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BIO

Name: Sophie Gustafson

Born: December 27, 1973

Home Town: Sweden

Rookie Year on LPGA: 1998

Years Playing: 25

LPGA Victories (4): 2000 Chick-fil-A Charity Championship hosted by Nancy Lopez, Weetabix Women’s British Open. 2001 Subaru Memorial of Naples. 2003 Samsung World Championship.

The Solheim Cup (7): 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009.

Best score: 63

Most Top Tens/Season: 7 (2001)

2009 LPGA Status: Category 1

Professional Highlights:
2009 - Qualified for her seventh European Solheim Cup team based on her top-five ranking on the Ladies European Tour (LET) points list.

2009 - Finished runner-up at the Evian Masters Presented by Societe Generale, where she lost to Ai Miyazato in a one-hole, sudden-death playoff. Carded a season-low 66 in the second round.

2009 - Recorded a tie for seventh at the Honda LPGA Thailand.

2008 - Recorded a season-best tie for second at both the Sybase Classic Presented by ShopRite and the Safeway Classic Presented by Pepsi, where she lost to Cristie Kerr in a one-hole, sudden-death playoff

2007 - Won the Ladies European Tour (LET) Order of Merit; won the De Vere Ladies Scottish Open on the LET for her 18th career international victory.

2006 - Best finish was second at the Weetabix Women’s British Open; posted a career-low 63 in the second round of the Franklin American Mortgage Championship benefiting the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and in the final round of the Wendy’s Championship for Children; crossed the $3 million mark in career earnings at the U.S. Women’s Open, where she tied for 10th; won the Siemens Austrian Ladies Open presented by Uniqa on the LET.

2005 - Recorded a total of seven top-10 finishes, including a runner-up finish at the Weetabix Women’s British Open; as a captain’s pick, made her fifth Solheim Cup appearance and earned two points for the European Team.

2004 - Recorded a season-best tie for third at The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions; led the Tour in driving distance with an average of 270.2 yards.

2003 - Claimed her fourth career title at the Samsung World Championship; also crossed the $2 million mark in career earnings with the win; led the Order of Merit on the LET, where she won the Ladies Irish Open, HP Open and the BT Ladies Open; also won the World Matchplay Championship; won the LET’s Vivien Saunders Stroke Average trophy and was voted as the Player’s Player of the Year on the LET; was a member of the victorious European Solheim Cup Team, posting a 3-2-0 record; in November, became the first woman to compete in a men’s Japan Golf Tour event at the Casio World Open in Kaimon, Japan.

2002 - Best finish was a tie for 11th at the Weetabix Women’s British Open; was a member of the European Solheim Cup Team; recorded her third LPGA career hole-in-one during the second round of the First Union Betsy King Classic; won the Biarritz Ladies Classic on the LET.

2001 - Won her third LPGA title at the Subaru Memorial of Naples; finished second and crossed the $1 million mark in career earnings at the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship hosted by Nancy Lopez, where she lost a two-hole, suddendeath playoff with fellow Swede Annika Sorenstam; recorded the first and second holes-in-one of her LPGA career during the second round of the Evian Masters and final round of the season-ending Tyco/ADT Championship, respectively; won the AAMI Women’s Australian Open on the LET.

2000 - Became a Rolex First-Time Winner at the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship hosted by Nancy Lopez; won the Weetabix Women’s British Open; lost the Mizuno Classic in a sudden-death playoff with Lorie Kane; scored 2-1/2 points as a member of the victorious European Solheim Cup Team; won three titles on the LET and was voted the Player’s Player of the Year; also teamed with Carin Koch to win the TSN Ladies World Cup Golf.

1999 - Tied for sixth at the Weetabix Women’s British Open, where she recorded a double-eagle during the second round.

1998 - Best finish was a tie for second at the Weetabix Women’s British Open; won four international tournaments; was a member of the European Solheim Cup Team; voted as the Player’s Player of the Year on the LET.

1997 - Tied for 40th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn non-exempt status for the 1998 season; finished fifth at the Alpine Australian Ladies Masters and won the Thailand Open.

1996 - Finished 12th on the Women Professional Golfers’ European Tour (WPGET) Order of Merit; won two international titles.

1994 - Joined the WPGET and went on to win the 1995 Swiss Open and 1997 Thailand Open.

1992 - Turned professional

Bio: She is a member of U.S. based LPGA Tour and a life member of the Ladies European Tour. She has four LPGA and 22 international wins in her career. She is a two time LET Order of Merit winner and has represented Europe in the Solheim Cup in each match since 1998.

Sophie Gustafson turned professional in 1992 while studying marketing, economics and law at Aranasskolan & Komvux University in Sweden. In the next three years she played 12 Telia Tour and four Ladies European Tour tournaments. On the Telia tour she had six top ten finishes. Her best finish on the LET was a 22nd at her home tournament in Sweden.

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