LSU Graduate Student Ingrid Lindblad Wins 2024 ANNIKA Award Presented by Stifel

CARLSBAD, Cal., May 21, 2024 – LSU Graduate Student and the world’s top-ranked female

amateur golfer, Ingrid Lindblad, was announced as the winner of the coveted ANNIKA Award

presented by Stifel today, recognizing the most outstanding female NCAA Division I college

golfer for the 2023-24 season. The announcement was made today by Hall-of-Famer Annika

Sorenstam and Steve Burkowski, Golf Channel Host.

Lindblad, the top-ranked player in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, NCAA rankings, and

Clippd rankings, earned her name on the ANNIKA Award with her stellar final year at LSU.

With four wins in the 2023-2024 season, including a Regional win, Lindblad has a total of 15

collegiate wins throughout her five years, now holding the SEC Career Wins Record. In

addition to her many victories, she captured a top 5 spot in every tournament this season by

shooting even or under par in every round. After being on the ANNIKA Award Watch List

for four years in a row, Lindblad can now say she is an ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel

winner and the first Swedish player named to the Award.

As a result of winning the 2024 ANNIKA Award Presented by Stifel, Lindblad receives an

exemption to compete in the 2024 Amundi Evian Championship, one of the LPGA Tour’s five

major championships.

“I’m so happy.” said Lindblad when receiving the award. “I feel like I've worked hard for this and

this was one of the reasons I came back for my fifth year, so it feels good to kind of close my

college career out, and I'm very thankful for this award.”

“I think the first time I played in something with one of Annika’s events was in 2014 when I

played the Junior Am for the ANNIKA Invitational for Europe.” continued Lindblad. “Then the

next year I played the Annika Cup... and then played the European events and then the USA one

and then a couple years ago we (LSU) played the (ANNIKA) Intercollegiate so I feel like I've

kind of taken the Annika journey a little bit.”

“This year’s winner is amazing just like all the other nine winners (of the ANNIKA Award).”

said Annika. “This is the 10th year we are celebrating this and obviously I want to thank Stifel

for their support. I’m super excited and happy for Ingrid.”

Talking to Ingrid, she continues "It’s been exciting for us to just follow your journey to see how

you’ve grown as a player and as a person. Obviously now you have some great things coming up

with turning pro at some point, but I'm very happy for you and with what you have done on the

course and also what you stand for as a character amongst your peers... and glad to see a Swede

on here (the ANNIKA Award). There are some wonderful names on this trophy and all the

players on here have gone on to do some great things and I see the same thing for Ingrid.”

Coming off a win at the NCAA Division I Bryan Regional, Lindblad opened her first round of

the 2024 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship with a one-over, 73 and ended her final round

of stroke play with a two-over, 74 helping her team advance to the first round of match play.

This is the first time in NCAA Women’s Golf history, the Tigers made their way to match play.

GOLF Channel’s live coverage of the NCAA Golf Championships continues today and

tomorrow with the NCAA Women’s Golf Championships team match play competition,

followed by live coverage of the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships, May 27-29.

Voting for the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel is compiled and verified by the Haskins

Foundation, which oversees the award. Past winners of the ANNIKA Award include Rose Zhang

(Stanford, 2022, 2023); Rachel Heck (Stanford, 2021); Natalie Srinivasan (Furman, 2020); Maria

Fassi (Arkansas, 2018, 2019); Leona Maguire (Duke, 2015, 2017); Bronte Law (UCLA, 2016)

and Alison Lee (2014). These past ANNIKA Award recipients tallied 44 wins during their

collegiate careers; have been collectively recognized as First Team All-Americans 13 times; and

have accumulated eleven professional wins (Alison Lee – the 2021 Aramco Team Series,

Sotogrande and the 2023 Aramco Team Series, Riyadh; Bronte Law – 2019 Pure Silk

Championship, the 2021 Dubai Moonlight Classic, the 2022 Aramco Team Series, London, and

the 2024 Lalla Meryem Cup; Leona Maguire – two Epson Tour wins, the 2022 Drive on

Championship and the 2023 Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give; and Rose Zhang – the 2023

Mizuho Americas Open). GOLF Channel and Golfweek are media partners for the ANNIKA

Award presented by Stifel.