Caroline Westrup is a Norwegian-Swedish professional golfer. She represented Sweden until she acquired Norwegian citizenship in 2015. Caroline retired from playing on tour for eight years in 2018 and is currently a golf coach at IMG Academy in Bradenton Florida. Westrup moved from her home to of Åhus, Sweden to Bærum, Norway at age 11 after her father, Charlie Westrup, was appointed head coach of the Norwegian Golf Association. At 16 she moved to Perstorp, Sweden to attend the Swedish National Golf Gymnasium from which she graduated in 2005. She majored in sport management and minored in communications at Florida State University, and recorded five wins in collegiate competition. She were a two-time NGCA All-American First Team selection and four-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference Scholar Athlete selection. Westrup had a successful amateur career and was part of the Swedish national team from 2001. She was runner-up at the 2002 European Girls Team Championship in Turin and finished third at the 2002 British Girls Championship. She won the 2003 Junior Solheim Cup, won the 2005 European Lady Junior Team Championship in the Netherlands, and was the low individual scorer at the 2006 Women's World Amateur Team Championship in South Africa, representing Sweden. Finished runner-up at the 2006 Espirito Santo Trophy and third in the team portion of the 2007 Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship. While still an amateur, Westrup finished runner-up at the 2005 Ladies Finnish Masters, her best result on the Ladies European Tour. Westrup changed her citizenship to Norwegian in early 2015 in order to gain better access to sponsors and increase her chances to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Her first tournament representing Norway was the 2015 Gateway Classic near Phoenix, Arizona. She arrived in the US on her Swedish passport which unbeknownst to her automatically got cancelled once her application for Norwegian citizenship was successful. Stranded without a valid travel document she had to find her way to the Norwegian consulate in Houston to apply for a Norwegian passport. She finished the Olympic Qualifications as a reserve, losing out to Suzann Pettersen and Marianne Skarpnord.
