):

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

(representing Continent of Europe): 1991

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bertilskold, Maria Swedish female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Golfers from Stockholm 1970 births Living people