Nina Pegova (, born 5 January 1994) is a Russian

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who has played on the

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Career

Pegova won the Russian Open Amateur Championship three times and was runner-up in the Finnish Amateur and Hungarian Amateur Championships. She has also won the Russian Open Professional Championship. Pegova turned professional in 2015 and joined the LET Access Series (LETAS). She lost a playoff to Linda Henriksson of Finland at the 2017 VP Bank Ladies Open in Switzerland. In 2018, she finished T7 at the Jabra Ladies Open, a dual-ranking event with the

. Pegova won her first LETAS title at the 2019 Ladies Finnish Open and finished ninth on the Order of Merit. In 2020, she played in her first

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event, the

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, where she did not make the cut. In 2021, Pegova was runner-up at the Czech Ladies Challenge, Golf Flanders LETAS Trophy and Santander Golf Tour Zaragoza, before winning the Flumserberg Ladies Open in Switzerland. She finished 3rd in the LETAS Order of Merit to earn

membership for the 2022 season.

Professional wins (3)

LET Access Series wins (2)

LET Access Series playoff record (0–1)

Santander Golf Tour wins (1)

References

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* * * * * Russian female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Chelyabinsk Oblast 1994 births Living people 21st-century Russian sportswomen {{Russia-golf-bio-stub