Linnea Ström

Professional

Birthday October 14, 1996

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace Göteborg, Sweden

Age 27 years old

Nationality Sweden

Height 1.75m

#44275 Most Popular

1941

In August she finished T9 at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship and finished the season 41st on the LPGA money list.

In August 2021, Ström captained a team with Jenny Haglund and Agathe Sauzon that took a single-shot lead into the final day of the Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande.

1954

On the 54th-hole Stacy Lee Bregman holed a critical birdie that took her team to a playoff with Ström, and team captain Ashleigh Buhai won the title on the first extra hole.

In 2022, Ström divided her time between the Ladies European Tour and the Epson Tour.

On the LET, she finished solo 3rd at the Magical Kenya Ladies Open after going into the final day with a two stroke lead.

She was solo 2nd at the Madrid Ladies Open behind Ana Peláez.

On the Epson Tour, she won the IOA Championship and was runner-up at the Twin Bridges Championship.

She was the leading money winner to become Epson Tour Player of the Year and re-gain her fully exempt status on the LPGA Tour for the 2023 season.

Ström was in contention at the 2023 Lotte Championship in Hawaii.

1996

Linnea Ström (born 14 October 1996) is a Swedish professional golfer.

2011

Her best finish was T5 at the Marathon Classic and she ranked 11th in average driving distance (271.52 yards), finishing sixth in the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year standings.

2012

Ström became a member of the Swedish National Golf Team at age 13 and was part of the Swedish team winning the European Girls' Team Championship in 2012 and again in 2013.

2013

She was a member of the 2013 Junior Solheim Cup Team and the 2012 and 2014 European Junior Ryder Cup Team.

2014

Ström and Marcus Kinhult, won gold in the mixed category at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games.

She also won the 2014 Spanish International Ladies Amateur Championship, where she was runner-up the year after, as well as at the 2015 British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship.

Sharing the lead during the last round, a double bogey on the 14th saw her finish −11, one stroke away from a three-way playoff won by Grace Kim.

She closed with a 64 to finish solo second at Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, three strokes behind Ryu Hae-ran.

Ladies European Tour playoff record (0–1)

Results not in chronological order.

{{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}}

CUT = missed the half-way cut

NT = no tournament

T = tied

Amateur

Source:

2015

She qualified for the 2015 Women's British Open, her first major championship, where she did not made the cut.

2016

Ström played college golf for the Arizona State Sun Devils at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona, where she was the 2016 Pac-12 Conference Individual champion and Collegiate First Team All American 2016 and 2017.

In September 2016, Ström represented Sweden at the Espirito Santo Trophy in Mexico, were she finished as best Swedish competitor, tied 25th in a field of 163 players.

2017

She led the Sun Devils to the program's eighth NCAA Division I National Championship in 2017.

2018

She joined the U.S.-based LPGA Tour after graduating from the Symetra Tour as 2018 Rookie of the Year.

She was solo second at the 2022 Madrid Ladies Open and 2023 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.

Ranked ninth in the Women's World Amateur Golf Ranking, Ström quit ASU after 2.5 years in March 2018 to turn professional and play on the Symetra Tour, after a bout of food poisoning during the final stage of the LPGA Q-School saw her miss out on earning her LPGA card.

She won her first professional tournament in September 2018, the Sioux Falls GreatLIFE Challenge, and won the 2018 Symetra Tour Rookie of the Year award.

By finishing fifth on the 2018 Symetra Tour money list she earned membership of the LPGA Tour in October 2018.

2019

On the 2019 LPGA Tour she made 11 cuts in 22 events and ended her rookie season 84th on the money list to retain her tour card.

She earned starts at four majors and finished T26 at the 2019 ANA Inspiration.

2020

Ström started 2020 with a T4 at the ISPS Handa Vic Open, one stroke away from the playoff won by Park Hee-young, and finished third in the Australian Ladies Classic, a Ladies European Tour event.