By Reggie Mason

Linn Grant LPGA Tour 2023 Dana Open Champion 1st Tour win 7 16 2023.mp3

Dana Open

Highland Meadows Golf Club | Sylvania, Ohio | July 13-16, 2023

In The Winner’s Circle with Linn Grant

July 16, 2023

Hometown/Resides: Helsingborg, Sweden/Viken, Sweden

Birthdate: June 20, 1999; currently 24 years, 3 weeks and 5 days

Qualified for LPGA Tour: Finished T35 in the LPGA Q-Series to earn LPGA Tour membership for the 2022 season

Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2021/2022
Caddie: Michael Curry

VICTORIES

LPGA: First career victory 

PREVIOUS LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR WINS: 2022 Joburg Ladies Open, 2022 Mithra Belgian Ladies Open, 2022 Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed, 2022 Skaftö Open and 2023 Jabra Ladies Open

RACE TO THE CME GLOBE
With her win, Grant earns 500 points and is projected to jump to No. 19 in the Race to the CME Globe

MONEY
With her win, Grant earns $262,500; she has earned $516,996 this season and $969,824 in her career.

2023 LPGA TOUR PERFORMANCE
Six events played, five cuts made; $516,996 earned with one win and one additional top-10 finish

OF NOTE

• She becomes the Tour’s sixth Rolex First-Time Winner this season, following Lilia Vu (Honda LPGA Thailand), Ruoning Yin (DIO Implant LA Open), Grace Kim (LOTTE Championship), Rose Zhang (Mizuho Americas Open) and Allisen Corpuz (U.S. Women’s Open)
• She earns her first win in her 15th career Tour start
• She earns her first career win on American soil
  • She currently has five Ladies European Tour wins
• She earns her first top-10 finish in stroke play this season and her second overall
  • Her only top-10 finish of the 2023 season came at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play event earlier this year
  • She additionally earns her sixth career top-10 finish
• She is the first player from Sweden to win on Tour since Maja Stark at the ISPS Handa World Invitational in 2022
  • She becomes the 14th different Swede to ever win on Tour
• She is the 13th different player to win on Tour this year and the first player from Sweden this season
• She becomes the second player to win on both the LPGA Tour and LET this season
  • Grant won the Jabra Ladies Open earlier this year in May
  • Ashleigh Buhai won the Investec South African Women’s Open and the ShopRite LPGA Classic presented by Acer this season

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