Suzann Pettersen

Suzann Pettersen is a retired Norwegian professional golfer widely regarded as one of the best European players of her generation. Across a career that ran from 2000 to 2019 on the LPGA and Ladies European Tours, she finished with $14,837,578 in official career earnings, placing her among the LPGA Tour’s all-time top money winners — a figure that gives a genuine, sourced sense of her wealth from golf, rather than an invented headline net-worth number.

Early Life & Family

Suzann Pettersen was born on April 7, 1981, in Oslo, Norway, and grew up there with her parents and two brothers. She took up golf as a child and quickly established herself as one of Norway’s top amateurs, winning the Norwegian Amateur Championship five years running from 1996 to 2000 and claiming the British Girls Amateur Championship in 1999.

Rise to Fame

Pettersen turned professional in September 2000 and earned her Ladies European Tour card the following year. In her rookie season she won the Open de France Dames and was named LET Rookie of the Year, launching a career that would eventually take her to the top of women’s golf.

Career History

Pettersen went on to win more than 20 professional titles across the LET and LPGA Tour, including two major championships: the 2007 Women’s PGA Championship (then known as the McDonald’s LPGA Championship) and the 2013 Evian Championship. She represented Europe in nine Solheim Cups over her career, most famously holing the winning putt at Gleneagles in the 2019 Solheim Cup — the final shot of her playing career before she retired immediately afterward. She later returned to the event as Team Europe’s non-playing captain, leading the side in both 2023 and 2024.

How They Built Their Wealth

The overwhelming majority of Pettersen’s wealth was built through her playing career, with official LPGA and LET prize money totalling $14,837,578 across nearly two decades on tour. She supplemented that with endorsement deals typical of a top-level professional golfer, and has continued to earn income through her role as a Solheim Cup captain and other golf administration and broadcasting work since retiring as a player.

Personal Life

Pettersen married her husband, Christian Ringvold, in January 2017 in Oslo. The couple’s first child, a son named Herman, was born in August 2017, and they welcomed a second child in 2021. Her decision to compete in the 2019 Solheim Cup while pregnant, and to retire immediately after her winning putt, became one of the most talked-about storylines in the tournament’s history.