Suzann Pettersen

Suzann Pettersen

Pettersen at the 2009 LPGA Championship
Personal information
Full name Suzann Pettersen
Nickname Tutta
Born 7 April 1981 (1981-04-07) (age 30)
Oslo, Norway
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Nationality  Norway
Residence Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Career
Turned professional 2000
Current tour(s) LPGA Tour (joined 2003)
Ladies European Tour (joined 2001)
Professional wins 14
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour 8
Ladies European Tour 5
Other 1
Best results in LPGA Major Championships
(Wins: 1)
Kraft Nabisco C'ship T2/2nd: 2007, 2008, 2010
LPGA Championship Won: 2007
U.S. Women's Open T2: 2010
Women's British Open T14: 2010
Achievements and awards
Ladies European Tour
Rookie of the Year		 2001

Suzann Pettersen (born 7 April 1981) is a Norwegian professional golfer. She plays mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour, and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Her career best world ranking is second. She has held that position at several times, most recently beginning 22 August 2011.

Contents

Amateur career

Pettersen was born in Oslo, Norway.[1] Both her parents, Axel and Mona, participated in sports.[2] Suzann Pettersen is a distant relative of merchant Gunerius Pettersen (1826–1892).[3]

She was a successful amateur golfer. She is a five-time Norwegian Amateur Champion (1996–2000), and won the British Girls Championship in 1999.[1][4] She represented Norway in the Espirito Santo Trophy World Amateur Team Championship in 1998 and 2000, becoming World Amateur Champion in her second appearance.[5] She also represented Europe in the 1997 and 1999 Junior Ryder Cup Matches.[6]

Professional career

2001

Pettersen turned professional in September 2000 at age 19 and gained her Ladies European Tour card with an 11th place finish at the 2001 LET Qualifying School.[1] In her 2001 rookie season, she played in ten events without missing a cut. In her second start as a professional,Pettersen won the Open de France Dames in a playoff over Becky Morgan.[7] She finished second on the Order of Merit and was named LET Rookie of the Year.[8]

2002

Pettersen started 2002 with a playoff loss to Karrie Webb in the AAMI Australian Women’s Open, and two more top ten finishes led to her winning a place on the European team for the 2002 Solheim Cup.[9][10][11] In the singles, Pettersen was five down with five to play and ended up with a tie against Michele Redman.[12] She tied for 10th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn exempt status for the 2003 LPGA season.[13]

2003

In 2003 Pettersen played in five events on the LET, missing no cuts and finished runner-up to Sophie Gustafson at the HP Open.[14] She played a full rookie season on the LPGA, with her best finish a third place at the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship.[4] She was a captain's pick for the 2003 Solheim Cup and recorded a 4–1–0 record as a member of the victorious European Team.[15]

2004

In 2004 Pettersen played in just four events on the LET, with a best finish of T9 at the Evian Masters. On the LPGA, she began her season late after recuperating from elbow surgery. She recorded four top-10 finishes including a season-best tie for fifth at the State Farm Classic.[1]

2005

In 2005 Pettersen played in only three events on the LET and nine events on the LPGA because of a debilitating back injury. When she returned, her best LPGA finish was a sixth at the John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic, and she finished tied for second at the Ladies Finnish Masters on the LET.[1][4] She registered a 2–0–2 record as a captain’s pick on the European Solheim Cup Team, and played for the International team at the inaugural Lexus Cup.[16][17][18]

2006

In 2006 Pettersen played five times on the LET, recording two top ten finishes, including a third place at the Scandinavian TPC.[19] On the LPGA Tour she had three top ten finishes, with a season's best finish fifth at the Florida's Natural Charity Championship.[4]

2007

At the start of 2007, Pettersen was selected to represent Norway at the Women's World Cup of Golf but withdrew due to illness before the event started.[20] At the Safeway International she recorded her then-best finish on the LPGA Tour, second place, two strokes behind Lorena Ochoa. A late collapse at the Kraft Nabisco saw her equal that finish, her second best at a major.[8][21] Pettersen became the first Norwegian LPGA winner at the 2007 Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill, beating Jee Young Lee in a playoff.[22] Pettersen followed up this win by capturing the second major championship of 2007, the LPGA Championship, by one stroke over Karrie Webb, which moved her up to fourth in the Women's World Golf Rankings. On the Ladies European Tour she won the SAS Masters in her native Norway.[23] In October at the Longs Drugs Challenge she won her third LPGA victory, beating Lorena Ochoa in a playoff and then claimed wins number four and five in Korea and Thailand.[24][25] On 31 December 2007, Pettersen reached the number two position in the Women's World Golf Rankings, surpassing Karrie Webb and Annika Sörenstam, trailing only Lorena Ochoa.

