Christel Wilhelmina Boeljon (born 30 July 1987)
is a

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from the

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, currently playing on the

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and the U.S.-based

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Amateur career

Boeljon was born in

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. One day she joined her parents for a visit to the Golfclub Spaarnwoude, and two years later she gave up

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and concentrated on golf. In 2005, she continued her studies in the United States and accepted a golf

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. In her first 25 tournaments she played 24 rounds under par. ;Highlights * 2002: won Mevrouw Swanebeker, won Dutch Junior Masters * 2003: won National Match Play U-21 * 2004: runner-up National Stroke Play U-21, runner-up Stern Open * 2005: won National Stroke Play U-21, semi-finalist in British Ladies Amateur * 2006: won Dutch International Junior Open at Toxandria * 2007: best Dutch player at the Dutch Ladies Open * 2008: 8th at the Ladies Dutch Open at Eindhoven, won National Stroke Play

Professional career

Boeljon turned professional in

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, when she returned from Purdue. She went to the

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in 2008, won the first stage and finished 4th at the final stage in 2009. She began well, she made the cut at the

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in Australia and finished 41st. In April, she won the European Ladies Golf Cup together with

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. In June she again won the National Stroke Play. She made the cut at the

2009 Women's British Open The 2009 Women's British Open was held 30 July – 2 August at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lancashire, England. It was the 33rd Women's British Open and the ninth as a major championship on the LPGA Tour. Catriona Matthew won her on ...

and finished 57th. In 2011, she played her first major in the United States, the Kraft Nabisco Championship and finished 15th. A few weeks later she won the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open in Belek, then finished 2nd at the

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, which was good enough to become the leader of the Ladies European Tour money list.

Professional wins (4)

Ladies European Tour (4)

Results in LPGA majors

''Results not in chronological order before 2015.'' ^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013 CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2011 Kraft Nabisco – 2012 LPGA) *Longest streak of top-10s – 0

Ladies European Tour career summary

* as of 2014 season

LPGA Tour career summary

*official through the 2016 season

World ranking

Position in

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at the end of each calendar year.

Team appearances

Amateur * European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Netherlands):

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2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

Espirito Santo Trophy The Espirito Santo Trophy (World Women's Amateur Team Championships) is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964. It was instituted by the Fre ...

(representing Netherlands): 2006,

Professional * European Ladies Golf Cup: 2009 (winner) * Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 2011 (winners)

Solheim Cup record

References

External links

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Purdue Sports.com
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