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

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* 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

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 ...

, 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 ANZ Ladies Masters in

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and finished 41st. In April, she won the European Ladies Golf Cup together with Marjet van der Graaff. 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 Women's major golf championships, major championship on the LPGA Tour ...

and finished 57th. In 2011, she played her first

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in the United States, the

Kraft Nabisco Championship The Chevron Championship is a professional women's golf tournament. An event on the LPGA Tour, it is one of the tour's five major championships, and has traditionally been the first of the season since its elevation to major status in 1983. Sinc ...

and finished 15th. A few weeks later she won the

Turkish Airlines Ladies Open The Turkish Airlines Ladies Open was a professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour that was held at the National Golf Club in Belek, Antalya Province, Antalya, Turkey. It was first played in 2008 but was cancelled the following year due ...

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, then finished 2nd at the Ladies Slovak Open, 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 The European Ladies' Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for women organised by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1959. It was played in odd-numbered years from 1959 to 2007 and has been pl ...

(representing Netherlands):

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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 Fren ...

(representing Netherlands):

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 ...

Professional * European Ladies Golf Cup: 2009 (winner) *

Solheim Cup The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. It is named after the Norwegian- American golf club manufacturer Karsten Solheim, who was a driving forc ...

(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)

Solheim Cup record

References

External links

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