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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Wessberg, Linda
Wessberg, Linda
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. LPGA, Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, with headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida runs a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world from February to November each year. The LPGA was founded in 1950 by a group of 13 women. LPGA Tour's events are held in the United States.
Wessberg, Linda was born on 13th June 1980 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her height is 5 foot 8 inches. She started playing golf at the age of 10. Her rookie year was 2006 and she has 4 international victories. While at Oklahoma State University, she won the 1999 Road Runner Invitational. In 2001, she was the Swedish Junior Champion, a member of the victorious Ladies European Team and the 2002 Swedish Team Champion. She also finished sixth at the 2003 National Collegiate Athletic association, NCAA Championship.
She turned professional in June 2003 and competed in the Telia Tour and won the Felix Finnish Ladies Open and was the Swedish Match Play Champion. She was named Telia Tour Newcomer of the Year and Player of the Year. In 2004, she won the Swedish PGA Championship and Telia Tour Final and recorded three top-five finishes on the Ladies European Tour, LET, including second at the Ladies Open of Portugal. In 2005, she tied for 65th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament presented by American Airlines to earn non-exempt status for the 2006 LPGA Tour season.
The desire to use her talents for the Glory and Honor of her God and Country propelled her in an attempt to excel at the highest level of sporting achievement to inspire future generations of her countrymen to do the same upholding the highest standards of patriotic fervor.
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