Elena Moosmann

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Elena Moosmann
Personal information
Born (2002-04-20) 20 April 2002 (age 22)
Zug, Switzerland
Height167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Sporting nationalityFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Career
Turned professional2023
Current tour(s) Ladies European Tour (joined 2024)
Former tour(s) LET Access Series (joined 2023)
Professional wins2

Elena Moosmann (born 20 April 2002) is a Swiss professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. As an amateur, she finished 3rd at the 2021 Ladies Swiss Open. [1]

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Amateur career

Moosmann started playing golf at ten years old and had a successful amateur career. [1] At age 14, she won the Swiss Junior Tour Final and became ranked in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, where she played herself into the top-100 the following year as she won five titles including the Swiss Ladies Amateur. [2] She tied for 4th at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in the Mixed team event paired with Nicola Gerhardsen. [3]

In 2019, Moosmann lost a playoff at the European Nations Cup - Copa Sotogrande and won her first professional title, the VP Bank Ladies Open, an LET Access Series event in Switzerland with a mixed stroke play and match play format. [4] In 2021, she finished 3rd at the VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open, a Ladies European Tour event, only 2 strokes behind winner Atthaya Thitikul. [5] The same year she was runner-up at the Swiss Golf Open Championship behind Chiara Tamburlini, and at the Austrian Ladies Amateur, before winning the French Ladies Amateur. [2]

Moosmann was member of the Swiss National Team and appeared in three European Girls' Team Championships and three European Ladies' Team Championships. She also represented Switzerland in three World Junior Girls Championships and two World Amateur Team Championships, in 2018 at Carton House Golf Club in Ireland, and in 2022 at Le Golf National in France. [2]

Professional career

Moosmann turned professional in 2023 and joined the LET Access Series, where she won the Santander Golf Tour Zaragoza to finish 2nd in the Order of Merit and graduate to the Ladies European Tour for 2024. [6] [7] In her rookie season, she recorded multiple top-10 finishes, including a solo 5th at the Aramco Team Series - Korea. [8]

Amateur wins

Source: [2]

Professional wins (2)

LET Access Series (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning
score
To parMargin
of victory
Runner-up
15 May 2019 VP Bank Ladies Open
(as an amateur)
1-up Flag of England.svg Hayley Davis
228 Oct 2023 Santander Golf Tour Zaragoza 67-70-70=207−92 strokes Flag of England.svg Hannah Screen

LET Access Series playoff record (0–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
12022 Calatayud Ladies Open Flag of Denmark.svg Sofie Kibsgaard Nielsen
Flag of New Zealand.svg Momoka Kobori
Flag of England.svg Amy Taylor
Taylor won with birdie on first extra hole

Team appearances

Amateur

Source: [2]

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References

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