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Frida Kinhult

{{short description|Swedish professional golfer (born 1999)}}

{{use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}

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| fullname = Frida Mikaela Kinhult

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1999|9|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = Fiskebäckskil, Sweden

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| nationality = {{SWE}}

| residence = Tallahassee, Florida

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| partner =Vincent Norrman

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| college = Florida State

| yearpro = 2019

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| tour = LPGA Tour

| extour = Symetra Tour

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| nabisco = T76: 2025

| lpga = 69th: 2024

| wusopen = T24: 2022

| wbritopen = CUT: 2018, 2019

| evian = CUT: 2022, 2023, 2024

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| award1 = ACC Player of the Year

| year1 = 2018-19

| award2 = ACC Freshman of the Year

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| award3 = WGCA Freshman of the Year

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Frida Mikaela Kinhult (born 25 September 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer. She rose to world number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in June 2019{{cite web |url=https://www.wagr.com/playerprofile/frida-kinhult-20655 |publisher=World Amateur Golf Ranking |title=Frida Kunhult |accessdate=10 October 2019}} and won the 2020 Symetra Tour Championship to graduate to the LPGA Tour.{{cite web |title=Kinhult Wins 2020 Symetra Tour Championship and More from the Final Round |url=https://www.symetratour.com/news/2020/frida-kinhult-wins-2020-symetra-tour-championship-and-more-from-the-final-round |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113141917/https://www.symetratour.com/news/2020/frida-kinhult-wins-2020-symetra-tour-championship-and-more-from-the-final-round |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 November 2020 |publisher=Symertra Tour |accessdate=7 November 2020}}

Early life and amateur career

The daughter of a golf professional, Kinhult started playing the game at an early age at Skaftö Golf Club in Fiskebäckskil, on the small Swedish west coast island Skaftö with 1,400 inhabitants. Her three years older brother Marcus Kinhult became a professional golfer at 19 years of age to play on the European Tour and won the 2019 Betfred British Masters.

Kinhult has played on the Swedish national team since 2013. Representing her country, she was part of the teams winning the 2017 European Girls' Team Championship and the 2018 and 2019 European Ladies' Team Championship. She has represented Europe in the Patsy Hankins Trophy, Junior Ryder Cup, Junior Solheim Cup, and won the 2019 Vagliano Trophy. Individually, she won the Spanish International Ladies Amateur Championship in 2017 and then successfully defended her title in 2018.

In 2015, aged 15, she started in her first Ladies European Tour event, the Helsingborg Open, and two years later she finished top-10 at Andalucia Costa Del Sol Open De España Femenino. She participated in three majors as a teenager. The win of the 2017 European Girls' Team Championship exempted her from pre-qualifying for the 2018 Women's British Open.{{cite web |title=European Girls' Team Championship Results |date=19 October 2015 |url=http://www.ega-golf.ch/page/european-girls-team-championship |publisher=European Golf Association |accessdate=4 August 2018}} She later received an invitation to the 2019 ANA Inspiration (foregoing her spot at Augusta National Women's Amateur played the same week) and qualified for the 2019 Women's British Open.

In the fall of 2018 Kinhult moved to Tallahassee to play golf at Florida State University.{{cite web |title=Seminoles Roster: Frida Kinhult |url=https://seminoles.com/sports/w-golf/roster/frida-kinhult/ |publisher=Florida State University |accessdate=14 August 2019}} As a freshman, she won two tournaments and set the Seminoles' single-season scoring average record of 70.66, was a WGCA First Team All-American, shared ACC Player of the Year honors with Wake Forest's Jennifer Kupcho, and was named both ACC and WGCA Freshman of the Year.{{cite web |title=U.S. Womens Open: Top 5 Symetra Tour Players Added to Field at Champions G.C. |url=https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/championships/2020/u-s--women-s-open/articles/5-symetra-tour-players-added-to-2020-us-womens-open-champions-texas.html#returnable |publisher=USGA |access-date=14 December 2020}} During her year and a half at Florida State, Kinhult was a three-time winner and won the 2019 Arnold Palmer Cup.{{cite news |title=Frida Kinhult capping off strong freshman season with FSU at NCAA Finals |url=https://eu.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/2019/05/16/frida-kinhult-florida-state-fsu-womens-golf-annika-award-seminoles-amy-bond-ncaa-championship-finals/1185942001/ |accessdate=14 August 2019 |newspaper=Tallahassee Democrat |date=16 May 2019}}

In June 2019, she reached number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

Professional career

Kinhult turned professional in December 2019 after qualifying for the Symetra Tour.{{cite news |url=https://www.bohuslaningen.se/sport/frida-kinhult-g%C3%A5r-all-in-har-tagit-sitt-livs-st%C3%B6rsta-beslut-1.21400529 |title=Frida Kinhult går all in – har tagit sitt livs största beslut |trans-title=Frida Kinhult goes all in – has made the biggest decision of her life |newspaper=Bohusläningen |first=Joel |last=Hansson |date=11 December 2019 |language=Swedish}} She won her first professional tournament at the 2020 Symetra Tour Championship, earning LPGA Tour membership for 2021 and a spot in the 2020 U.S. Women's Open in the process.{{cite web |title=Rookie Frida Kinhult Takes Command at Symetra Tour Championship and More from the Third Round |url=https://www.symetratour.com/news/2020/symetra-tour-championship-2020-five-things-to-know-third-round |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106003350/https://www.symetratour.com/news/2020/symetra-tour-championship-2020-five-things-to-know-third-round |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 November 2020 |publisher=LPGA |accessdate=6 November 2020}}

Kinhult earned her card for the 2022 LPGA Tour through qualifying school.{{cite web |url=https://www.lpga.com/news/2021/an-earns-medalist-honors-at-q-series |title=Na Rin An Secures Medalist Honors At LPGA Q-Series |publisher=LPGA |date=13 December 2021}}

Personal life

Following Vincent Norrman's first PGA Tour win at the 2023 Barbasol Championship, it was widely reported that Kinhult was his girlfriend and that she had been instrumental in his trajectory to the PGA Tour win.{{cite web |title=From Stockholm to South Georgia: Vincent Norrman carves path to PGA Tour |url=https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour/article/news/tour-bound/12/22/vincent-norrman-stockholm-south-georgia-journey-get-to-know-florida-state-swedish-phenom |publisher=PGA Tour |access-date=27 July 2023}}

Amateur wins

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Professional wins

=Symetra Tour wins=

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align=center|1

|align=right|6 Nov 2020

|Symetra Tour Championship

|align=right|68-71-69-70=278

|align=center|−10

|4 strokes

|{{flagicon|USA}} Demi Runas

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

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align=left|Chevron Championship

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|CUT

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|CUT

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|T76

align=left|U.S. Women's Open

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|CUT

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|T24

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align=left|Women's PGA Championship

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|CUT

|CUT

|69

|CUT

align=left|The Evian Championship

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|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT

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|CUT

|CUT

|CUT

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align=left|Women's British Open

|CUT

|CUT

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CUT = missed the half-way cut

NT = no tournament

T = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

References

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External links

  • {{WWGR|6000}}
  • [http://seminoles.com/sports/w-golf/roster/frida-kinhult/ Frida Kinhult] on the Florida State Seminoles official site
  • {{Golfdata|47275}}

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Category:Swedish female golfers

Category:LPGA Tour golfers

Category:Florida State Seminoles women's golfers

Category:Swedish expatriate golfers in the United States

Category:Golfers from Västra Götaland County

Category:People from Fiskebäckskil

Category:1999 births

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century Swedish sportswomen