During her thirteen years of professional career, Caroline Hedwall has achieved seven victories in the Ladies European Tour, where she has played a total of 140 tournaments. Furthermore, she has another six triumphs in the Swedish Golf Tour and another three in the Australian Ladies Professional Tour. She plays, with some exceptions, the LPGA, where she has achieved a few top ten position and a single podium in a major when she was third in the Chevron Championship in 2013. Her favourite tournaments, no doubt, is the Solheim Cup, where she is considered an amulet since 2013 when she achieved the record of winning the five points she had in her game. Smiling and calm at the first sight, Caroline recognizes that she has a character that she shows specially when she fails a putt, her strongest point in golf.

What’s your plan for this season? Are you going to play LET or do you want to go to LPGA?

I have partial started on the LPGA, I have a couple of events and then it depends on how you play. But I am very happy playing in Europe, it is close to home, and I enjoy not having to travel as much. But because of the Solheim I think I’m getting a couple of majors in the USA and, obviously, I’m going to go over and play those.

Because you are still living in Stockholm, aren’t you?

Yes, Stockholm has been, and it is my town home. I was sharing a place with another player in the USA for one and a half year, but I was there only for three weeks. I just like coming home to Sweden. People might think it is crazy because of the bad weather, but it is just home.

What is happening in Sweden right now? There are so many good golfers coming from there now.

Yes, I think we just have a really good junior program, where you can go every step of the way and we travel a lot with the Swedish golf team. That’s a good support and I think that all of the youngster coming out now have idols to look up to. And I think that it drives them to work hard and try to get there themselves. So, obviously, it helps having good golfers to look up to.

It may be the influence of Annika Sörenstam; do you think that could be? Yes, it could be. Looking back, we have always had especially strong female golfers in Sweden. It has been up and down in the men’s side and now it is looking very strong in both sides, male and the female. That is great, because it makes golf more popular in Sweden, which is awesome.

Was Annika your idol when you were a child?

Obviously, Annika was a great idol, but also Liselotte Neumann, she was the captain for the Solheim 2013. I have always thought that she was a gracious player and I enjoyed watching her playing. Henrik Stenson, as well. We had a lot of role models.

You also are kind of a symbol of the Solheim Cup, in 2013 you won five matches, you have a record and you have become someone who must be in the Solheim Cup…

Well, I’ve done very well in Solheim, but I think it is because when I was a little kid the Solheim was at home in Sweden, and I watched it as a kid, and it has always been like a dream after that. I think that was what I’ve always dreamt of. So, it has been my favourite event. And you know when you are just enjoying yourself and having fun, you usually perform.

Every time, even if you are not there, you manage to be in a pick of the cup… Yes, we have a lot of picks. I think the captains have usually been happy with the way I played. And I think I’m a decent member as well, I don’t take too much room and I just do my things. So, it has been great to get in so many picks.

This year the Solheim will be held again, so are you going to try to be there?

Yes, it all depends on how you play. I mean, I don’t want to play the Solheim when I don’t feel good about my game, it is too much pressure. It all depends on how I’m playing and, obviously, I want to do great, but you know, we’ll see what happens.

 Do you have any plans to finish and do any other things?

Yes, I’m definitely in the last half of my career, but I’m still there trying to figure out what I want to do. I did study a bit, so I have a degree in criminology. So, I would love to work with golf and maybe with crime prevention, like a sort of work together. But we’ll see, as long as I enjoy playing, I’m going to keep on playing.

You have a very good character, don’t you. You are always laughing; does it mean that you don’t stress about golf? It is a little bit of everything, when I play well, I’m definitely laughing. I have a big temperament, as well. I get angry when I’m out there, it is mostly because I know that have to let it out and then I can continue. Because if just go and hold it within me, it is not going to be good.

If you had to give a piece of an advice to the amateur golfers, what would you say to them?

I think many of amateur golfers could learn a lot about strategy and play with their strength. Because I see too many just hitting driver everywhere, maybe they just need to look at the hole and see what the best odds

for this hole would be. That’s a good tip.

Speaking about the captain, would like to become the captain of the Solheim Cup?

Yeah… Well, I’m not sure. There are lots of things going on. You know, there are a lot of speeches which I’m not too keen on. So, I mean, I might grow into it sometime. If I’m asked to be captain of the Solheim Cup, then of course I’ll consider it. But it would be a big role to take on, for sure.

And what’s your goal in golf?

Ah! Well, I’ve played for thirteen years now, so I’m very happy I’ve been able to live a life of golf for that long. I’m going to try to enjoy myself, because as long as a think it is fun I’m going to keep on playing.