Christel Boeljon

Personal information
Full name	Christel Wilhelmina Boeljon
Born	(1987-07-30) 30 July 1987 (age 36) Beverwijk, Netherlands
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Sporting nationality	Netherlands
Residence	Netherlands
Career
College	Purdue University
Turned professional	2009
Current tour(s)	Ladies European Tour (joined 2009) LPGA Tour (joined 2011)
Professional wins	4
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour	4
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship	T15: 2011
Women's PGA C'ship	T23: 2012
U.S. Women's Open	CUT: 2012, 2013, 2014
Women's British Open	T47: 2013
Evian Championship	CUT: 2013, 2014

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 (4)

Ladies European Tour (4)

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
2	5 Feb 2012	Gold Coast RACV Australian Ladies Masters	66-65-68-68=267	–21	1 stroke	Diana Luna Kim Ha-neul So Yeon Ryu	63,631
3	13 May 2012	Turkish Airlines Ladies Open	70-73-69-73=285	–7	3 strokes	Ursula Wikström	37,500
4	21 Jun 2015	Deloitte Ladies Open	69-69-71=209	–10	4 strokes	Ursula Wikström Emily Kristine Pedersen	37,500

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order before 2015.

Tournament	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
ANA Inspiration			T15	T56	T41	T55		CUT
Women's PGA Championship			T57	T23	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT
U.S. Women's Open				CUT	CUT	CUT
Women's British Open	T57	CUT	T54	CUT	T47	CUT
The Evian Championship ^					CUT	CUT

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

Tournament	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
ANA Inspiration	1	5	4
Women's PGA Championship	1	6	2
U.S. Women's Open	0	3	0
Women's British Open	0	6	3
The Evian Championship	0	2	0
Totals	2	22	9

Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2011 Kraft Nabisco – 2012 LPGA)
Longest streak of top-10s – 0

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			73.67
2007	1	1	0	0	0	0	T11			71.00
2008	1	1	0	0	0	1	T10			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	15	13	1	2	1	6	1	161,172	8	70.92	13
2012	6	3	2	0	0	2	1	104,884	13	72.00
2013	7	6	0	0	0	1	5	38,731		72.96
2014	5	2	0	0	0	1	T4	14,650	–	73.83

as of 2014 season

LPGA Tour career summary

Year	Tournaments played	Cuts made	2nd	Top 10s	Best finish	Earnings ($)	Money list rank	Scoring average	Scoring rank
2011	14	12	0	2	T9	170,553	52	72.31	14
2012	20	10	0	0	T23	89,817	81	73.47	91
2013	20	14	0	1	T7	163,260	67	72.38	63
2014	20	10	0	1	T7	120,064	84	72.64	98
2015	12	7	1	1	2	157,280	78	73.73	130
2016	17	5	0	1	T6	61,606	114	73.31	137

official through the 2016 season^[2]

World ranking

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

Year	World ranking	Source
2007	648	^[3]
2008	703	^[4]
2009	274	^[5]
2010	118	^[6]
2011	63	^[7]
2012	82	^[8]
2013	143	^[9]
2014	192	^[10]
2015	94	^[11]
2016	221	^[12]

Team appearances

Amateur

European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Netherlands): 2005, 2007, 2008
Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Netherlands): 2006, 2008

Professional

European Ladies Golf Cup: 2009 (winner)
Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 2011 (winners)

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

External links

European Solheim Cup team – 2011

European Solheim Cup team – 2011
Christel Boeljon Laura Davies Sandra Gal Sophie Gustafson Caroline Hedwall Maria Hjorth Catriona Matthew Azahara Muñoz Anna Nordqvist Suzann Pettersen Mel Reid Karen Stupples Alison Nicholas (non-playing captain) Joanne Morley (non-playing assistant captain) Annika Sörenstam (non-playing assistant captain)
Won: 15–13