Linn Grant

Linn Grant
Personal information
Full nameLinn Maria Grant
Born (1999-06-20) 20 June 1999 (age 25)
Helsingborg, Sweden
Sporting nationality Sweden
Career
CollegeArizona State University
Turned professional2021
Current tour(s)LPGA Tour (joined 2022)
Ladies European Tour (joined 2022)
Professional wins12
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour1
Ladies European Tour6
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT17: 2024
Women's PGA C'shipT9: 2024
U.S. Women's OpenT23: 2020
Women's British OpenT10: 2024
Evian ChampionshipT8: 2022
Achievements and awards
Nordic Golf Tour
Order of Merit		2020
Sunshine Ladies Tour
Order of Merit		2022
Ladies European Tour
Rookie of the Year		2022
Ladies European Tour
Order of Merit winner		2022
Ladies European Tour
Player of the Year		2022
Swedish Golfer of the Year2022

Linn Maria Grant (born 20 June 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour. She won the 2023 Dana Open on the LPGA Tour. As an amateur, she won the 2017 Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship.[1][2]

Family and early years

Grant is the granddaughter of James Grant, a Scottish golf professional who emigrated from Inverness in Scotland to Helsingborg in Sweden.[3] The Grant family has had a fair bit of success on Catriona Matthew's home track, North Berwick Golf Club. James won the Scottish Boys Championship on the course, and Linn won the British Amateur Stroke Play Championship there, 49 years later. James died when Linn was 6 years old.[1] Her father John played on the Swedish Golf Tour and has seven wins on the Swedish Senior Tour.[4][5]

Amateur career

Grant joined the Swedish National Team in 2016 and represented her country at the European Girls' Team Championship, where Sweden was runner-up 2016 and winner in 2017. She was part of the 3rd place team at the World Junior Girls Championship in Canada 2017. She was then part of the Swedish teams that won the European Ladies' Team Championship a record three times in 2018, 2019 and 2020, teamed with Frida Kinhult, Sara Kjellker, Amanda Linnér, Maja Stark and Beatrice Wallin.[6][7]

She also excelled individually. In 2016 she won the Doral-Publix Junior Classic and the Junior Masters Invitational. In 2017 she won the German Girls Open and recorded a season's Scottish double as she won the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship at Royal Troon by five strokes and the Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship at North Berwick Golf Club.[8]

She was runner-up at the 2018 Major Champions Invitational in Florida, finished tied for fifth at the 2019 European Ladies Amateur Championship and was a semifinalist at the 2019 British Ladies Amateur. Her achievements earned her an invitation to play at the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur in 2019.[9]

Grant was a member of the 2017 European Junior Solheim Cup team and represented the Continent of Europe on the winning 2019 Vagliano Trophy team. She was selected to represent the International Team at the 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup.[10]

In 2018, Grant won the qualification for the 2018 Women's British Open at St Annes Old Links Golf Club with a round of 62 (−10), however she missed the cut in the Women's Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club after rounds of 78 and 72. She also won the sectional qualification for the 2018 U.S. Women's Open at Buckinghamshire Golf Club with rounds of 67 and 70, seven strokes ahead of the runner-up Catriona Matthew and nine ahead of the third qualifier Mel Reid. In the U.S. Open at Shoal Creek Club, Grant was tied for fourth and best amateur after opening rounds of 69 and 72, and finished tied for 57th after final rounds of 78 and 81.[11][12]

Grant was a freshman at Arizona State University in 2019–20, along with compatriot Amanda Linnér. She won her first varsity tournament for the Arizona State Sun Devils at the Dr Donnis Thompson Invitational in Honolulu in March 2020.[8]

Grant was in contention at the 2020 U.S. Women's Open. Over the summer in 2020, she played on the Nordic Golf Tour where she won the GolfUppsala Open. She lost in a playoff to Ingrid Lindblad at the 2020 Skaftö Open, but a few weeks later won the Swedish Matchplay Championship, just like Anna Nordqvist, Caroline Hedwall, Maria Hjorth, Helen Alfredsson and Liselotte Neumann before her.[13] With the win, Grant secured victory in the 2020 Nordic Golf Tour Order of Merit, named the Road to Creekhouse Ladies Open, still an amateur not allowed to receive prize money, and a spot at the Creekhouse Ladies Open at Kristianstad Golf Club on the 2021 Ladies European Tour. She was ranked 5th on the World Amateur Golf Ranking.[14]

Playing with the Arizona State Sun Devils, Grant won three consecutive individual tournament titles in the spring of 2021.[15]

Professional career

Grant announced her turning professional in August 2021, ranked 4th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. In her first month as a professional, Grant claimed two successive second-place finishes on the Ladies European Tour, at the Skaftö Open and the Creekhouse Ladies Open.[16] In October she won her first tournament as a professional, the Terre Blanche Ladies Open in France.[17]

In December 2021, she earned her LPGA Tour card at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament.[18]

In February 2022, Grant won two titles on the Sunshine Ladies Tour in South Africa.[19] In March, she won her first Ladies European Tour title at the co-sanctioned the Joburg Ladies Open. After a tie for 7th at the season-ending Investec South African Women's Open she captured the Sunshine Ladies Tour's Order of Merit title, ahead of Lee-Anne Pace.[20]

In June 2022, Grant became the first woman to win on the European Tour, at the time named the DP World Tour, by winning the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed at Halmstad Golf Club in Sweden, a tournament with a field mixed of 78 women and 78 men, playing from different tees for the same title and the same prize money, but divided when counting for the women on the Ladies European Tour and for the men on the European Tour. Grant went into the final round with a two shot lead, and went on to score an 8-under-par 64 in the last round, and to win by nine strokes ahead of the nearest men and 14 strokes ahead of the nearest women.[21]

After finishing runner-up in 2020 and 2021, Grant won the 2022 Skaftö Open by one stroke ahead of Lisa Pettersson.

