Christel Boeljon

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Christel Boeljon
LPGA Tour (joined 2011)
Professional wins4
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour4
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT15: 2011
Women's PGA C'shipT23: 2012
U.S. Women's OpenCUT: 2012, 2013, 2014
Women's British OpenT47: 2013
Evian ChampionshipCUT: 2013, 2014

Christel Wilhelmina Boeljon (born 30 July 1987)

LPGA Tour
.

Amateur career

Boeljon was born in Beverwijk. One day she joined her parents for a visit to the Golfclub Spaarnwoude, and two years later she gave up field hockey and concentrated on golf. In 2005, she continued her studies in the United States and accepted a golf scholarship to Purdue University in Indiana.[1] In her first 25 tournaments she played 24 rounds under par.

Highlights
  • 2002: won Mevrouw Swanebeker, won Dutch Junior Masters
  • 2003: won National Match Play U-21
  • 2004: runner-up National Stroke Play U-21, runner-up Stern Open
  • 2005: won National Stroke Play U-21, semi-finalist in
    British Ladies Amateur
  • 2006: won Dutch International Junior Open at Toxandria
  • 2007: best Dutch player at the Dutch Ladies Open
  • 2008: 8th at the Ladies Dutch Open at Eindhoven, won National Stroke Play

Professional career

Boeljon turned professional in

European Ladies Golf Cup together with Marjet van der Graaff. In June she again won the National Stroke Play. She made the cut at the 2009 Women's British Open
and finished 57th.

In 2011, she played her first

, which was good enough to become the leader of the Ladies European Tour money list.

Professional wins (4)

Ladies European Tour (4)

No. Date Tournament Winning
score
To par Margin
of victory
Runner(s)-up Winner's
share ()
1 8 May 2011
Turkish Airlines Ladies Open
73-71-70-73=287 –5 3 strokes England Florentyna Parker
Wales Becky Brewerton
37,500
2 5 Feb 2012
Gold Coast RACV Australian Ladies Masters
66-65-68-68=267 –21 1 stroke
So Yeon Ryu
63,631
3 13 May 2012
Turkish Airlines Ladies Open
70-73-69-73=285 –7 3 strokes Finland Ursula Wikström 37,500
4 21 Jun 2015
Deloitte Ladies Open
69-69-71=209 –10 4 strokes Finland Ursula Wikström
Denmark Emily Kristine Pedersen
37,500

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order before 2015.

Tournament 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
ANA Inspiration
T15 T56 T41 T55 CUT
Women's PGA Championship T57 T23 CUT CUT CUT CUT
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT CUT
Women's British Open T57 CUT T54 CUT T47 CUT
The Evian Championship ^ CUT CUT

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
ANA Inspiration
0 0 0 0 0 1 5 4
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 2
U.S. Women's Open 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Women's British Open 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3
The Evian Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals 0 0 0 0 0 2 22 9
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2011 Kraft Nabisco – 2012 LPGA)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 0

Ladies European Tour career summary

Year Tournaments
played
Cuts
made
Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish
Earnings
()
Money
list rank
Scoring
average
Scoring
rank
2004 1 0 0 0 0 0 CUT n/a 77.50
2006 1 1 0 0 0 0 T55 73.67
2007 1 1 0 0 0 0 T11 71.00
2008 1 1 0 0 0 1 T10 70.33
2009 17 14 0 0 0 1 T5 48,893 35 72.45 37
2010 20 14 0 3 1 7 T2 121,959 12 72.33 35
2011 15 13 1 2 1 6 1 161,172 8 70.92 13
2012 6 3 2 0 0 2 1 104,884 13 72.00
2013 7 6 0 0 0 1 5 38,731 72.96
2014 5 2 0 0 0 1 T4 14,650 73.83
  • as of 2014 season

LPGA Tour career summary

Year Tournaments
played
Cuts
made
Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish
Earnings
($)
Money
list rank
Scoring
average
Scoring
rank
2011 14 12 0 0 0 2 T9 170,553 52 72.31 14
2012 20 10 0 0 0 0 T23 89,817 81 73.47 91
2013 20 14 0 0 0 1 T7 163,260 67 72.38 63
2014 20 10 0 0 0 1 T7 120,064 84 72.64 98
2015 12 7 0 1 0 1 2 157,280 78 73.73 130
2016 17 5 0 0 0 1 T6 61,606 114 73.31 137

World ranking

Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.

Year World
ranking
Source
2007 648 [3]
2008 703 [4]
2009 274 [5]
2010 118 [6]
2011 63 [7]
2012 82 [8]
2013 143 [9]
2014 192 [10]
2015 94 [11]
2016 221 [12]

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

  • European Ladies Golf Cup
    : 2009 (winner)
  • Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 2011 (winners)

Solheim Cup record

Year Total
Matches
Total
W-L-H
Singles
W-L-H
Foursomes
W-L-H
Fourballs
W-L-H
Points
Won
Points
%
Career 3 1-2-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 1.0 33.3
2011 3 1-2-0 1-0-0 def. B. Lincicome 2 up 0-1-0 lost w/ K. Stupples 3&2 0-1-0 lost w/ S. Gal 2&1 1.0 33.3

References

  1. ^ a b LET profile Archived 2011-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Christel Boeljon results". LPGA. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
  3. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 25, 2007.
  4. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 30, 2008.
  5. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 29, 2009.
  6. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 28, 2010.
  7. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 27, 2011.
  8. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 31, 2012.
  9. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 30, 2013.
  10. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 29, 2014.
  11. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 28, 2015.
  12. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 26, 2016.

External links