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Nina Pegova

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Nina Pegova
Personal information
Born (1994-01-05) 5 January 1994 (age 30)
Chelyabinsk, Russia
Sporting nationality Russia
Career
Turned professional2015
Current tour(s)LET Access Series
Sunshine Ladies Tour
Former tour(s)Ladies European Tour
Professional wins3

Nina Pegova (Russian: Нина Пегова, born 5 January 1994) is a Russian professional golfer who has played on the Ladies European Tour.[1]

Career

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Pegova won the Russian Open Amateur Championship three times and was runner-up in the Finnish Amateur and Hungarian Amateur Championships. She has also won the Russian Open Professional Championship.[2]

Pegova turned professional in 2015 and joined the LET Access Series (LETAS). She lost a playoff to Linda Henriksson of Finland at the 2017 VP Bank Ladies Open in Switzerland. In 2018, she finished T7 at the Jabra Ladies Open, a dual-ranking event with the Ladies European Tour.[1]

Pegova won her first LETAS title at the 2019 Ladies Finnish Open and finished ninth on the Order of Merit.[3] In 2020, she played in her first LPGA Tour event, the Women's Australian Open at Royal Adelaide Golf Club, where she did not make the cut.[4]

In 2021, Pegova was runner-up at the Czech Ladies Challenge, Golf Flanders LETAS Trophy and Santander Golf Tour Zaragoza, before winning the Flumserberg Ladies Open in Switzerland. She finished 3rd in the LETAS Order of Merit to earn Ladies European Tour membership for the 2022 season.[5][6]

Professional wins (3)

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LET Access Series wins (2)

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No. Year Tournament Score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Ref
1 2019 Viaplay Ladies Finnish Open −7 (67-72-70=209) 4 strokes Finland Anna Backman (a)
Finland Ursula Wikström
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2 2021 Flumserberg Ladies Open −11 (71-69-65=205) Playoff Germany Charlotte Back (a)

LET Access Series playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result Ref
1 2021 Santander Golf Tour Zaragoza England Rachael Goodall Lost on seventh extra hole [8]

Santander Golf Tour wins (1)

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No. Year Tournament Score Margin of
victory
Runner-up Ref
1 2024 Santander Golf Tour Cantabria 5 & 4 Spain Marta Muñoz [9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Player Profile Nina Pegova". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Getting to know Nina Pegova". LET Access Series. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Victoria de Nina Pegova en Finlandia" (in Spanish). El Periodi Golf. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Player Profile Nina Pegova". Women's World Golf Rankings. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Nina Pegova Feeling Inspired Going Into Montauban". LET Access Series. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Im Stechen die Nerven behalten: Nina Pegova gewinnt erstmals in der Schweiz" (in German). St. Galler Tagblatt. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Results 2019 Viaplay Ladies Finnish Open". Golfdata. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  8. ^ "Goodall Secures third LETAS Victory". LET Access Series. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  9. ^ "Results 2024 Santander Golf Tour Cantabria". Santander Golf Tour. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
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