My name is Sofie Andersson and I am a professional golfer from Sweden currently residing in California. I turned professional in 2007. After a successful year on the Duramed Futures Tour in 2007, I earned conditional status on the LPGA for the 2008 season. I will this year divide my competing between the LPGA and the Futures Tour. 2008 will be an exciting season!

Since I began playing golf as a 10-year-old growing up in Sweden, the game has been a part of my everyday life. I have learned much from the game of golf and it has dictated many paths I have taken.

At 16, I attended the high school run by the Swedish Golf Federation. After three years of study and competition, I made my way across the Atlantic Ocean to the U.S to study and play collegiate golf.

In December 2006, I completed a bachelor’s degree in International Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley.

As a student-athlete at California, I was honored as an All-American three times (2004-06). Additionally, I established a new program scoring average at 74.2 and posted a tournament victory at the 2005 Spartan Invitational.

As an amateur, I also played with the Swedish National Team from 1999-06. In 2004, I was part of a three-player team that captured Sweden’s first World Amateur Team Championships gold medal at the competition in Puerto Rico. Two years later at the in South Africa, we earned the silver medal.

I enjoy the game of golf because of the challenges it provides me and the competition it gives me. I love it for the opportunities I have been given, the many people I have met, and places I have visited.