Emma Spitz

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Emma Spitz
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Spitz at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Personal information
Born (2000-04-10) 10 April 2000 (age 24)
Vienna, Austria
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Sporting nationalityFlag of Austria.svg  Austria
Residence Göllersdorf, Austria
Career
College UCLA
Turned professional2022
Current tour(s) Ladies European Tour
Epson Tour
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship DNP
Women's PGA C'ship DNP
U.S. Women's Open T59: 2023
Women's British Open CUT: 2019
Evian Championship DNP
Medal record
Youth Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Buenos Aires Girls' individual

Emma Spitz (born 10 April 2000) is an Austrian professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. In 2018, she became the first Austrian to win The R&A's Girls Amateur Championship. [1]

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Amateur career

Spitz enjoyed a prolific amateur career. She won the Austrian Stroke Play Championship in 2015, 2016, 2020 and 2021, and was runner up at the event in 2018 and 2019. In 2017 she was runner-up at the German Girls Open and the Austrian International Amateur, which she subsequently won in 2020. She has won the Austrian Match Play three times, and the Italian International Amateur Championship twice. She was runner up at the 2018 Slovenian Amateur Championship, and won the event in 2019.

Spitz played for the National Team starting in 2013 and represented Austria at five European Girls/Ladies Team Championship between 2015 and 2019, and at the Espirito Santo Trophy in 2016 and 2018.

She represented Europe at the Junior Solheim Cup in 2015 and 2017, the Junior Ryder Cup in 2016 and 2018, the Junior Vagliano Trophy in 2015, the Patsy Hankins Trophy in 2016, and the Vagliano Trophy in 2019.

In 2018, Spitz defeated fellow Austrian Isabella Holpfer, 2 and 1, to win the British Girls Amateur Championship at Ardglass, Northern Ireland. [2] She qualified for the 2019 Women's British Open at Woburn Golf Club in England, but missed the cut.

At the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, she lost a playoff for the silver medal and had to settle for bronze in the Girls event and a 4th place in the Mixed team event. She finished fourth at the 2020 European Ladies Amateur.

College career

Spitz enrolled at UCLA in 2019 as a psychology major. As a freshman, she was an Annika Award finalist, a WGCA and Golfweek First Team All-American, and led UCLA in scoring average. [3] [4]

She made her U.S. Women's Open debut by virtue of being number 20 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in 2020 at Champions Golf Club, but missed the cut. [5]

Spitz played in the Arnold Palmer Cup in 2020 and 2021. She finished 3rd at the 2021 Augusta National Women's Amateur and was runner-up one stroke behind Rachel Heck of Stanford at the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships.

Professional career

Waiting until she was in the top five in the World Amateur Golf Ranking to ensure her place at Final Qualifying tournament for the LPGA and LET, Spitz turned professional in August 2022. She made her professional debut at Skaftö Open, where she tied for 10th place. The following week, she led the Åland 100 Ladies Open after the first round together with Ursula Wikström, and ultimately finished 4th. [6]

Spitz secured her card for the 2023 Ladies European Tour by finishing T6 at Q-School. She earned a spot in the field in the 2023 U.S. Women's Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links by winning the European qualifier held at Golf Club de Naxhelet in Belgium. [7]

Amateur wins

Source: [1]

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order

Tournament20192020202120222023
ANA Inspiration
Women's PGA Championship
U.S. Women's Open CUTT59
The Evian Championship NT
Women's British Open CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

Source: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Emma Spitz". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "Austria's Emma Spitz wins Girls' British Open Amateur Championship". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  3. ↑ "UCLA Freshman Spitz Named All-American". Cal Golf News. 26 April 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "2020-21 Women's Golf Roster". UCLA Bruins. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "Emma Spitz – Bio". USGA. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  6. ↑ "Spitz Holds Clubhouse Lead". Ladies European Tour. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  7. ↑ "U.S. Women's Open qualifying: Who made it to Pebble Beach". Golf Channel. 31 May 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
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