2008

In January 2008 Pettersen signed a multi-year agreement with Nike Golf to represent Nike in clubs, balls, footwear, glove and bag.[26] Her first win of 2008 came at the rain-shortened Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open.[27]

2009

In September 2009, Pettersen won her sixth LPGA Tour event and first in two years at the CN Canadian Women's Open at Priddis Greens Golf & Country Club in Calgary, Alberta. Pettersen won the event by five strokes over Karrie Webb, Momoko Ueda, Morgan Pressel, Ai Miyazato and Angela Stanford.

2010

Pettersen was a runner-up six times on the LPGA Tour in 2010, but did not record a victory.

2011

Pettersen broke her 20-month victory drought in May, when she captured the Sybase Match Play Championship at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in New Jersey. Playing in cool, rainy conditions, she won all six of her 18-hole matches over four days, and defeated, among others, then-world number one Yani Tseng in the quarter-finals, and Cristie Kerr in the finals. In early August, she won the Ladies Irish Open on the LET with a 198 (-18), six shots clear of the field. It was Pettersen's first victory on the LET in 3 years, her last was the same tournament in 2008, played at Portmarnock Links. In her next start two weeks later, Pettersen won again on the LPGA Tour at the Safeway Classic in Oregon. She came from nine shots back at the start of the final round and shot a 64 (-7) to force a playoff against second round leader Na Yeon Choi. Pettersen won on the first extra hole with a par after Choi put her approach shot in the water to double bogey. The victory moved her world ranking up to #2, ahead of Cristie Kerr and behind only Yani Tseng.

Professional wins (14)

Ladies European Tour (5)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner-up Winner's
share (€)
1 7 Jun 2001 Open de France Dames 71–70–70–69=280 -8 Playoff Becky Morgan 24,450
2 26 Aug 2007 SAS Masters 64–72–68=204 -12 9 strokes Nikki Garrett 30,000
3 25 May 2008 Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open 67–63–64=194 -22 6 strokes Amy Yang 78,750
4 13 Jul 2008 AIB Ladies Irish Open 69–69–67=205 -11 5 strokes Marianne Skarpnord 65,000
5 7 Aug 2011 Ladies Irish Open 71-63-64=198 -18 6 strokes Azahara Muñoz 60,000

LPGA Tour (8)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Winner's
share ($)
1 13 May 2007 Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill 66–72–68–68=274 -10 Playoff Jee Young Lee 330,000
2 10 Jun 2007 McDonald's LPGA Championship 69–67–71–67=274 -14 1 stroke Karrie Webb 300,000
3 7 Oct 2007 Longs Drugs Challenge 75–65–64–73=277 -11 Playoff Lorena Ochoa 160,000
4 21 Oct 2007 Hana Bank-KOLON Championship 69–72=141 -3 1 stroke Eun-Hee Ji 223,000
5 28 Oct 2007 Honda LPGA Thailand 65–68–63–71=267 -21 1 stroke Laura Davies 195,000
6 6 Sep 2009 CN Canadian Women's Open 65–68–66–70=269 -15 5 strokes Momoko Ueda
Morgan Pressel
Ai Miyazato
Angela Stanford
Karrie Webb		 412,500
7 22 May 2011 Sybase Match Play Championship 1 up Cristie Kerr 375,000
8 21 Aug 2011 Safeway Classic 69-74-64=207 -6 Playoff Na Yeon Choi 225,000

LPGA major is shown in bold

Other wins (1)

Major championships

Wins (1)

