Elina Nummenpää

Elina Nummenpää
Nummenpää in 2013
Personal information
Born (1983-09-07) 7 September 1983 (age 41)
Turku, Finland
Height5 ft 3 in (160 cm)
Sporting nationality Finland
ResidenceTurku, Finland
Career
Turned professional2011
Current tour(s)LET (joined 2013)
Former tour(s)LET Access Series (joined 2012)
Swedish Golf Tour (joined 2011)
Professional wins1

Elina Nummenpää (born 7 September 1983) is a Finnish professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour (LET).[1]

Career

Nummenpää was a member of the Finnish National Team and represented her country four times at the European Ladies' Team Championship between 2007 and 2010. Their best finish was 6th in 2007, after Finland fell to Sweden in the quarter finals.[2]

Nummenpää won the 2009 Finnish Amateur Championship and turned professional in 2011. She joined the Swedish Golf Tour where she recorded two top-10 finishes in her rookie season.[3]

In 2012, Nummenpää joined the LET Access Series, where her best finish was a tie for 4th at the Crete Ladies Open.[1]

She finished T20 at Lalla Aicha Tour School and joined the 2013 Ladies European Tour, with her best result her rookie season a tie for 8th at the Hero Women's Indian Open.[1]

In 2018, she won the Santander Golf Tour Málaga, one stroke ahead of Noemí Jiménez.[4] She finished tied fourth in the team event of the 2021 Aramco Team Series – Jeddah, teamed with Carmen Alonso and Manon De Roey.[1]

Nummenpää was in contention at the 2022 Skaftö Open, and held the overnight lead together with Lisa Pettersson after they carded opening round scores of 63.[5] She also held the outright lead during parts of the final round, but eventually had to settle for a tie for third place behind Linn Grant and Lisa Pettersson, alongside Maja Stark.[6]

Amateur wins

  • 2009 Finnish Amateur Championship

Source:[7]

Professional wins (1)

Santander Golf Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up Ref
1 27 Jul 2020 Santander Golf Tour Málaga −5 (66-73=139) 1 stroke Spain Noemí Jiménez [4]

Team appearances

Amateur

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Player Profile Elina Nummenpää". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  2. ^ "European Ladies' Team Championship – European Golf Association". Archived from the original on 21 October 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Elina Nummenpää". Golfdata. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  4. ^ a b "2018 Santander Golf Tour Málaga". Santander Golf Tour. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Pettersson And Nummenpää Rule Supreme After First Day In Skaftö". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Grant Secures Sensational Victory in Skaftö". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Murtovaara ja Nummenpää juhlivat SM-rei'illä" (in Finnish). MTV Uutiset. Retrieved 29 August 2022.