Ingrid Lindblad

Ingrid Lindblad (born 11 April 2000) is a Swedish amateur golfer. Twice European Ladies' Team champion, she won two professional tournaments and rose to #2 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in August 2020.[1]

Ingrid Lindblad
Personal information
Born (2000-04-11) 11 April 2000
Halmstad, Sweden
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
Evian ChampionshipDNP
Achievements and awards
SEC Freshman of the Year2019–20
SEC Player of the Year2019–20

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.

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 to 2015. 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, 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, known for sponsorship reasons as the Road to Creekhouse Ladies Open, and a spot at the Creekhouse Ladies Open at Kristianstad Golf Club on the 2021 Ladies European Tour.[6]

The wins helped her rise to second spot in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, behind American Rose Zhang.[7]

Amateur wins
  • 2015 (2) Junior Masters Invitational, Jönköping Junior Open by FJ
  • 2017 (4) Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship, Stenson Sunesson Junior Challenge, Swedish Junior Classics, Bokskogen Junior Open
  • 2018 (2) German Girls Open, Jönköping Junior Open
  • 2019 (3) Annika Invitational USA, Teen Tour Elite #1, Magnolia Invitational
  • 2020 (1) Florida State Match Up

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
Tournament20192020
ANA Inspiration
U.S. Women's Open T30
Women's PGA Championship
Women's British Open CUT
The Evian Championship NT
  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 11 October 2020.
  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. "Women's Ranking". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  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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