Marjet van der Graaff (born 22 July 1982) is a

professional golfer A professional golfer is somebody who receives payments or financial rewards in the sport of golf that are directly related to their skill or reputation. A person who earns money by teaching or playing golf is traditionally considered a "golf pr ...

from the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. She played on the

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and won the 2009

European Ladies Golf Cup The European Nations Cup was a professional team golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour that was held in Spain. It was played from 2008 to 2011, and was a stroke play Stroke play is a scoring system in the sport of golf. In the regular form ...

Career

Van der Graaff started to play golf at age 13 at Broekpolder Golf Club in

Vlaardingen Vlaardingen () is a large town and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in South Holland in the Netherlands. It is located on the north bank of the Nieuwe Maas river at the confluence with the Oude Maas. The municipality admin ...

and went to college in the Netherlands. In 2006 she won the Italian Ladies Amateur Championship and the following year she was runner-up at the Finnish Ladies Amateur Championship and won the Swiss Ladies Amateur Championship. She represented the Netherlands in the

2006 Espirito Santo Trophy The 2006 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 18–21 October at De Zalze Golf Club and Stellenbosch Golf Club in Stellenbosch in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It was the 22nd women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espiri ...

. In 2008, van der Graaff joined the

and finished the season ranked 83rd to keep her card. She secured her first professional victory by winning the 2009

by 4 strokes together with

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is a

Raiffeisenbank Prague Golf Masters and tied fourth at the Ladies Swiss Open, one stroke away from joining a three-way playoff between

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and Anja Monke. She also made three starts in the

2012 LET Access Series The 2012 LET Access Series was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through November 2012 across Europe. The LET Access Series is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in Europe and is the official developme ...

and won the Banesto Tour Zaragoza at La Peñaza GC in Zaragoza, Spain, one stroke ahead of

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In 2013, her final season on the LET, van der Graaff finished tied fourth at the

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, two strokes behind

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and

Amateur wins (2)

* 2006 Italian Ladies Amateur * 2007 Swiss Ladies Amateur

Professional wins (2)

Ladies European Tour (1)

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 ...

(with

Christel Boeljon Christel Wilhelmina Boeljon (born 30 July 1987)
is a

LET Access Series (1)

Results in LPGA majors

CUT = missed the half-way cut

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 ...

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 *

(representing Netherlands): 2009 (winner)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Graaff, Marjet van der Dutch female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Rijswijk 1982 births Living people