Madelene Sagström

Madelene Maria Sagström (born 13 November 1992) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She won the 2020 Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio and was runner-up at the 2021 Women's British Open.

Madelene Sagström
Sagström at the 2022 Dana Open
Personal information
Full name	Madelene Maria Sagström
Born	(1992-11-13) 13 November 1992 (age 32) Uppsala, Sweden
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Sporting nationality	Sweden
Residence	Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Career
College	Louisiana State University
Turned professional	2015
Current tour(s)	LPGA Tour (joined 2016) Ladies European Tour (joined 2017)
Former tour(s)	Symetra Tour
Professional wins	5
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour	2
Epson Tour	3
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship	T13: 2022
Women's PGA C'ship	T11: 2017
U.S. Women's Open	T17: 2018
Women's British Open	T2: 2021
Evian Championship	T12: 2024
Achievements and awards
Symetra Tour Player of the Year 2016 Symetra Tour Rookie of the Year 2016 Swedish Golfer of the Year 2020

Early life

At 9, Sagström began learning golf with her parents at Enköping Golf Club, 74 kilometres northwest of Stockholm, Sweden, and she has continued to represent the club.^[1]

Amateur career

At the age of 16, she won the 2009 Swedish Junior Stroke-play Championship (for players up to 21) over 72 holes at Österåker Golf Club outside Stockholm, by seven strokes, scoring five under par on the last 36 holes.

In 2011, Sagström won the French International Lady Junior Championship, at Golf de Saint Cloud outside Paris, and was a member of the winning Swedish team at the European Ladies' Team Championship at Golf Club Murhof in Austria.^[2]

Sagström played college golf with the LSU Lady Tigers team at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.^[3] She was 2015 SEC Player of the Year at LSU and a finalist for the ANNIKA Award.

Professional career

Sagström made her professional debut at the 2015 Helsingborg Open on the Ladies European Tour in Sweden in September and earned her first pay-check.

In 2016, Swedish former European Tour Order of Merit-winner Robert Karlsson became her mentor.

In 2016, she joined the Symetra Tour in United States, where she finished inside the top-5 in her first five starts. After victories at both the Chico Patty Berg Memorial in Fort Myers, Florida, and the Self Regional Healthcare Foundation Women's Health Classic in Greenwood, South Carolina, Sagström led the tour's money list race by a wide margin, earning a spot in the LPGA 2017 rookie class.^[4]

With her third win at the Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout in El Dorado, Arkansas, Sagström both secured the top spot on the final Volvik Race for the Card money list and earned a "Battlefield Promotion" to the 2016 LPGA Tour. She had a record breaking Symetra Tour season, becoming the first player in Tour history to crack $100,000 and $150,000, winning Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year honors. In 14 Symetra Tour starts, Sagström had three wins and 11 top-10 finishes.^[5]

In December 2016, Sagström won the Ladies European Tour's Q-School in Morocco, securing membership of the Ladies European Tour for 2017, a requirement to make her eligible for selection in the 2017 Solheim Cup.^[6] She was selected as a captain's pick by Annika Sörenstam to the 2017 European Solheim Cup team and finished the 2017 LPGA Tour season 49th on the Order of Merit.

She finished tied for second at the Pure Silk Championship on the LPGA Tour in May 2019.

In her first tournament of the 2020 season, Sagström notched her first win on the LPGA Tour at the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio played at Boca Rio Golf Club in Boca Raton, Florida. She finished with a one shot lead after making par on the final hole against Nasa Hataoka who made bogey. Sagström set the course record at Boca Rio firing a 62 (−10) in the second round of the tournament. Taking the 117th LPGA Tour win by a Swedish born player, Sagström became the 12th Swedish winner on the tour.^[7]

She qualified for one of the two Swedish spots at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.^[8]

Two weeks after the Olympic golf tournament, Sagström tied the first round lead at the 2021 Women's British Open and eventually finished tied second, one shot behind winner Anna Nordqvist, after scoring a bogey on the final hole. After the tournament, she was announced as one of the captain's pick for the 2021 European Solheim Cup team.

