Louise Rydqvist

AWARDS/HONORS

• WGCA All-American (Honorable Mention – 2023)
• Golfweek All-American (Honorable Mention – 2022)
• Second Team All-SEC (2022)
• SEC All-Freshman Team (2022)
• WGCA All-American Scholar (2022, 2023)
• SEC Academic Honor Roll (2022, 2023)

2022-23

• Earned Honorable Mention All-America honors for the second straight season, this time from the WGCA ; finished No. 67 in the final Golfstat Player Rankings for the season
• Logged a 74.15 scoring average with a pair of top-five finishes, three top-10s and four top-20s
• Finished 75^th at the NCAA Championship (May 19-23) with a 72-hole score of 307 (+19) ; fell in the match play quarterfinals to Southern Cal’s Brianna Navarrosa 2&1
• Helped punch the team’s ticket to the National Championship at Grayhawk for the third straight year with a lights out performance at the NCAA Athens Regional (May 8-10) ; took solo second with a new, 54-hole career low score of 209 (-7) ; fired rounds of 70-69-70 at UGA Golf Course
• T-23^rd at the SEC Championship with a score of 224 (+8) ; dropped two tight matches in the quarterfinals and semifinals of match play
• Finished solo second at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic ; shot 140 (-4) in the abbreviated, 36-hole event with scores of 69 (-3) and 71 (-1) at UGA Golf Course
• Went 2-1 at the Wolfpack Match Play (April 3-4) helping the team to pair of wins and third place finish ; defeated Louisville’s Carmen Griffths 1-up and Virginia Tech’s Morgan Ketchum 2-up
• Finished 0-1-2 at the Cactus Cup (March 13-14) helping the team to pair of wins and runner-up finish ; halved matches with Texas’ Bohuyn Park and San Jose State’s Louisa Carlbom
• T-13^th at the Landfall Tradition (Oct. 28-30) shooting 214 (-2) ; fired a new career low score of 67 (-5) in the second round
• Made season debut at the Windy City Collegiate Classic (Oct. 3-4) ; T-10^th with a 54-hole total of 220 (+4) ; shot 71 (-1) in the final round and helped the team to a runner-up finish
• Competed in the World Am Team Championship (Aug. 24-27) and was part of Gold Medal winning Swedish Team alongside LSU All-American Ingrid Linbald and Meja Örtengren
• Continued her strong finish to her freshman campaign with a big summer in which she was runner-up at The Women’s Amateur Championship (June 20-25) ; finished 24^th in stroke play at even par before going 5-0 en route to the title bout where she would fall 4&3 to England’s Jessica Baker

2021-22

• Had a standout first season on campus, earning Honorable Mention All-America honors from Golfweek after notching eight top-20 finishes (tied for most on team) in 11 stroke play starts
• In the lineup for all five of the team’s program-record five wins during the season
• Logged a 73.84 scoring average and led the team with 15 rounds of par or better ; also had a four top-10 finishes and a pair of top-fives
• T-57^th at the NCAA Championship (May 20-25) after logging a 72-hole total of 301 (+13) ; posted back-to-back even par 72s in rounds three and four at Grayhawk Golf Club
• T-6^th at NCAA Regionals shooting 218 (+2) and helped the team to a runner-up finish
• Paced the Gamecocks at the SEC Championship (April 13-15) with a T-6^th finish at 216 (E) ; shot 69 (-3) in the final round ; won 4&3 over Alabama’s Isabella van der Biest in the match play quarterfinals
• Went 3-0 at the Wolfpack Match Play (April 3-4), helping the team to its program record fifth tournament title of the season ; won 5&4, 3&2 and 3&2 in her trio of matches
• T-5^th at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic with a 54-hole total of 219 (+3) ; shot 69 (-3) in round three helping lead the Gamecocks to a win
• T-18^th at the Valspar Invitational (March 12-13) and T-20^th the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate (Feb. 28-March 2) that would start a streak of five-straight, top-20 finishes to end the season prior to the NCAA Championship
• Logged a career-best T-4^th finish thanks to a 54-hole, career-low of 213 (-3) at the Landfall Tradition (Oct. 29-31) ; shot a career-best 67 (-5) in round two as the team went on to win by 12 shots
• T-20^th in her Gamecock debut, a seven-shot victory by the team in a loaded field at the season-opening ANNIKA Intercollegiate (Sept. 13-15)

PRIOR TO SOUTH CAROLINA

• Steps on campus ranked No. 165 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and No. 70 in the European Golf Association Women’s Rankings
• High school team, Filbornaskolan, won the 2020 Swedish Golfschool Championship
•  Won the 2020 Johannesberg Open
• Finished 2^nd in 2020 Allerum Open on the Nordic Golf Tour
• Finished 3^rd in 2020 Spanish International Ladies Amateur Championship
• Took 5^th in 2019 Girls Amateur Championship
• Represented Sweden in 2019 Junior World Cup (Japan), World Junior Girls Championship (Canada) and the European Girls Championship in 2018 and 2019

PERSONAL

• Daughter of Jonas and Mia Rydqvist – has a younger sister, Linn
• Business management major