Christel Boeljon

Christel Boeljon
Boeljon at the 2009 Women's British Open
Personal information
Full name	Christel Wilhelmina Boeljon
Born	30 July 1987 (1987-07-30) (age 24) Beverwijk, Netherlands
Nationality	Netherlands
Career
College	Purdue University (three years)
Turned professional	2009
Current tour(s)	Ladies European Tour
Professional wins	1
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour	1
Best results in LPGA Major Championships
Kraft Nabisco C'ship	T15: 2011
LPGA Championship	T57: 2011
U.S. Women's Open	DNP
Women's British Open	T57: 2009

Christel Wilhelmina Boeljon (born 30 July 1987)^[1] is a professional golfer from The Netherlands, currently playing on the Ladies European Tour and the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.

Amateur career

Boeljon was born in Beverwijk. One day she joined her parents for a visit to the Golfclub Spaarnwoude, and two years later she gave up field hockey and concentrated on golf. In 2005 she continued her studies in the United States and accepted a golf scholarship to Purdue University in Indiana.^[1] In her first 25 tournaments she played 24 rounds under par.

Highlights

• 2002: won Mevrouw Swanebeker, won Dutch Junior Masters
• 2003: won National Match Play U-21
• 2004: runner-up National Stroke Play U-21, runner-up Stern Open
• 2005: won National Stroke Play U-21, semi-finalist in British Ladies Amateur
• 2006: won Dutch International Junior Open at Toxandria
• 2007: best Dutch player at the Dutch Ladies Open
• 2008: 8th at the Ladies Dutch Open at Eindhoven, won National Stroke Play

Professional career

Boeljon turned professional in 2009, when she returned from Purdue. She went to the Ladies European Tour's qualifying school in 2008, won the first stage and finished 4th at the final stage in 2009. She began well, she made the cut at the ANZ Ladies Masters in Australia and finished 41st. In April, she won the European Ladies Golf Cup together with Marjet van der Graaff. In June she again won the National Stroke Play. She made the cut at the 2009 Women's British Open and finished 57th.

In 2011 she played her first major in the United States, the Kraft Nabisco Championship and finished 15th. A few weeks later she won the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open in Belek, then finished 2nd at the Ladies Slovak Open, which was good enough to become the leader of the Ladies European Tour money list.

Professional wins (1)

Ladies European Tour (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share (€)
1	8 May 2011	Turkish Airlines Ladies Open	73-71-70-73=287	-5	3 strokes	Florentyna Parker Becky Brewerton	37,500

Ladies European Tour career summary

Year	Tournaments played	Cuts made	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top 10s	Best finish	Earnings (€)	Money list rank	Scoring average	Scoring rank
2004	1	0	0	0	0	0	CUT	n/a		77.50
2006	1	1	0	0	0	0	T55	n/a		73.67
2007	1	1	0	0	0	0	T11	n/a		71.00
2008	1	1	0	0	0	1	T10	n/a		70.33
2009	17	14	0	0	0	1	T5	48,893	35	72.45	37
2010	20	14	0	3	1	7	T2	121,959	12	72.33	35
2011	13	11	1	2	1	6	1	151,752	6	70.83	11

• official as of 20 September 2011 ^[2]

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament	2009	2010	2011
Kraft Nabisco Championship	DNP	DNP	T15
LPGA Championship	DNP	DNP	T57
U.S. Women's Open	DNP	DNP	DNP
Women's British Open	T57	CUT	T54

DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
LA = low amateur
Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

Amateur

• Espirito Santo Trophy: 2006, 2008

Professional

• European Ladies Golf Cup: 2009 (winner)
• Solheim Cup: 2011

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	3	1-2-0	1-0-0	0-1-0	0-1-0	1.0	33.3%
2011	3	1-2-0	1-0-0 def. B. Lincicome 2 up	0-1-0 lost w/ K. Stupples 3&2	0-1-0 lost w/ S. Gal 2&1	1.0	33.3%

References

1. ^ ^{a b} LET profile
2. ^ "2011 Player Performance Record". LET. http://www.ladieseuropeantour.info/tic/tmplayer.cgi?season=2011~player=120531~. Retrieved 20 September 2011. 

External links

• Christel Boeljon at the Ladies European Tour official site
• Christel Boeljon at the LPGA Tour official site
• Purdue Sports.com - women's golf - Christel Boeljon

Persondata
Name	Boeljon, Christel
Alternative names	Boeljon, Christel Wilhelmina
Short description	Professional golfer
Date of birth	30 July 1987
Place of birth	Beverwijk, Netherlands
Date of death
Place of death