Elisabeth Esterl (born 29 August 1976) is a German professional

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er. Esterl was born in

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. She turned professional in 1997 and joined the

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(LET) soon afterwards. She has won two LET tournaments, the 2003 Tenerife Ladies Open and the 2004 KLM Ladies Open. Her best year was 2003, when she finished second on the LET Order of Merit and played for Europe in the

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Professional wins (3)

Ladies European Tour wins (2)

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

Tenerife Ladies Open *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

KLM Ladies Open

Other wins (1)

*2000 Princess Lalla Meryem Cup

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 Germany):

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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 Germany):

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 ...

Professional *

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(representing Germany): 2005

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* German female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Solheim Cup competitors for Europe People from Dingolfing-Landau Sportspeople from Lower Bavaria 1976 births Living people 20th-century German women 21st-century German women {{Germany-golf-bio-stub