Ingrid Lindblad

Karin Ingrid Andrea Lindblad (born 11 April 2000) is a Swedish amateur golfer. She won the 2021 European Ladies Amateur Championship and rose to number 2 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in August 2020.[1]

Ingrid Lindblad
Personal information
Full nameKarin Ingrid Andrea Lindblad
Born (2000-04-11) 11 April 2000
Halmstad, Sweden
Sporting nationality Sweden
ResidenceHalmstad, Sweden
Career
CollegeLouisiana State
StatusAmateur
Professional wins2
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA InspirationDNP
Women's PGA C'shipDNP
U.S. Women's OpenT30: 2020
Women's British OpenCUT: 2019, 2021
Evian ChampionshipDNP
Achievements and awards
SEC Freshman of the Year2020
SEC Player of the Year2020

Career

Lindblad grew up in Halmstad and joined the Swedish National Team in 2017. She represented her country at the European Girls' Team Championship, were Sweden won the bronze in 2018. She was then part of the Swedish teams that won the European Ladies' Team Championship in 2019 and 2020, teamed with Frida Kinhult, Sara Kjellker, Maja Stark, Linn Grant, and Beatrice Wallin.[1] She was a member of the 2018 European Junior Ryder Cup team and was selected for the international team at the 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup amd again at the 2021 Arnold Palmer Cup.

She also excelled individually. In 2017 she won the Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship, the Stenson Sunesson Junior Challenge and the Swedish Junior Classics. In 2018 she won the German Girls Open. She was runner-up at the 2018 Annika Invitational Europe and won the 2019 Annika Invitational USA.[2] In 2019, Lindblad qualified for the 2019 Women's British Open, her first major championship, where she fell short of the cut.[3]

Lindblad was a freshman at Louisiana State University in 2019–20, following in the footsteps of compatriot Madelene Sagström. In her freshman year, she had the best single season scoring average in LSU women's golf history at 70.33, beating Sagström's previous record of 71.48 from 2014–15. She won two individual tournaments, the Magnolia Invitational and the Florida State Match-Up, in her pandemic-shortened freshman season.[4] Lindblad became the first player in program history to earn Southeastern Conference Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year honors in the same season.[5]

Over the summer in 2020, she played on the Nordic Golf Tour where she won the Golfhäftet Masters after a playoff with Beatrice Wallin. She then won the Skaftö Open, prevailing in a playoff against Wallin and Linn Grant. With the wins, Lindblad earned a runner-up position behind Grant in the Nordic Golf Tour 2020 Order of Merit.[6]

The wins helped her rise to second spot in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, behind American Rose Zhang.[2]

In the summer of 2021 she won the European Ladies Amateur Championship in Italy, 3 strokeas ahead of Alexandra Försterling. In 2022, Lindblad had a spectacular spring as a junior at LSU, winning four out of the first five tournaments of the year. She won the SEC Women's Individual Championship by sinking a 38-foot putt for eagle on the final hole. Lindblad posted a 2-0-1 record in team match play to help LSU win its first team league title in 30 years. Reaching nine career LSU wins, she topped Jenny Lidback's previous record of seven set in the 1985–86 season.[4]

Lindblad was runner-up at the 2022 Augusta National Women's Amateur, one stroke behind winner Anna Davis. She accepted an invitation to the 2022 Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed, hosted jointly by the European Tour and Ladies European Tour and held at Halmstad Golf Club, a former Solheim Cup venue in her home town.[7]

Amateur wins
  • 2015 Junior Masters Invitational, Jönköping Junior Open by FJ
  • 2017 Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship, Stenson Sunesson Junior Challenge, Swedish Junior Classics, Bokskogen Junior Open
  • 2018 German Girls Open, Jönköping Junior Open
  • 2019 Annika Invitational USA, Teen Tour Elite #1, Magnolia Invitational
  • 2020 Florida State Match Up
  • 2021 Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, LSU Tiger Golf Classic, European Ladies Amateur Championship, Jackson T. Stephens Cup
  • 2022 Moon Golf Invitational, Clover Cup, Clemson Invitational, SEC Women's Golf Championship

Source:[2][8]

Professional wins (2)

Nordic Golf Tour (2)
No. Date Tournament Winning
score		 To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Ref
17 Aug 2020Golfhäftet Masters (as an amateur)70-65-65=200−16Playoff Beatrice Wallin[9]
229 Aug 2020Didriksons Skaftö Open (as an amateur)68-65-65=198−9Playoff Linn Grant
Beatrice Wallin		[10]

Results in LPGA majors
Tournament201920202021
ANA Inspiration
U.S. Women's Open T30
Women's PGA Championship
The Evian Championship NT
Women's British Open CUT CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

Source:[11][12]

References
  1. "Ingrid Lindblad Presentation". Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  2. "Ingrid Lindblad". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  3. "Knight bags one of 11 spots at AIG Women's British Open with help from Ashridge pro". GolfNorth. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  4. "Roster: Ingrid Lindblad". LSU Tigers. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  5. "2020 U.S. Women's Open: Inside the Field". USGA. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  6. "Linn Grant i topp på Ekerum" (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  7. "Ingrid Lindblad klar för stortävling på hemmaplan" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  8. "Ingrid Lindblad Results". Golfdata. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  9. "2020 Golfhäftet Masters". Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  10. "2020 Didriksons Skaftö Open". Golfdata. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  11. "European Team Championships". European Golf Association.
  12. "International matches". European Golf Association.
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