Louise Friberg (golfer)

Louise Friberg
— Golfer —

Friberg at the 2009 LPGA Championship
Personal information
Born (1980-06-24) 24 June 1980
Helsingborg, Sweden
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Nationality  Sweden
Residence Helsingborg, Sweden
Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Career
College University of Washington
Turned professional 2003
Current tour(s) Ladies European Tour (2007–11)
LPGA Tour (2008–11)
Former tour(s) Futures Tour (2004)
Telia Tour
Professional wins 2
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour 1
Other 1
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA Inspiration T64: 2010
Women's PGA C'ship T34: 2008
U.S. Women's Open T34: 2009
Women's British Open T33: 2007
Evian Championship DNP

Louise Friberg (born 24 June 1980) is a Swedish professional golfer who played on the Ladies European Tour (LET) and the United States-based LPGA Tour.

Amateur career

Friberg was a member of the Swedish National Team from 1996 to 1998. She was the 1997 Nordic Champion after finishing one-under par (70-70-75) for the tournament and had numerous top finishes on the Swedish Teen Tour, the Swedish Golf Tour and at junior championships.

She attended college at the University of Washington on a full golf scholarship where she was a standout golfer all four years and graduated with a degree in environmental studies in 2003.

Professional career

Friberg turned professional at the end of 2003, playing first on the Futures Tour, then the Swedish Telia Tour where she won the CA Trophy in 2005. She qualified for the Ladies European Tour for 2006. In 2007 she recorded three top-10 finishes on the Ladies European Tour and finished tied for 33rd in the Women's British Open, a major tournament on the LPGA Tour.

At the fall 2007 LPGA Qualifying Tournament, she finished tied for 9th, earning fully exempt status on the LPGA Tour for the 2008 season.

Friberg earned her first professional win[1] at the 2008 MasterCard Classic on the LPGA Tour. In the final round she shot a 7-under-par 65 to come from ten shots back. Friberg's MasterCard Classic win is tied for the largest final round comeback in LPGA Tour history.[2]

On 15 September 2011, Friberg announced she would be retiring[3] from tournament play after competing in the Navistar LPGA Classic. She did play the Kraft Nabisco Championship, from which she was exempt due to her 2008 win, in 2012 and 2013.[4]

After being out of the game for two years running a junior golf program in Sweden and giving private lessons in Arizona, Friberg attempted a comeback and competed in the LPGA Tour's Qualifying School.[5]

Professional wins (2)

LPGA Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 16 Mar 2008 MasterCard Classic –6 (72-73-65=210) 1 stroke Taiwan Yani Tseng

Other wins (1)

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order before 2014.

Tournament 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Kraft Nabisco Championship DNP CUT CUT T64 CUT CUT CUT DNP
U.S. Women's Open DNP T53 T34 CUT DNP DNP DNP DNP
Women's British Open T33 CUT DNP CUT DNP DNP DNP DNP
LPGA Championship DNP T34 CUT T64 CUT DNP DNP CUT
The Evian Championship ^ DNP DNP

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013.
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
T = tied

LPGA Tour career summary

Year Events
played 		Cuts
made 		Wins 2nds 3rds Top 10s Best
finish 		Earnings ($) Rank Scoring
average 		Scoring
rank
2007 1 1 0 0 0 0 T33 14,046 n/a 75.00 n/a
2008 24 16 1 0 0 3 1 395,051 48 72.48 59
2009 21 4 0 0 0 0 T34 34,090 236 74.63 139
2010 17 6 0 0 0 0 T23 47,447 98 73.52 97
2011 7 0 0 0 0 0 MC 0 n/a 76.07 152
2012 1 0 0 0 0 0 MC 0 n/a 76.50 n/a
2013 1 0 0 0 0 0 MC 0 n/a 75.50 n/a
2014 10 3 0 0 0 0 T24 18,904 143 72.69 99

References

  1. ↑ "Friberg a Rolex First-Time Winner at MasterCard Classic". 17 March 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Largest Final-Round Comeback on LPGA Tour". about.com. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "My last event". 15 September 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Louise Friberg comes out of retirement to shoot 71 at Kraft". LPGA. 4 April 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  5. ↑ Louise Friberg, Back in Action
  6. ↑ "Louise Friberg Results". LPGA. Retrieved 5 April 2013.

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