Anna Iliana Maria Gabriella Oxenstierna (born 13 June 1963) is a retired Swedish

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and

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player. She won the

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twice and the

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TEC Players Championship in England.

Early life and family

Born into an athletic and golfing family, her father Thure Gabriel

Oxenstierna The Oxenstierna family ( , ) is a Swedish nobility, Swedish noble family, originally from Småland in southern Sweden, and is part of the Swedish ''uradel'', the ancient nobility. History The Oxenstierna family held vast estates in Södermanl ...

is the architect of Roslagen Golf Club, where her brother Alexander later became the general manager. Her grandfather

Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna Count Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (19 July 1750 – 29 July 1818) is considered one of the foremost Sweden, Swedish poets of the History of Sweden (1772–1809), Gustavian period. A prominent courtier during the reign of King Gustav III of Sweden, ...

won gold in

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at the

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Amateur career

Oxenstierna joined the Swedish National Team in 1978 and represented Sweden five times at the

, winning the 1981 and 1984 editions and finishing runner-up in 1982 and 1983. She finished third at the 1983

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in Waterloo, Belgium, and fourth at the 1985 edition in Stavanger, Norway. She formed the Swedish team, with

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and Viveca Hoff, that finished seventh at the 1984

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. Individually, she won the 1983

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, at the time the most prestigious amateur tournament in the nation. She also won the 72-hole tournament Pierre Robert Cup at

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in both 1981 and 1984. She was semi-finalist at the

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in 1988 and 1994.

Professional career

Oxenstierna turned professional ahead of the 1987 season and played on the

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where she was runner-up at the 1987 Delsjö Ladies Open. She finished the 1987 season third on Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit, and in 1988 she finished second, behind Sofia Grönberg. In 1989 she won the IBM Ladies Open and

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. Oxenstierna also joined the

, where she won the 1989 TEC Players Championship two strokes ahead of

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, to become the fifth Swedish LET winner after

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, Marie Wennersten,

and Sofia Grönberg. In 1990 she was runner-up at the WPG European Tour Classic, 2 strokes behind Tania Abitbol of Spain.

Amateur wins

*1981 Pierre Robert Cup *1983

*1984 Pierre Robert Cup

Professional wins (3)

Ladies European Tour (1)

Swedish Golf Tour (2)

Source:

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Sweden): 1980, 1981 (winners), 1982, 1983, 1984 (winners) *

(representing Sweden):

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(representing Sweden):

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

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(representing the Continent of Europe): 1985 Source:

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oxenstierna, Anna Swedish female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Golfers from Stockholm 1963 births Living people 20th-century Swedish sportswomen