Helene Koch

{{short description|Swedish professional golfer (born 1967)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox golfer | name = Heléne Koch | image = | imagesize =  | caption = | fullname = Heléne Elisabeth Koch | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|5|9|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | height = | weight = | nationality = {{SWE}} | residence = Gothenburg, Sweden | spouse = Magnus Koch | partner = | children = | college = | yearpro = 1989 | retired = | tour = | extour = Ladies European Tour<br>Swedish Golf Tour | prowins = 3 | lpgawins =  | letwins = | jlpgawins =  | klpgawins =  | lagtwins =  | alpgwins = | futwins =  | otherwins = | majorwins =  | nabisco =  | lpga =  | wusopen =  | wbritopen =  | evian =  | wghofid =  | wghofyear =  | award1 = | year1 = | award2 = | year2 = | awardssection =  }} '''Heléne Elisabeth Koch''' (née Andersson) (born 9 May 1967) is a Swedish professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour and was runner-up at the 1996 Costa Azul Ladies Open.

==Amateur career== Koch was a member of the winning Swedish team at the European Ladies' Team Championship at Turnberry in 1987, together with Helen Alfredsson, Eva Dahllöf, Pia Nilsson, Sofia Grönberg, Malin Landehag and Margareta Bjurö. She teamed up with Helen Alfredsson and Eva Dahllöf again for the 1988 Espirito Santo Trophy, held at Drottningholm in Stockholm, where they finished second after the United States, the best Swedish finish to date. In 1987, she represented the Continent of Europe in the Vagliano Trophy.<ref name="gdss">{{cite web |title=Golf - den stora sporten |url=http://www.e-magin.se/paper/1pfc350j/paper/212 |publisher=Swedish Golf Federation |accessdate=3 November 2020 |pages=186, 195, 211, 226}}</ref>

In 1986, Koch won the Finnish International Ladies Amateur Championship, and also the IBM Ladies Open on the Swedish Golf Tour (SGT), while still an amateur. Playing on the SGT, she was runner-up at the 1987 SI Trygg-Hansa Open behind Michiko Hattori and at the 1988 Ängsö Ladies Open, behind Pia Nilsson. In 1988, she won the Portuguese International Ladies Amateur Championship.<ref name="gdss"/>

==Professional career== Koch turned professional in 1989 and joined the Ladies European Tour, where she finished third at the Godiva Ladies European Masters in Belgium, just missing out on the playoff between Kitrina Douglas and Marie-Laure de Lorenzi. On the 1992 SGT, she was runner-up at the Aspeboda Ladies Open and Conor Ladies Open, both behind Carin Koch.<ref>{{cite web |title=Results Helene Koch |url=https://golfdata.se/guide/Profil_startsida.asp?nr=3012 |publisher=Golfdata |accessdate=3 November 2020}}</ref>

On the 1996 Ladies European Tour, she was runner-up at the Costa Azul Ladies Open in Portugal, two strokes behind Shani Waugh,<ref>{{cite web |title=Results Ladies Open Costa Azul|url=https://golfdata.se/tournytt/resultatlista.asp?TID=W9619XX |publisher=Golfdata |accessdate=3 November 2020}}</ref> and finished 56th on the Order of Merit.<ref name="OoM">{{cite web |title=Order of Merit |url=https://ladieseuropeantour.com/costa-del-sol-order-of-merit/ |publisher=Ladies European Tour |accessdate=31 October 2020}}</ref>

==Amateur wins== *1986 Finnish International Ladies Amateur Championship *1987 Swedish Junior Match Play Championship *1988 Portuguese International Ladies Amateur Championship

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==Professional wins (3)== ===Swedish Golf Tour (3)=== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" !No. !Date !Tournament !Winning<br>score !To par !Margin of<br>victory !Runner-up !ref |- |align=center|1 || align=right|25 May 1986 || IBM Ladies Open (as an amateur) || align=right|76-79-76=231 || align=center|+15 || 1 stroke || {{flagicon|SWE}} Sofia Grönberg-Whitmore |<ref>{{cite web |title=Results IBM Ladies Open|url=https://golfdata.se/tournytt/resultatlista.asp?TID=M8621XX |publisher=Golfdata |accessdate=3 November 2020}}</ref> |- |align=center|2 || align=right|29 May 1994 || Esab Ladies Open || align=right|219 || align=center|+6 || 6 strokes || {{flagicon|SWE}} Carin Koch |<ref>{{cite web |title=Results Esab Ladies Open|url=https://golfdata.se/tournytt/resultatlista.asp?TID=M43XXXX |publisher=Golfdata |accessdate=3 November 2020}}</ref> |- |align=center|3 || align=right|6 Sep 1998 || Öhrlings Swedish Matchplay || align=center colspan=3|3 and 2|| {{flagicon|SWE}} Josefin Stålvant |<ref>{{cite web |title=Results Öhrlings Swedish Matchplay |url=https://golfdata.se/tournytt/resultatlista.asp?TID=M9836XX |publisher=Golfdata |accessdate=3 November 2020}}</ref> |}

==Team appearances== '''Amateur''' *Vagliano Trophy (representing Continent of Europe): 1987 *European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Sweden): 1987 (winners) *Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Sweden): 1988

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{LadiesEuroTour player|010265}} *{{Golfdata|3012}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Koch, Helene}} Category:Swedish female golfers Category:Ladies European Tour golfers Category:Golfers from Gothenburg Category:1967 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century Swedish sportswomen