Kajsa Arwefjäll Explained

Kajsa Arwefjäll
Birth Date:20 June 2000
Birth Place:Tranås, Sweden
Residence:Höllviken, Sweden
Yearpro:2024
Tour:LET Access Series
Swedish Golf Tour
Prowins:3
Award1:Mountain West Player of the Year
Year1:2023, 2024
Award2:Nordic Golf Tour Order of Merit winner
Year2:2024

Kajsa Arwefjäll (born 20 June 2000) is a Swedish professional golfer and former world champion rope skipper.[1] [2]

Early life and family

Arwefjäll was born in Tranås in 2000 and moved with her family to Höllviken in 2009, where she grew up playing at Ljunghusen Golf Club. Raised in an athletic family, her mother is an accomplished skier and her father, a former professional golfer, is her coach.[3] Her brother Kasper has played ice-hockey with the Malmö Redhawks. She is a former world champion rope skipper with 21 national and international medals.[4]

Amateur career

Arwefjäll won her first international title in the 2018 Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship at Roganstown Golf & Country Club, beating her compatriot Louise Rydqvist into second by a stroke.[5] Drafted to the National Team, she competed at the 2018 European Girls' Team Championship and the 2018 Junior Golf World Cup in Japan, where she won a bronze medal together with Andrea Lignell and Ingrid Lindblad.[6] In 2021, she helped Sweden place third at Spirit International Amateur.[7]

Arwefjäll graduated from Sundsgymnasiet in 2019 and accepted an athletic scholarship to San Jose State University, where she played with the San Jose State Spartans women's golf team from 2019 to 2024. As a sophomore, she was an individual qualifier to the NCAA Championship. In her final two years she was named Mountain West Player of the Year after she finished runner-up and then won the Mountain West Championship.[8] She played in the Augusta National Women's Amateur twice and on the winning side at the 2022 Arnold Palmer Cup.[9]

Arwefjäll was runner-up at the 2020 Johannesberg Ladies Open and at the 2021 Swedish Junior Strokeplay Championship. With her father on the bag she won the 2021 GolfUppsala Open on the LET Access Series,[10] where she beat Sofie Bringner on the second hole of a playoff.[11] In 2023, she was runner-up at the Västerås Ladies Open and tied for 23rd at the Helsingborg Open, an LET event. She advanced to the quarterfinals of The Women's Amateur Championship, where she lost to world number one Ingrid Lindblad 4&3.

Professional career

Arwefjäll turned professional after she graduated in 2024, and made her pro debut at the Dormy Open Helsingborg on the Ladies European Tour. Playing in the LET Access Series, she was runner-up at the Santander Golf Tour Ávila behind Helen Briem, before winning the MoreGolf Mastercard Open ahead of compatriot Andrea Lignell. Following another victory at the Destination Gotland Ladies Open, she won the Nordic Golf Tour Order of Merit.[12]

Amateur wins

Source:[1] [13]

Professional wins (3)

LET Access Series (3)

No.DateTournamentWinning
score
To parMargin
of victory
Runner-upRef
17 Aug 2021GolfUppsala Open^ (as an amateur)69-72-72=213−6Playoff Sofie Bringner[14]
229 Jun 2024MoreGolf Mastercard Open^70-69-67=206−103 strokes Andrea Lignell[15]
216 Aug 2024Destination Gotland Ladies Open^67-67-73=208−32 strokes Brianna Navarrosa[16]
^Co-sanctioned with the Swedish Golf Tour

Team appearances

Amateur

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Player Profile Kajsa Arwefjäll . World Amateur Golf Ranking . 18 November 2021.
  2. A world champion rope skipper and rower, strange superstitions and more: (At least) 80 things you didn't know about the 80 competitors at the Spirit International . Golfweek . 18 November 2021.
  3. Web site: Niclas Arwefjäll . Golfdata . 18 November 2021.
  4. Arwefjäll förhoppningsfull inför JSM . Svensk Golf . 18 November 2021.
  5. Web site: 2018 Irish Girls U18 Open Stroke Play Championship . WAGR . 19 November 2021.
  6. VM-brons för flicklandslaget . Svensk Golf . 18 November 2021.
  7. Web site: Arwefjäll Helps Sweden to Third-Place Finish at The Spirit International . San José State Spartans . 19 November 2021.
  8. News: Ingemi . Marisa . She went from world-champion rope skipper to San Jose State golf star . 29 May 2024 . San Franscisco Chronicle . 6 May 2023.
  9. Web site: Women's Golf Roster: Kajsa Arwefjäll . San José State Spartans . 29 May 2024.
  10. Arwefjäll vann i Uppsala . Svensk Golf . 18 November 2021.
  11. Web site: Arwefjäll Triumphs At Golfuppsala Open In Playoff . LET Access Series . 19 November 2021.
  12. Web site: 2024 Ahlsell Nordic Golf Tour Ranking . Swedish Golf Federation . 16 August 2024.
  13. Web site: Kajsa Arwefjäll . Golfdata . 18 November 2021.
  14. Web site: 2021 GolfUppsala Open Results . Gofldata . 18 November 2021.
  15. Web site: 2024 MoreGolf Mastercard Open . LET Access Series . 16 August 2024.
  16. Web site: 2024 Destination Gotland Ladies Open . LET Access Series . 16 August 2024.