Born in Oslo into a sporting family, Pettersen had a successful amateur career before turning professional in 2000. Her official LPGA biography records her route through the Ladies European Tour and onto the LPGA, and her Olympics profile records her representation of Norway.

Pettersen won the 2001 French Open on the Ladies European Tour and earned LPGA status for 2003. Early injuries interrupted her momentum, but regular high finishes established her among the tour’s leading players. She recorded four LPGA top-tens in her first full US season, evidence that her later breakthrough rested on several years of established tour-level performance.

Her defining breakthrough came in 2007, when she won five times on the LPGA Tour, including the LPGA Championship. Contemporary tournament records show that the major’s past winners include Pettersen that year. She finished second on the season money list, and that cluster of victories turned an established tour player into a major winner with global sponsor value.

Pettersen added the 2013 Evian Championship and ultimately collected 15 LPGA titles. Golf Monthly’s detailed career profile records the two majors, 19 other professional wins and her official earnings. Her strongest financial seasons were 2007 and 2013, when multiple wins and major-championship performance pushed LPGA prize money well above her normal annual level.

The LPGA records approximately $14.8 million in official career prize money on its player overview. Ladies European Tour earnings, appearance income and sponsorships sit outside that headline total. Available LET records add more than €1 million through 2012, although some co-sanctioned events overlap with LPGA accounting and must not be counted twice.

Pettersen had brand relationships in equipment, apparel, watches and other categories during her playing career. Long-running equipment support mattered both as fee income and as a reduction in professional costs. She has also remained commercially visible through Solheim Cup leadership, speaking and golf-related appearances after retirement, although those engagements are not itemised publicly.

Her foundation has used golf to support charitable projects; the Suzann Pro Challenge is part of that public activity. Charitable fundraising and corporate sponsorship should not be counted automatically as personal income, and no major business exit has been publicly documented.

Property ownership, investment portfolios, pensions and liabilities are private. Prize-money totals are before travel, caddie compensation, coaching, management and tax, while sponsorship contracts were not disclosed in sufficient detail to reconstruct annual savings. Her career spanned Norway, the United States and global events, so tax residence and foreign-currency treatment could also have varied across seasons.