Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio

Boca Rio Golf Club | Boca Raton, Fla. | Jan. 23-26, 2020

In the Winner’s Circle with Madelene Sagstrom

Jan. 26, 2020

Hometown/Resides: Enkoping, Sweden/Orlando, Fla.  

Birthdate: Nov. 13, 1992; currently 27 years, 2 months and 13 days

Qualified for LPGA Tour: Won the Symetra Tour’s 2016 Volvik Race for the Card to earn LPGA Tour Membership for the 2017 season

Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2016/2017

VICTORIES

With her win, Sagstrom becomes a Rolex First-Time Winner on the LPGA Tour

RACE TO CME GLOBE

With her win, Sagstrom earns 500 points and is projected to be tied for first in the Race to CME Globe with Gaby Lopez

MONEY

With her win, Sagstrom earns $300,000; she has earned $300,000 this season and $1,132,568 for her career

2020 IN A NUTSHELL

The Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio is Sagstrom's first start of the 2020 LPGA Tour season

OF NOTE

• Sagstrom won in her 69th career LPGA Tour start
• Sagstrom is the 12th different player from Sweden to win on the LPGA Tour, and the first since Pernilla Lindberg won the 2018 ANA Inspiration
• With the $300,000 first-place prize Sagstrom crosses the $1 million mark in official career earnings with $1,132,568
• Sagstrom is in her fourth season on the LPGA Tour; prior to this event she had six career top-10 finishes with a career-best runner-up finish at the 2019 Pure Silk Championship
• Member of the 2017 European Solheim Cup Team, posting a 1-2-0 record
• Member of Team Sweden at the 2018 UL International Crown, posting a 1-3-0 record
• Was the 2016 Symetra Tour Player of the Year and Gaelle Truet Rookie of the Year with three wins and 12 top-10 finishes
• She is a 2015 graduate of Louisiana State University with a degree in psychology