Emily Kristine Pedersen | |||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||
Full name | Emily Kristine Pedersen | ||||||||
Born | Copenhagen, Denmark | 7 March 1996||||||||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||
Sporting nationality | Denmark | ||||||||
Career | |||||||||
Turned professional | 2015 | ||||||||
Current tour(s) | Ladies European Tour LPGA Tour | ||||||||
Professional wins | 6 | ||||||||
Number of wins by tour | |||||||||
Ladies European Tour | 5 | ||||||||
Other | 1 | ||||||||
Best results in LPGA major championships | |||||||||
Chevron Championship | CUT: 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024 | ||||||||
Women's PGA C'ship | T36: 2017 | ||||||||
U.S. Women's Open | T23: 2021 | ||||||||
Women's British Open | T11: 2020 | ||||||||
Evian Championship | T14: 2016 | ||||||||
Achievements and awards | |||||||||
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Emily Kristine Pedersen (born 7 March 1996) is a Danish professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour and LPGA Tour.[1] She had a successful amateur career winning the 2013 International European Ladies Amateur Championship and the 2014 British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship. Turning professional in early 2015 she had a successful first season, finishing runner-up in the Deloitte Ladies Open and the Lacoste Ladies Open de France before winning the Hero Women's Indian Open. She was named LET Rookie of the Year for 2015.
Pedersen earned her card for the 2022 LPGA Tour through qualifying school.[2]
She made only the second hole-in-one in Solheim Cup history in 2023 on the 12th hole in the afternoon four-ball on 22 September 2023.[3]