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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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, wghofid = , wghofyear = , award1 = NGCA Freshman of the Year , year1 = 2007 , award2 = Pac-10 Player of the Year , year2 = 2007 , award3 = Swedish Golfer of the Year , year3 = 2009, 2017, 2021 , award4 = LET Rookie of the Year , year4 = 2009 , award5 = LET Lowest stroke average , year5 = 2017 , awardssection = Anna Maria Nordqvist (born 10 June 1987) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based

and the Ladies European Tour. She has won three major championships: the 2009 LPGA Championship, the 2017 Evian Championship, and the 2021 Women's British Open. She is the only non-American woman to have won major championships in three different decades (2000s, 2010s and 2020s).

Amateur career

Born in

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, Sweden, Nordqvist was a successful amateur golfer in both Europe and the United States. She was Swedish Junior Player of the Year (2004, 2005), Swedish Amateur of the Year (2005), Girls Amateur Champion (2005), bronze medallist at the European Ladies Amateur Championship (2005), runner-up at the British Ladies Amateur in 2006 and 2007, and finally winner of the championship in her third successive final in 2008. She made the cut at the Ricoh Women's British Open in both

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and earned the Smyth Salver for low amateur honours in 2008. She was part of the winning Swedish team at the 2008 European Ladies' Team Championship and was a member of the victorious Swedish team at the 2008 World Amateur Team Championships for the Espirito Santo Trophy, finishing individual runner-up to teammate

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. By the end of her freshman year at

in 2007, she was Pac-10 co-champion and was named National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) Freshman of the Year, Pac-10 Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year. NGCA First-Team All-American and Academic All-American honors were gained in both 2007 and 2008. She tied for fifth at the 2008 NCAA Championships (won by ASU teammate Azahara Muñoz). In December 2008, she tied for 25th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament and turned professional immediately following the final round.

Professional career

Already qualified for the LPGA Tour, she also qualified for the Ladies European Tour In January 2009, by winning the Ladies European Tour Final Qualifying School. In only her fifth start on the LPGA Tour, Nordqvist won her first professional tournament and

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, the LPGA Championship in

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in June 2009. This led to her selection as a captain's pick for the Solheim Cup. In November, she won the LPGA Tour Championship for her second victory of the season. She was named Rookie of the Year on the Ladies European Tour and finished runner-up to Jiyai Shin for LPGA Rolex Rookie of the Year honors. At the 2013 Solheim Cup, Nordqvist won her alternate shot match with

with a hole-in-one at the 17th hole, beating Morgan Pressel and Jessica Korda 2 and 1 during the Saturday morning session. This was the first hole-in-one in Solheim Cup history. At the end of May 2015, Nordqvist won her fifth official tournament on the LPGA Tour. She birdied the second-to-last hole and bogeyed the 54th hole to win by one stroke over Dutchwoman Christel Boeljon in Galloway, New Jersey. At the 2016 U.S. Women's Open, Nordqvist lost to Brittany Lang in a playoff due to a rules violation, for touching the sand with the club in a bunker. The rules violation occurred on the second of three playoff holes but was not disclosed to the players until mid-way through play on the third hole. In September 2017, she won her second major, The Evian Championship in France, after overcoming American Brittany Altomare in a play-off in horrendous weather conditions. In August 2021, she won her third major by winning the Women's British Open at Carnoustie Golf Links in

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, Scotland. For 2021, she had won only $283,715 in 14 tournaments before her $870,000 winning share from it, leaping to $1,153,715 and sixth place. With the win, she became only the second golfer, after Georgia Hall, to win

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treble - the Girls Amateur, British Ladies Amateur and Women's British Open. Nordqvist won the 2022 Big Green Egg Open in The Netherlands, her first individual success on the Ladies European Tour outside of the majors. Nordqvist was named captain of the 2026 European Solheim Cup team in February 2025.

Personal life

Nordqvist lives in

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Amateur wins

*2005 Girls Amateur Championship *2008 British Ladies Amateur Championship

Professional wins (16)

LPGA Tour wins (9)

Co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour. LPGA Tour playoff record (1–1)

Ladies European Tour wins (5)

Co-sanctioned by the

. Ladies European Tour playoff record (2–2)

Swedish Golf Tour wins (3)

Other wins (1)

*2010 (1) The Mojo 6 (unofficial tournament sanctioned by the

)

Major championships

Wins (3)

¹ Defeated Brittany Altomare in a sudden-death playoff: Nordqvist (5) and Altomare (6).

Results timeline

''Results not in chronological order.'' ^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013 LA = low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 14 (2019 British Open – 2022 Evian) *Longest streak of top-10s – 4 (2014 WPGA – 2015 WPGA)

LPGA Tour career summary

Official as of 2024 season
* Includes match play and other events without a cut

World ranking

Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.

Team appearances

Amateur * European Girls' Team Championship (representing Sweden): 2005 * Junior Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 2005 * Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Sweden):

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

(winners) * Vagliano Trophy (representing the Continent of Europe): 2007 (winners) * European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Sweden):

(winners) Professional * Solheim Cup (representing Europe):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

(winners),

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

(winners),

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

(winners),

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

(tied, cup retained, playing vice-captain),

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

(playing vice-captain) * European Nations Cup (representing Sweden): 2010 (winners), 2011 (winners) * International Crown (representing Sweden):

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Solheim Cup record

References

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