Kiira Riihijärvi | |
Birth Date: | 29 April 1997 |
Birth Place: | Mont St Aignon, France |
Height: | 5 ft 11 in |
College: | University of Tampa |
Yearpro: | 2021 |
Tour: | LPGA Tour (joined 2023) |
Extour: | Epson Tour (joined 2022) |
Prowins: | 1 |
Futwins: | 1 |
Award1: | Sunshine State Conference Player of the Year |
Year1: | 2019 |
Award2: | NCAA Division II Player of the Year |
Year2: | 2020 |
Kiira Riihijärvi (born 29 April 1997) is a Finnish professional golfer. In 2022, she won Ann Arbor's Road to the LPGA on the Epson Tour, and finished 4th on the money list to graduate to the LPGA Tour.
Riihijärvi was raised in Oulu, Finland and attended Darlington School in Rome, Georgia, graduating in 2016. She attended the University of Tampa between 2016 and 2021. Playing golf with the Tampa Spartans women's golf team, she was named All-American four times and won 12 events. She was Sunshine State Conference Player of the Year as a junior, and NCAA Division II Player of the Year as a senior.[1]
Riihijärvi represented Finland at the 2018 Espirito Santo Trophy, and several times at the European Ladies' Team Championship. She won the Finnish Amateur Championship in 2019 and 2020.
She finished 28th at the 2021 Augusta National Women's Amateur, and her highest World Amateur Golf Ranking was #18.[2]
Riihijärvi turned professional after graduating in 2021. In July, she appeared in her home country's Ladies European Tour event, the Gant Ladies Open, and finished 8th, six strokes behind winner Matilda Castren.[3]
In 2022, she joined the Epson Tour, where she grabbed her first professional win at Ann Arbor's Road to the LPGA in June. In August, she lost a playoff at the Four Winds Invitational. She finished 4th in the rankings to graduate to the LPGA Tour for 2023.[4]
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