[1] She has five LPGA Tour and 23 international wins in her career, including victories on five of the six continents on which golf is played: North America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia.
[3][4] She won the Women's British Open in 2000, the year before it was recognized as a major championship by the LPGA Tour and finished runner-up in 2005 and 2006.
When she was ten years old, a 9-hole golf course was built close to her home and Gustafson and her family began playing.
Showing great talent, she turned professional at 18 years of age in 1992, whilst studying marketing, economics and law at Aranäs High School in Kungsbacka.
[2] She also played four times on the LPGA Tour, recording a second-place finish at the co-sanctioned Women's British Open.
[5] She also won the Telia Tour Finale[15] and made her debut in the Solheim Cup, replacing the injured Trish Johnson at the last minute.
[25] In 2002, she played seven LET events, posting four top-10 finishes, ending the season with one victory at the Biarritz Ladies Classic[26] and third place in the Order of Merit as well as winning the Vivien Saunders Stroke average trophy.
She became the first woman to compete in a men's Japan Golf Tour event,[32] and was part of the winning European Solheim Cup team in her native Sweden.
At the start of 2005, Gustafson represented Sweden with Carin Koch in the 2005 Women's World Cup of Golf in SA.
[33] Three LET events in 2005 yielded a second-place finish at the Weetabix Women's British Open and 3rd place on the LET Money List.
On the LPGA Tour she had seven top 10 finishes and tied her career low round of 64 at the Wendy's Championship for Children.
[35] In 2006 Gustafson played in just three LET events but finished fourth on the New Star Money List after claiming her first victory in almost three years at the Siemens Austrian Ladies Golf Open at Golfclub Fohrenwald in Wiener Neustadt in Austria.
[39] In 2006, Gustafson married former LPGA commissioner Ty Votaw,[40] who left his post following the 2005 Solheim Cup.