Lotta Wahlin

Lotta Wahlin
Personal information
Born (1983-12-13) 13 December 1983 (age 41)
Linköping, Sweden
Height176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Sporting nationality Sweden
ResidenceLinköping, Sweden
Career
Turned professional2004
Former tour(s)Ladies European Tour (2006–2012)
Swedish Golf Tour (2004–2011)
Professional wins8
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour2
Other6
Best results in LPGA major championships
Women's British OpenT42: 2007

Lotta Wahlin (born 13 December 1983 in Linköping) is a retired Swedish professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour 2006–2012 and won three events in 2008.[1]

Professional career

Wahlin turned professional in June 2004, as she took a step up from the Teen Tour Elite circuit to join the Swedish Golf Tour. Between 2005 and 2010 she won five titles on the tour, including back-to-back victories in the Rejmes Ladies Open, and a triumph in the final of the Swedish Matchplay Championship against Kaisa Ruuttila.[2]

Wahlin joined the LET in 2005 after she earned limited status at Q-School. Her most successful season was in 2008, when she won three events and finished the season 7th on the LET Order of Merit. She cruised to her maiden LET victory with a wire-to-wire win at the inaugural Turkish Ladies Open. Her 12 stroke winning margin was the second largest in LET history, after Laura Davies' 16 shot margin over Åsa Gottmo in the 1995 Ladies Irish Open.[1]

She also won the Wales Ladies Championship of Europe by defeating Martina Eberl at the second hole of a playoff, as well as the Catalonia Ladies Masters in Spain, an unofficial LET event she won with a 6 stroke margin over Rebecca Hudson, Paula Marti and Tania Elósegui.[1]

In late 2009, Wahlin was diagnosed with cancer, which meant she missed most of the 2010 season and was forced to play in the cooler climate of the Swedish Golf Tour (at the time named the Nordea Tour). She returned to the LET in 2011 to record a 66 (–6) at the Dubai Ladies Masters, giving her the first round lead.[3]

Following another setback with a back injury in 2011 she announced her retirement in 2012 at age 28, and the Raiffeisenbank Prague Golf Masters in June 2012 was her last event on the Ladies European Tour.[4][5]

Professional wins (8)

Ladies European Tour (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 11 May 2008 Turkish Ladies Open 71-71-73-70=285 –3 12 strokes South Africa Stacy Lee Bregman
Sweden Johanna Johansson
Spain Paula Marti
2 17 Aug 2008 Wales Ladies Championship of Europe 71-67-71=209 –7 Playoff Germany Martina Eberl

Swedish Golf Tour (5)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 27 May 2005 Booz Allen Nordic Classic 69-71=140 –4 4 strokes Sweden Anna Berg
2 9 Jul 2005 Rejmes Ladies Open 71-67-74=212 –4 3 strokes Sweden Mikaela Bäckstedt (a)
Sweden Caroline Larsson (a)
3 19 Aug 2006 Rejmes Ladies Open 70-72-69=211 –5 1 stroke Norway Marianne Skarpnord
4 10 Jul 2010 Körunda Ladies Open 72-72-69=213 –3 3 strokes Sweden Mikaela Parmlid
5 21 Aug 2010 SM Match Play 3 & 1 Finland Kaisa Ruuttila

Other wins (1)

Team appearances

Professional

References

  1. ^ a b c "2009 LET Tour Guide". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Wahlin och Aronsen matchmästare" (in Swedish). Svensk Golf. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  3. ^ Lotta Wahlin Shows Lots Of Spirit After Cancer Scare To Lead Dubai Ladies Masters, Golf by TourMiss, December 2012
  4. ^ a b "Lotta Wahlin calling time on her career". Ladies European Tour. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Lotta Wahlin quits" (in Swedish). Svensk Golf. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2022.