Tour rookie posts two wins and six top five finishes to become first to cross $100,000
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., May 22, 2016 - Madelene Sagstrom (Enkoping, Sweden) broke the all-time single-season Epson Tour earnings record with a solo second place finish on Saturday at the Gosling’s Dark ‘n Stormy® Classic, the seventh event of the season. Sagstrom earned $9,467 to increase her total to $103,181, breaking Cindy LaCrosse’s mark of $94,578 from 2010.
Sagstrom is the first player in the 36-year history of the Epson Tour to cross $100,000 in earnings. She leads the Volvik Race for the Card money list by an astounding $70,961.
“I really respect all the greats that have come through the Epson Tour and I look forward to continuing to improve and achieve my dream of playing on the LPGA,” said 23-year-old Sagstrom. “I’m really proud to have reached the record and thankful that the Epson Tour has improved so much during the last several years so that were able to beat all kinds of records.”
Sagstrom won the Chico’s Patty Berg Memorial and the Self Regional Healthcare Foundation Women’s Health Classic in a span of three weeks. Both events saw purse increases of $50,000 over 2015.
The first-year professional has six top five finishes including two second place results. Sagstrom leads the Tour in scoring average (70.636) and average driving distance (277.295) while ranking third in putting average (28.73).
“To be able to set the all-time Epson Tour earnings mark in fewer than half the tournaments of the previous record is a byproduct of Madelene’s consistently stellar play,” said Chief Business Officer of the Epson Tour, Mike Nichols. “We are anxious to watch her when she graduates to the LPGA Tour – whenever that day comes – and hope that other players around the world are observing her success and will also select the Epson Tour as their Road to the LPGA.”
Sagstrom, who was the 2015 SEC Player of the Year at LSU, will not play this coming week at the W.B. Mason Championship or the following week at the Fuccillo Kia Championship at Capital Hills. Her next event on Tour is the Four Winds Invitational in South Bend, Indiana.
She is one win away from a “Battlefield Promotion” to the LPGA.
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