Emily Kristine Pedersen (born 7 March 1996) is a Danish

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who plays on the

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and

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.Profile on Ladies European Tour's official site
/ref> She had a successful amateur career winning the 2013 International European Ladies Amateur Championship and the 2014

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. Turning professional in early 2015 she had a successful first season, finishing runner-up in the Deloitte Ladies Open and the

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before winning the Hero Women's Indian Open. She was named LET Rookie of the Year for 2015. Pedersen earned her card for the 2022

through

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. She made only the second hole-in-one in Solheim Cup history in

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on the 12th hole in the afternoon four-ball on 22 September 2023.

Amateur wins

*2010 Mølleån Open, Danish Match Play, Royal Tour Damer III *2011 Doral Publix Junior Classic (14–15) *2012 Furesøpokalen, DGU Elite Tour Damer III, Doral-Publix Junior Classic *2013 Spanish Ladies Amateur, German Girls Open, International European Ladies Amateur Championship, DGU Elite Tour Damer Finale, Doral-Publix Junior Classic (16–18) *2014

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Source:

Professional wins (6)

Ladies European Tour wins (5)

¹ Co-sanctioned by Ladies Asian Golf Tour LET playoff record (1–2)

Danish Golf Tour wins (1)

Results in LPGA majors

''Results not in chronological order.'' CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 3 (twice) *Longest streak of top-10s – 0

World ranking

Position in

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at the end of each calendar year.

Team appearances

Amateur * European Girls' Team Championship (representing the Denmark): 2011, 2012 * Junior Vagliano Trophy: (representing the Continent of Europe): 2011 (winners) * Junior Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 2012, 2014 * European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Denmark):

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

* Junior Solheim Cup: (representing Europe): 2013 *

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(representing the Continent of Europe): 2013 (winners) *

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 Denmark):

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

Professional * The Queens (representing Europe): 2015 *

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):

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

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 ...

(winners),

(tie, cup retained),

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

Solheim Cup record

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pedersen, Emily Kristine Danish female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers LPGA Tour golfers Solheim Cup competitors for Europe Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships Olympic golfers for Denmark Golfers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Golfers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Golfers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Golfers from Copenhagen 1996 births Living people 21st-century Danish sportswomen