No. Year Championship Winning Score To par Margin
of victory		 Runner-up Winner's
share ($)
1 2007 McDonald's LPGA Championship 69–67–71–67=274 -14 1 stroke Karrie Webb 300,000

Results timeline

Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Kraft Nabisco Championship DNP T25 DNP DNP DNP T40 T2 T2 T5
LPGA Championship DNP DNP T11 CUT T49 T20 1 T34 WD
U.S. Women's Open DNP DNP T10 T16 T52 T28 CUT T13 T6
Women's British Open 32 24 CUT CUT DNP CUT T28 T24 CUT
Tournament 2010 2011
Kraft Nabisco Championship 2 T19
LPGA Championship T11 T3
U.S. Women's Open T2 T15
Women's British Open T14 T37

DNP = did not play.
CUT = missed the half=way cut.
"T" tied
WD = withdrew
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

LPGA Tour career summary

Year Tournaments
played		 Cuts
made		 Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish		 Earnings
($)		 Money
list rank		 Scoring
average		 Scoring
rank
2001 2 2 0 0 0 0 T11 48,750 n/a 71.00 n/a
2002 5 4 0 0 0 0 24 48,632 n/a 71.72 n/a
2003 19 18 0 0 1 4 3 387,920 31 71.08
2004 16 9 0 0 0 4 T5 193,845 58 71.59 32
2005 9 7 0 0 0 1 T6 81,224 92 73.03 n/a (66)
2006 23 21 0 0 0 3 T5 292,621 46 72.12 42
2007 24 21 5 2 0 11 1 1,802,400 2 70.86 3
2008 24 24 0 3 2 10 2 1,177,809 7 70.96 6
2009 23 22 1 3 0 12 1 1,369,717 5 70.49 6
2010 19 19 0 6 1 12 2 1,557,175 5 70.09 3
2011 20 19 2 0 2 11 1 1,322,770 5 70.97 6

LET career summary

Year LET
wins		 Earnings
(€)		 Money
list rank		 Scoring
average
2000 0 2,084 n/a n/a
2001 1 211,472 2 71.25
2002 0 118,808 8 71.89
2003 0 79,622 11 70.41
2004 0 49,352 n/a 71.00
2005 0 38,924 43 72.60
2006 0 52,903 34 71.09
2007 1 79,604 25 72.13
2008 2 183,279 6 68.60
2009 0 9,037 107 73.67
2010 0 149,490 7 69.75
2011 1 142,087 8 69.36

Team appearances

Professional

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 25 12–8–5 1–3–2 5–3–2 6–2–1 14.5 58.0
2002 3 1–1–1 0–0–1 halved w/ M. Redman 1–1–0 won w/ H. Alfredsson 4&2,
lost w/ H. Alfredsson 3&1		 1.5 50.0
2003 5 4–1–0 0–1–0 lost to C. Kerr 1 dn 2–0–0 won w/ A. Sörenstam 4&3,
won w/ S. Gustafson 3&1		 2–0–0 won w/ P. Meunier-Lebouc 3&2,
won w/ A. Sörenstam 1 up		 4.0 80.0
2005 4 2–0–2 0–0–1 halved with R. Jones 1–0–0 won w/ A.Sörenstam 1 up, 1–0–1 won w/ L. Davies 4&3,
halved w/ S. Gustafson		 3.0 75.0
2007 4 1–1–2 0–1–0 lost to S. Prammanasudh 2 up 0–0–2 halved w/ S. Gustafson,
halved w/ S. Gustafson		 1–0–0 won w/ A. Sörenstam 3&2 2.0 50.0
2009 5 1–4–0 0–1–0 lost to P. Creamer 3&2 0–2–0 lost w/ S. Gustafson 4&2,
lost w/ H. Alfredsson 2 dn		 1–1–0 lost w/ S. Gustafson 1 dn,
won w/ A.Nordqvist 1 up		 1.0 20.0
2011 4 3–1–0 1–0–0 defeated M. Wie 1 up 1–0–0 won w/ S. Gustafson 1 up 1–1–0 won w/ A. Nordqvist 2 up,
lost w/ C. Hedwall 1 dn		 3.0 75.0

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