Amateur career

Carin Koch had a successful amateur career. She was Swedish Girl Champion in 1988 and played in the Junior and Senior European Amateur Team Championships as a member of the 1985-91 Swedish national amateur team. She was also 1990 European Team Junior Champion. Koch enrolled at the University of Tulsa and was named Second-Team All-American in 1990 and Scholar All-American in 1991. Between 1987 and 1991 she played eight times on the Swedish Telia Tour as an amateur, never finishing outside the top ten. She turned professional in 1992.

Professional career

1992 was her rookie year on the Ladies European Tour. She gained three wins on the Swedish Telia Tour in both 1992 (including the Swedish Matchplay Championship) and 1993. In 1994, she finished fourth on the Asian Order of Merit and tied for fifth at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn exempt status for the 1995 LPGA season.

In 1995, her rookie season, her best LPGA finish was a tie for second at the JAL Big Apple Classic. She also gained two top ten finishes on the Ladies European Tour. In 1996 she almost gained her maiden LPGA victory losing the Edina Realty Classic to Liselotte Neumann in a playoff. In 1998 she gave birth to her first son, Oliver Michael Ture.

In the 1999 Jamie Farr Kroger Classic, Koch had a two shot lead with just the final hole to play. Her caddie gave her the wrong club and she made double bogey to drop into a six-way sudden death playoff which was won by Se Ri Pak. In 2000, Koch won her maiden European title at the 2000 Chrysler Open. She was a member of the victorious European Solheim Cup Team, where she went 3-0 as a "rookie" and sank an eight-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole to win her match against Michele Redman to clinch the European Team's victory. She also teamed with Sophie Gustafson to win the inaugural TSN Ladies' World Cup of Golf.

In 2001, she became an LPGA maiden winner at the LPGA Corning Classic. At the start of 2002, Carin topped a Playboy internet poll as the sexiest women on the LPGA but declined to pose for them nude. This was the year Koch recorded a career-best 13 top-10 finishes, including three runner-up finishes and was a captain's pick for the European Solheim Cup team. In 2003, Koch gave birth to her second child, Simzon Michael but still played well enough to be a captain's pick for the 2003 Solheim Cup won by the Europeans in her native Sweden.

In 2005, she won her second career LPGA event at the Corona Morelia Championship. and was again a captain's pick for the 2005 Solheim Cup. She teamed up with Sophie Gustafson to represent Sweden at the inaugural Women's World Cup of Golf and was also a member of the International team at the inaugural Lexus Cup. She also played in the 2007 Women's World Cup of Golf with Helen Alfredsson.

Koch was named European team captain for the 2015 Solheim Cup in April 2014.

Professional wins (4)

LPGA Tour wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	27 May 2001	LPGA Corning Classic	−18 (68-67-69-66=270)	2 strokes	Maria Hjorth Mhairi McKay
2	24 April 2005	Corona Morelia Championship	−9 (68-69-71-71=279)	6 strokes	Karine Icher

LPGA Tour playoff record (0-2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	1996	Edina Realty LPGA Classic	Brandie Burton Liselotte Neumann Suzanne Strudwick	Neumann won with birdie on third extra hole
2	1999	Jamie Farr Kroger Classic	Kelli Kuehne Mardi Lunn Se-Ri Pak Sherri Steinhauer Karrie Webb	Pak won with birdie on first extra hole

Ladies European Tour wins (1)

• 2000 Chrysler Open

Other wins (1)

• 2000 TSN Ladies World Cup Golf (with Sophie Gustafson)

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Kraft Nabisco Championship	DNP	CUT	CUT	DNP	CUT	T17
LPGA Championship	CUT	T18	T53	T18	T36	T40
U.S. Women's Open	T40	CUT	DNP	T13	T5	T31
du Maurier Classic	CUT	CUT	CUT	T63	T9	12

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Kraft Nabisco Championship	T15	T5	DNP	T16	T30	T24	T61	T63	CUT	T64
LPGA Championship	T17	T6	DNP	T11	T7	T49	CUT	CUT	T69	DNP
U.S. Women's Open	CUT	T37	CUT	T10	CUT	T28	CUT	CUT	CUT	DNP
Women's British Open ^	T56	T8	T50	T13	T15	CUT	CUT	CUT	DNP	T55

Tournament	2011	2012
Kraft Nabisco Championship	DNP	DNP
LPGA Championship	DNP	DNP
U.S. Women's Open	DNP	DNP
Women's British Open ^	CUT	T43

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.
DNP = did not play.
CUT = missed the half-way cut.
"T" tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

• Starts - 58
• Wins - 0
• 2nd-place finishes - 0
• 3rd-place finishes - 0
• Top 3 finishes - 0
• Top 5 finishes - 2
• Top 10 finishes - 7
• Top 25 finishes - 19
• Missed cuts - 21
• Most consecutive cuts made - 9
• Longest streak of top-10s - 2 (twice)

LPGA Tour career summary

Year	Wins	Earnings ($)	Money list rank	Average
1995	0	129,313	48	72.54
1996	0	128,772	50	73.26
1997	0	70,802	87	73.04
1998	0	207,432	35	72.34
1999	0	260,962	33	71.98
2000	0	329,377	28	72.40
2001	1	421,329	25	71.69
2002	0	785,817	8	70.91
2003	0	155,023	58	72.20
2004	0	568,404	20	71.04
2005	1	612,036	21	71.59
2006	0	223,664	60	72.61
2007	0	152,232	69	74.22
2008	0	313,468	54	72.58
2009	0	55,855	111	73.77
2010	0	10,882	n/a	74.00
2011	0	0	n/a	78.50
2012	0	14,564	138	75.75

Team appearances

Professional

• Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 2000 (winners), 2002, 2003 (winners), 2005, 2015 (non-playing captain)
• Lexus Cup (representing International team): 2005 (winners), 2006
• World Cup (representing Sweden): 2005, 2007

Solheim Cup record

Year	Total matches	Total W-L-H	Singles W-L-H	Foursomes W-L-H	Fourballs W-L-H	Points won	Points %
Career	16	10-3-3	2-1-1	5-0-2	3-2-0	11.5	71.9%
2000	3	3-0-0	1-0-0 def M. Redman 2&1	1-0-0 won w/C. Nilsmark 2&1	1-0-0 won w/C. Nilsmark 2&1	3	100%
2002	5	4-0-1	0-0-1 halved w/ B. Daniel	2-0-0 won w/A. Sörenstam 3&2, won w/A. Sörenstam 4&3	2-0-0 won w/ M. McKay 3&2, won w/A. Sörenstam 4&3	4.5	90%
2003	4	1-2-1	0-1-0 lost to J. Inkster 5&4	1-0-1 halved w/L. Davies, won w/A. Sörenstam 3&2	0-1-0 lost w/A. Sörenstam 1dn	1.5	37.5%
2005	4	2-1-1	1-0-0 def M. Redman 2&1	1-0-1 halved w/C. Matthew, won w/ S. Gustafson 5&3	0-1-0 lost w/C. Matthew 1dn	2.5	62.5%

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