Grant played only six events in her rookie season on the LPGA Tour in 2022, garnering four top-10 finishes in the process. Although accumulating enough points to qualify for the CME Group Tour Championship, Grant did not participate in the tour's season-ending event due to her COVID vaccination status. Grant said through a statement via her agent, "with travel restrictions to enter the U.S. still remaining, it is still not an option for me to play LPGA events in the U.S. This is the sole reason I am not playing the CME."

In May 2023, travel restrictions to enter the U.S. were released, why Grant started playing LPGA Tour events in the U.S. In her fourth start on U.S. soil since the release, she captured her first LPGA Tour win in July 2023 at the Dana Open. It was the 120th Swedish LPGA Tour win and she became the 14th Swedish LPGA Tour winner. On the same day as her triumph, a Swedish player won on the men's tour, Vincent Norrman at the Barbasol Championship on the PGA Tour.[22]

In June 2024, Grant won on the Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed for a second time, after starting the final day 11 shots behind 54-hole leader Sebastian Söderberg, achieving the biggest comeback ever in a golf tournament.[23]

In 2024, she was awarded honorary member of the PGA of Sweden.[24]

Amateur wins

Source:[8][9][25]

Professional wins (12)

LPGA Tour wins (1)

Legend
Major championships (0)
Other LPGA Tour (1)
No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up Winner's
share ($)
1 16 July 2023 Dana Open 64-69-62-68=263 −21 3 strokes United States Allisen Corpuz 262,500

Ladies European Tour wins (6)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 26 Mar 2022 Joburg Ladies Open1 72-69-67=208 −11 5 strokes Switzerland Kim Métraux
2 29 May 2022 Mithra Belgian Ladies Open 66-68-67=201 −15 1 stroke England Cara Gainer
3 12 Jun 2022 Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed2 66-68-66-64=264 −24 9 strokes Sweden Henrik Stenson, Scotland Marc Warren
4 28 Aug 2022 Skaftö Open 67-62-68=197 −10 1 stroke Sweden Lisa Pettersson
5 13 May 2023 Jabra Ladies Open 68-67-69=204 −9 2 strokes Netherlands Anne van Dam, France Céline Herbin
6 9 Jun 2024 Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed2 (2) 67-68-71-65=271 −17 1 stroke Scotland Calum Hill, Sweden Sebastian Söderberg

1Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Ladies Tour
2Mixed event with the European Tour

Sunshine Ladies Tour wins (3)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 13 Feb 2022 Dimension Data Ladies Challenge 72-67-67=206 −10 7 strokes South Africa Nicole Garcia
2 25 Feb 2022 Jabra Ladies Classic 69-72-65=206 −10 2 strokes South Africa Paula Reto
3 26 Mar 2022 Joburg Ladies Open1 72-69-67=208 −11 5 strokes Switzerland Kim Métraux

1Co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour

LET Access Series wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 9 Oct 2021 Terre Blanche Ladies Open 68-66-72=206 −10 4 strokes Denmark Amalie Leth-Nissen (a)

Nordic Golf Tour (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 25 Jul 2020 GolfUppsala Open
(as an amateur) 		71-68-71=210 –9 1 stroke Sweden Beatrice Wallin (a)
2 9 Oct 2020 Swedish Matchplay Championship
(as an amateur) 		3 & 2 Sweden Rebecca Gyllner (a)

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Chevron Championship T17
U.S. Women's Open T57 T23 T53 CUT
Women's PGA Championship T20 T9
The Evian Championship NT T8 T16 T26
Women's British Open CUT T19 T11 T10
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Chevron Championship 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
U.S. Women's Open 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2
The Evian Championship 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 3
Women's British Open 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 3
Totals 0 0 0 0 3 9 14 12
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 8 (2020 U.S. Women's Open – 2024 Chevron)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (three times, current)

LPGA Tour career summary

Year Tournaments
played		 Cuts
made*		 Wins 2nd 3rd Top
10s		 Best
finish		 Earnings
($)		 Money
list rank		 Scoring
average		 Scoring
rank
2018 2 1 0 0 0 0 T57 n/a n/a 75.00 n/a
2019 Did not play
2020 1 1 0 0 0 0 T23 n/a n/a 72.75 n/a
2021 Did not play
2022 6 5 0 0 1 4 3 452,828 57 69.50 n/a
2023 16 15 1 0 1 4 1 1,026,279 25 70.02 8
2024 22 19 0 0 1 5 T3 1,114,951 27 70.59 16
Totals 44 (2022) 39 (2022) 1 0 3 13 1 2,594,058 176

Official as of 2024 season[26][27][28]
*Includes matchplay and other tournaments without a cut.

World ranking

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

Year World ranking Source
2018 698 [29]
2019 989 [30]
2020 491 [31]
2021 259 [32]
2022 26 [33]
2023 18 [34]
2024 28 [35]

Team appearances

Amateur

Source:[36][37]

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 9 3–6–0 0–2–0 1–2–0 2–2–0 3 33.3
2023 5 3–2–0 0–1–0 lost to M. Khang 1 dn 1–1–0 lost w/ M. Stark 2&1
won w/ M. Stark 1 up 		2–0–0 won w/ C. Ciganda 4&2
won w/ C. Ciganda 2&1 		3 60.0
2024 4 0–4–0 0–1–0 lost to J. Kupcho 2&1 0–1–0 lost w/ C. Ciganda 3&2 0–2–0 lost w/ C. Hull 5&4
lost w/ C. Boutier 6&4 		0 0.0

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