In 2022, Sagström recorded four consecutive top-10 finishes, including T3 at the DIO Implant LA Open and the Cognizant Founders Cup, to rise into the top-30 of the Women's World Golf Rankings for the first time. In the 2022 Women's British Open at Muirfield she shot a day-low 65 in round two to share second place with eventual winner Ashleigh Buhai. Sagström finished the tournament in shared fourth place, 3 strokes behind Buhai, after a final-hole bogey.^[9]

In 2024, Sagström led by one shot over Rose Zhang with 18 holes to play at the Cognizant Founders Cup. The tournament turned into a two-player duel, which Zhang ultimately won by two strokes after birdieing 4 of the last 5 holes. The next closest player, Gabriela Ruffels, were 13 shots behind Sagström.^[10] With the finish, Sagström surpassed the $4 million mark in career earnings and climbed to 109th on the LPGA all-time money list.^[11]

Amateur wins

• 2009 Swedish Junior Strokeplay Championship
• 2011 French International Lady Junior Championship^[12]

Professional wins (5)

LPGA Tour (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	26 Jan 2020	Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio	72-62-67-70=271	−17	1 stroke	Nasa Hataoka
2	6 Apr 2025	T-Mobile Match Play	1 up			Lauren Coughlin

Symetra Tour (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Ref
1	17 Apr 2016	Chico's Patty Berg Memorial	69-66-69-75=269	−9	1 stroke	Sophia Popov	[13]
2	8 May 2016	Self Regional Healthcare Foundation Classic	66-67-71-74=278	−6	6 strokes	Wichanee Meechai	[14]
3	2 Oct 2016	Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout	69-68-72=209	−7	2 strokes	Becca Huffer	[15]

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Chevron Championship			71	T52	T57	CUT	T13	CUT	T30	CUT
U.S. Women's Open	T46	T54	T17		T30	T20	CUT	CUT	T69
Women's PGA Championship		T11	CUT	T48	T23	T15	T25	T39	T22
The Evian Championship		CUT	CUT	CUT	NT	T38	T27	CUT	T12
Women's British Open		T63	T20	CUT	CUT	T2	T4	CUT	CUT

  Top 10

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Chevron Championship	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	5
U.S. Women's Open	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	6
Women's PGA Championship	0	0	0	0	0	5	8	7
The Evian Championship	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	3
Women's British Open	0	1	0	2	2	3	8	4
Totals	0	1	0	2	2	12	39	25

World ranking

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

Year	World ranking	Source
2016	222	[16]
2017	74	[17]
2018	118	[18]
2019	118	[19]
2020	61	[20]
2021	44	[21]
2022	27	[22]
2023	62	[23]
2024	58	[24]

Team appearances

Amateur

• European Girls' Team Championship (representing Sweden): 2010
• European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Sweden): 2011 (winners), 2013, 2014, 2015
• Vagliano Trophy (representing the Continent of Europe): 2011 (winners), 2015 (winners)
• Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Sweden): 2012, 2014

Professional

• Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 2017, 2021 (winners), 2023 (tie, cup retained), 2024
• International Crown (representing Sweden): 2018, 2023

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	12	5–6–1	3–1–0	0–1–0	2–4–1	5.5	45.8
2017	3	1–2–0	1–0–0 def. A. Ernst 3&2	0–0–0	0–2–0 lost w/ J. Shadoff 3&1 lost w/ K. Icher 2&1	1	33.3
2021	3	1–2–0	1–0–0 def. A. Ewing 3&2	0–1–0 lost w/ G. Hall 1 dn	0–1–0 lost w/ N. Madsen 1 dn	1	33.3
2023	3	1–1–1	0–1–0 lost to L. Vu 4&3	0–0–0	1–0–1 halved w/ G. Dryburgh won w/ E. Pedersen 2&1	1.5	50.0
2024	3	2–1–0	1–0–0 def. S. Schmelzel 1 up	0–0–0	1–1–0 won w/ A. Nordqvist 6&5 lost w/ A. Nordqvist 4&3	2	66.7