Tiia Koivisto

Koivisto was born in Mantsala in the greater Helsinki area and grew up next to the Hirvihaaran Golf Course. She only took up golf at age 15 after playing soccer for most of her childhood, first for the boys' team as a defender and then later on the women's as a striker.
In 2016, she won the Finnish Match Play and finished third in the Finnish Stroke Play Championship.
Koivisto turned professional in late 2016 after attending LET Q-School and started playing on the LET Access Series in 2017. She has enjoyed steady progress, with two top-10 finishes in her first season at the Azores Ladies Open and the Castellum Ladies Open, a 3rd place finish at the Anna Nordqvist Vasteras Open in 2018, to five top-10 finishes in 2019. In 2020, she finished T-11th at the Australian Ladies Classic and won the Czech Ladies Challenge to top the LETAS Order of Merit, earning promotion to the Ladies European Tour.
2021 Notes: Played in 20 LET events and was 50th on the Race to Costa Del Sol and 50th on the money list with earnings of euro44,615. She finished T-7th at the Aramco Team Series - Sotogrande and made the cut in her first LPGA Tour-sanctioned event, the ISPS Handa World Invitational in Ireland, finishing 40th.
2022 Notes: Played in 25 LET events making 17 cuts to finish 13th on the Race to Costa del Sol with three top-10 and seven top-20 results. Was T-7th at the Investec SA Women's Open and T-10th at the Madrid Ladies Open. Koivisto won the Jabra Ladies Open at the Evian Resort Golf Club in France after beating Whitney Hillier in a playoff with a birdie on the first extra hole. With her victory, Koivisto earned a place in the field for The Amundi Evian Championship, her first major, and missed the cut.
2023 Notes: She was T-8th in her defense of her Jabra Ladies Open title.