| Ingrid Lindblad | |||||||||||||||
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 Lindblad at the2022Scandinavian Mixed | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
| Full name | Karin Ingrid Andrea Lindblad | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Iggy, Ingo | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (2000-04-11)11 April 2000 (age 25) Halmstad, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Sporting nationality |  Sweden | ||||||||||||||
| Residence | Halmstad, Sweden Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Career | |||||||||||||||
| College | Louisiana State | ||||||||||||||
| Turned professional | 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Current tour | LPGA Tour (joined 2025) | ||||||||||||||
| Former tour | Epson Tour (joined 2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Professional wins | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Number of wins by tour | |||||||||||||||
| LPGA Tour | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Epson Tour | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Other | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Best results in LPGA major championships | |||||||||||||||
| Chevron Championship | T52: 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Women's PGA C'ship | CUT: 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| U.S. Women's Open | T11: 2022 | ||||||||||||||
| Women's British Open | CUT: 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Evian Championship | T26: 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and awards | |||||||||||||||
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Karin Ingrid Andrea Lindblad (born 11 April 2000) is a Swedishprofessional golfer andLPGA Tour player. She had an exceptional amateur career and spent 53 weeks asWorld Amateur Golf Ranking number one, after winning the 2021European Ladies Amateur, finishing runner-up at the 2022Augusta National Women's Amateur, setting amateur scoring records at the2022 U.S. Women's Open, winning the World Amateur Team Championship for the2022 Espirito Santo Trophy, and collecting 15 college titles.[1][2] In the third start of her LPGA Tour rookie season, she won the 2025JM Eagle LA Championship.[3]
Lindblad grew up inHalmstad and joined the Swedish National Team in 2017. She represented her country at theEuropean Girls' Team Championship, were Sweden won the bronze in 2018. She was then part of the Swedish teams that won theEuropean Ladies' Team Championship in 2019 and 2020, teamed withFrida Kinhult,Sara Kjellker,Maja Stark,Linn Grant, andBeatrice Wallin.[2] She was a member of the 2018 EuropeanJunior Ryder Cup team and was selected for the international team at the2020 Arnold Palmer Cup and again at the2021 Arnold Palmer Cup.
She also excelled individually. In 2017 she won the Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship, and in 2018 theGerman Girls Open, ahead ofAlessia Nobilio. She was runner-up at the 2018Annika Invitational Europe and won the 2019 Annika Invitational USA.[4] In 2019, Lindblad qualified for the2019 Women's British Open, her firstmajor championship, where she fell short of the cut.[5]
Lindblad enrolled atLouisiana State University in 2019. In her freshman year, she had the best single season scoring average in LSU women's golf history at 70.33, beatingMadelene Sagström's previous record of 71.48 from 2014 to 2015.[6] She won twice individually in her pandemic-shortened freshman season, and became the first player in program history to earnSoutheastern Conference Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year honors in the same season.[7] Over her four seasons she captured 11 college titles, a school record, and 15 titles over her five seasons.[8]
Over the summer in 2020, she played on theNordic Golf Tour where she won the Golfhäftet Masters after a playoff withBeatrice Wallin. She then won theSkaftö Open, prevailing in a playoff against Wallin andLinn Grant. With the wins, Lindblad earned a runner-up position behind Grant in the Nordic Golf Tour 2020 Order of Merit.[9]
The wins helped her rise to second spot in theWorld Amateur Golf Ranking, behind AmericanRose Zhang.[4]
In the summer of 2021 she won theEuropean Ladies Amateur Championship in Italy, 3 strokes ahead ofAlexandra Försterling. In 2022, Lindblad had a spectacular spring as a junior at LSU, winning four out of the first five tournaments of the year. She won the SEC Women's Individual Championship by sinking a 38-foot putt for eagle on the final hole. Lindblad posted a 2-0-1 record in team match play to help LSU win its first team league title in 30 years. Reaching nine career LSU wins, she toppedJenny Lidback's previous record of seven set in the 1985–86 season.[6]
Lindblad appeared in four installments of theAugusta National Women's Amateur, finishing third in 2021 and 2024 and as runner-up in 2022, one stroke behind winnerAnna Davis.[10]
In the2022 U.S. Women's Open at thePine Needles Lodge and Golf Club, Lindblad finished leading amateur at tied 11th.[11] Her first round of 6 under par 65, playing together withAnnika Sörenstam and withSophie Gustafson on the bag, was the lowest round ever by an amateur in theU.S. Women's Open and the second lowest round by a European player in the history of the championship. She also beat the amateur scoring records over 36 and 54 holes and tied the 72-hole amateur record in the tournament. Her putting performance was especially noticed, as she holed 66 of 69 putts inside 10 feet and every one of 50 putts from 5 feet or less during the tournament.[12][13]
She accepted an invitation to the 2022Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed, hosted jointly by theEuropean Tour andLadies European Tour and held atHalmstad Golf Club, a formerSolheim Cup venue in her home town.[14] Men and women played from different tees and Lindblad finished tied 7th among the women and tied 33rd overall, propelling her into the top 250 in theWomen's World Golf Rankings.[15]
In August 2022, Lindblad teamed up withMeja Örtengren andLouise Rydqvist to win the World Amateur Team Championship for theEspirito Santo Trophy, beating the U.S. team withRachel Heck,Rachel Kuehn andRose Zhang through better tie-breaking non-counting score.[16][17]
Lindblad rose to number 1 in theWorld Amateur Golf Ranking in June 2023, after rivalRose Zhang turned professional. Her compatriot,Ludvig Åberg, simultaneously occupied the men's number 1 spot.[4] She won theMark H. McCormack Medal as the top-ranked golfer at the conclusion of the major tournaments of 2023. This gained her entry into the 2024U.S. Women's Open andWomen's British Open.[18] She ended her final amateur season with being namedWGCA Player of the Year and receiving the Annika Award, the Inkster Award and theHonda Sports Award.[19][20]
Lindblad turned professional in June 2024 and made her professional debut at theFireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship on theEpson Tour, having secured status at Q-School the previous fall.[21] She was runner-up at the weather-shortenedIsland Resort Championship and at theGuardian Championship,[22] before securing her maiden victory at theTuscaloosa Toyota Classic in her 7th start.[23] Despite joining mid-season and only making 9 starts, she finished 6th on the Race for the Card, to gain a fully exempt card on theLPGA Tour for the2025 season.[24]
In the third start of her LPGA Tour rookie season, Lindblad shot a nine-under 63 on her way to win theJM Eagle LA Championship at El Caballero Country Club for her first LPGA victory.[3]
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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| 1 | 20 Apr2025 | JM Eagle LA Championship | 68-63-68-68=267 | −21 | 1 stroke |  Akie Iwai |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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| 1 | 15 Sep2024 | Tuscaloosa Toyota Classic | 67-66-67=200 | −16 | 2 strokes |  Ana Belac |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 Aug2020 | Golfhäftet Masters (as an amateur) | 70-65-65=200 | −16 | Playoff | Beatrice Wallin | [26] |
| 2 | 29 Aug 2020 | Didriksons Skaftö Open (as an amateur) | 68-65-65=198 | −9 | Playoff | Linn GrantBeatrice Wallin | [27] |
| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Chevron Championship | T52 | ||||||
| U.S. Women's Open | T30 | T11LA | CUT | 35 | |||
| Women's PGA Championship | CUT | ||||||
| The Evian Championship | NT | T26 | CUT | ||||
| Women's British Open | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT |
LA = low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied
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