Veronika Beatrice Wallin (born 5 April 1999) is a Swedish

professional golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

er and

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player. As an amateur, she won the

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in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Early life and amateur career

Before focusing on golf Wallin was a swimmer, inspired by her father

Christer Wallin Bengt Christer Wallin (born 17 June 1969) is a Swedish former freestyle swimming, freestyle swimming (sport), swimmer. He won the silver medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics together Tommy Werner, Anders Holmertz a ...

who represented Sweden in the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics, winning silver medals in Barcelona (

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

) and Atlanta (

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

). Wallin joined the National Team in 2016 and was part of a golden era of Swedish success in European team championships. Her teams, which often included

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, Amanda Linnér,

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and

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, was runner-up at the 2016

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and won in 2017. They then went on to win the

in 2018, 2019 and 2020, and finished runner-up in 2021. She is attached to

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, close to

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. Wallin represented Sweden at the 2017 World Junior Girls Championship in Canada, and at The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship in 2019 with

. Individually, Wallin finished 4th at the 2015

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and won the event in 2016, which helped her qualify for the European teams at the 2016

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and the 2017

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. She was runner-up at the 2016

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(Trophée Cecile de Rothschild) and the 2017 French International Lady Juniors Amateur Championship (Trophée Esmond), and 3rd at the 2017 Portuguese Ladies Amateur. In the summer of 2020, Wallin was runner-up in three professional tournaments on the

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, the GolfUppsala Open and the Didriksons Skaftö Open behind

, and the Golfhäftet Masters behind

. She was invited to play in the 2020 U.S. Women's Open by virtue of her

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, which peaked at 4th. Wallin was 4th at the 2021 European Ladies Amateur, and finished 5th at the 2021 Didriksons Skaftö Open, a

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event.

College career

Wallin accepted a golf scholarship to

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and played with the Florida State Seminoles women's golf team from 2018 to 2022. In 2021, she won two tournaments and was named

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Golfer of the Year. In 2022, she became the first player in FSU women's golf history to win an NCAA regional outright, shooting 6-under par over the three-round event to beat Florida Atlantic's Letizia Bagnoli by one stroke. She became just the second four-time All-American in school history, after earning All-American Mention honors in 2019 and 2020, and All-American First-Team honors in 2021 and 2022. She played in the inaugural

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in 2019, finishing 7th, and finished 10th at the 2021 installment, 3 strokes behind winner Tsubasa Kajitani of Japan. In 2022, she finished tied 4th, two strokes behind winner Anna Davis. Wallin played in the

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with a 3–1 individual record.

Professional career

Wallin finished the eight-round 2021

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Q-Series tied at 60th, five shots short of a full LPGA card, but with

status. She waited until after her graduation at the end of the 2022 spring semester to turn professional. In 2023, Wallin made eight cuts in 19 events, recorded a season-best of tied 6th at the Hartford HealthCare Women's Championship, and finished 55th in the rankings. In 2024, she made 11 cuts in 17 starts and finished 67th in the rankings.

Amateur wins

*2011 Skandia Tour Regional #4, Skandia Tour Regional #5, Skandia Cup Riksfinal F13 *2012 Skandia Tour Regional #1, Skandia Cup Riksfinal F13 *2013 Innesvingen Junior Open, Chalmers Junior Open, Skandia Tour Riks #6 *2014 Sötenäs Junior Open, Torslanda Junior Open *2015 Skandia Tour Elit #1 *2016

*2021 Florida State Match Up, Pinetree Women's Collegiate *2022 NCAA Tallahassee Regional Sources:

Results in LPGA majors

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

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Sweden): 2015, 2016, 2017 (winners) *

(representing Sweden):

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 ...

(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),

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

(winners),

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 ...

(representing Europe): 2016 *

(representing Europe): 2017 * World Junior Girls Championship (representing Sweden): 2017 *

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(representing Sweden):

* The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship (representing Sweden): 2019 *

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(representing the International Team):

Source:

References

External links

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