Ingrid Lindblad

She shot 70 in qualifying at Hankley Common to finish T-8th. Was in a playoff with 13 players for the remaining five spots and won a spot)

Lindblad grew up in Halmstad, on the west coast of Sweden on along the Kattegat Sea. She began playing golf when she was 5, and joined the Swedish National Team in 2017. She represented her country at the European Girls' Team Championship, where Sweden won the bronze in 2018. She was then part of the Swedish teams that won the European Ladies Team Championship in 2019 and 2020, teamed with Frida Kinhult, Sara Kjellker, Maja Stark, Linn Grant, and Beatrice Wallin. She was a member of the 2018 European Junior Ryder Cup team and was selected for the international team at the 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup.
She also excelled individually. In 2017 she won the Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship, the Stenson Sunesson Junior Challenge, and the Swedish Junior Classics. In 2018 she won the German Girls Open. She was runner-up at the 2018 Annika Invitational Europe and won the 2019 Annika Invitational USA. In 2019, Lindblad qualified for the 2019 Women's British Open, her first major championship, where she fell short of the cut. She also played in the 2020 U.S. Women's Open, missing the cut.
Lindblad was a freshman at Louisiana State University in 2019-20, following in the footsteps of compatriot Madelene Sagstrom. In her freshman year, she had the best single-season scoring average in LSU women's golf history at 70.33, beating Sagstrom's previous record of 71.48 from 2014 to 2015. In her pandemic-shortened freshman season, she won two individual tournaments, the Magnolia Invitational, and the Florida State Match-Up. Lindblad became the first player in program history to earn Southeastern Conference Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year honors in the same season.
Over the summer of 2020, she played on the Nordic Golf Tour, where she won the GolfhAftet Masters after a playoff with Beatrice Wallin. She then won the Skafto Open in a playoff against Wallin and Linn Grant. With the wins, Lindblad earned a runner-up position behind Grant in the Nordic Golf Tour 2020 Order of Merit, known for sponsorship reasons as the Road to Creekhouse Ladies Open, and a spot at the Creekhouse Ladies Open at Kristianstad Golf Club on the 2021 Ladies European Tour. She played in the LET Didrinksons Skafto Open, finishing T-6th.
Lindblad played in the 2021 Augusta National Women's Amateur and finished T-3rd, a shot back of the Tsubasa Kajitani and Emilia Migliaccio playoff. At the end of July played in the European Ladies Amateur Championship in Italy and won by three shots over Alexandra Fosterling.
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 topped Jenny Lidback's previous record of seven set in the 1985-86 season.
Lindblad was runner-up at the 2022 Augusta National Women's Amateur, one shot behind winner Anna Davis. At the 2022 U.S. Women's Open held at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina, Lindblad finished leading amateur atT-11th. Her first round of 6 under par 65, playing together with Annika Sorenstam and with Sophie Gustafson on the bag, was the lowest round ever by an amateur in the U.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.
She accepted an invitation to the 2022 Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed, hosted jointly by the European Tour and Ladies European Tour and held at Halmstad Golf Club, a former Solheim Cup venue in her hometown. Men and women played from different tees, and Lindblad finished T-7th among the women and T-33rd overall. In August 2022, Lindblad was part of the Swedish team winning the World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy, beating team United States, with the better tie-breaking non-counting score. In 35 career starts for LSU since the start of her freshman season in 2019, Lindblad has 32 top-15 finishes, including a program-record 11 victories, She had one finish outside the top-15 as a freshman, as a sophomore and as a junior. She has none so far as a senior.
2023 Notes: In her third Augusta National Women's Amateur missed the cut with rounds of 78-74. At the NCAA Women's Championship was T-5th, three shots back of winner Rose Zhang.
In June took over the number one spot in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. Lindblad becomes the 19th golfer to go number on in the rankings since they began in 2011. In the Women's Amateur held at Prince's, she lost in the semi-finals to Chiara Horder 4 & 3. In the European Ladies Amateur was 3rd, three shots back of the winner Julia Lopez Ramirez.