Cara Gainer

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Cara Gainer
Personal information
Born (1995-08-20) 20 August 1995 (age 27)
Sporting nationalityFlag of England.svg  England
Residence Oxford, England
Career
College Cardiff University
Turned professional2020
Current tour(s) Ladies European Tour (joined 2021)
Former tour(s) LET Access Series (joined 2020)
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship DNP
Women's PGA C'ship DNP
U.S. Women's Open DNP
Women's British Open T61: 2023
Evian Championship DNP
Achievements and awards
LET Access Series Rookie of the Year 2020

Cara Gainer (born 20 August 1995) is an English professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. She was runner-up at the 2022 Belgian Ladies Open. [1]

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Early life and amateur career

Gainer hails from Oxford and started playing golf relatively late, when she was 14-years-old, and became a scratch golfer at 17. [2] Throughout that time she was a member at Frilford Heath Golf Club, along with Eddie Pepperell. [3]

She was part of the Castle Royle High Performance Academy and was Castle Royle Ladies Champion in 2015, 2016, and 2017, and was Ladies' Amateur Champion of Oxfordshire County in 2016. [4]

Gainer won the 2017 English Women's Open Match Play Championship at Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club, and was in the England squad her final year as an amateur, competing internationally. [2]

She graduated with a geography degree from Cardiff University in 2016. [3]

Professional career

Gainer turned professional in January 2020 after LET Q-School, and joined the LET Access Series.

In 2020, she recorded four top-20 finishes in five starts including a runner-up finish at the Czech Ladies Challenge in Prague. She ended the year in second place on the Order of Merit behind Tiia Koivisto, earning promotion to the Ladies European Tour (LET). She was also crowned LETAS Rookie of the Year. [1]

In her rookie LET season, Gainer finished 90th in the Race to Costa del Sol. In 2022 she ended the season 41st, after she recorded a career-best finish of second at the Belgian Ladies Open, one stroke behind Linn Grant. [1] She held the overnight lead at the season finale, the Andalucia Costa Del Sol Open De España, after a 7-under 66 in the opening round, but then produced three rounds of 72 to finish tied 14th. [5] [6]

Gainer opened the 2023 season with a tie for 9th at the Magical Kenya Ladies Open, having sat in 3rd ahead of the final round. [7]

Amateur wins

Source: [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Cara Gainer Player Profile". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Getting To Know Cara Gainer". Ladies European Tour. 29 October 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  3. 1 2 Roberts, James (3 January 2018). "Oxfordshire Sports Awards: Spotlight on Cara Gainer". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  4. ↑ "Cara Gainer". Castle Royle. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  5. ↑ "Ladies European Tour: Linn Grant edging Maja Stark in Race to Costa del Sol as England's Cara Gainer leads Open de Espana". Sky Sports. 25 November 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  6. ↑ "Gainer leads after round one on LET season ending event". Golf News. 25 November 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  7. ↑ "India's Ashok extends Magical Kenya Ladies Open lead". Capital Sports. 4 February 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  8. ↑ "Cara Gainer". World Amateur Golf Rankings . Retrieved 18 February 2023.
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