Gabriella Cowley

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Gabriella Cowley
Personal information
NicknameGabs
Born (1996-03-10) 10 March 1996 (age 28)
London, England
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Sporting nationalityFlag of England.svg England
Residence Harlow, Essex, England
Career
Turned professional2014
Current tour(s) Ladies European Tour (joined 2016)
Former tour(s) LET Access Series (joined 2015)
Professional wins4
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 T60: 2024
Evian Championship DNP

Gabriella Cowley (born 10 March 1996) is an English professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She was runner-up at the 2021 Ladies Italian Open and the 2023 ISPS Handa World Invitational, an event co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour. [1]

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Amateur career

Cowley, with home club West Essex Golf Club and later Hanbury Manor, only started playing golf at the age of 13 but was soon a member of the England Golf National Girl's squad, and represented England at the Girls Home Internationals, Women's Home Internationals and the European Girls' Team Championship. [2] At the 2014 European Ladies' Team Championship at Linköping Golf Club, her team finished fourth after losing the semi-final to France. [3]

She also played in the 2014 Espirito Santo Trophy together with Hayley Davis and Bronte Law, finishing tied 8th, and represented and Great Britain and Ireland against Europe in the 2013 Vagliano Trophy and against the United States in the 2014 Curtis Cup. [4]

Individually, she won the 2011 English Girls Under 15 Championship and the 2012 North of England Under 16 Stroke Play Championship. She finished 5th at the 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival and was runner-up at the 2014 Portuguese International Ladies Amateur Championship, a stroke behind Silvia Banon Ibanez.

She made her major debut at the 2013 Women's British Open held at the Old Course at St Andrews, where she did not make the cut.

Professional career

Cowley turned professional in October 2014 and joined the LET Access Series in 2015, where she only made two cuts her first season. In 2016, her rookie season on the LET, she made three cuts in four starts and finished 16th in the Rookie of the Year ranking. In 2019, she recorded her first top-10 finish at the Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic. [1]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cowley participated in the Rose Ladies Series in England where she recorded four wins. [5] [6] Returning to play in Europe, she was runner-up 2021 Ladies Italian Open, a stroke behind Lucie Malchirand, and finished the season 33rd in the Race to Costa Del Sol. [7]

In 2022, she was the next best-placed female at the Scandinavian Mixed, a joint European Tour and LET event, 14 strokes behind winner Linn Grant. [8] She also finished in a tie for 8th at the KPMG Women's Irish Open and ended the season 24th in the rankings. [1]

In 2023, she was on the Casandra Alexander team that finished runner-up at the Aramco Team Series – Florida in May. [9] In August, she lost a playoff to Alexa Pano at the ISPS Handa World Invitational, an event co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour. [10]

Amateur wins

Source: [11]

Professional wins (4)

Rose Ladies Series wins (4)

Playoff record

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 2023 ISPS Handa World Invitational^ Flag of the United States.svg Alexa Pano
Flag of Germany.svg Esther Henseleit 		Pano won with birdie on third extra hole,
Henseleit eliminated with birdie on first extra hole.

^ Co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour

Results in LPGA majors

Cowley only played in the Women's British Open.

Tournament201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Women's British Open CUTCUTCUTT60
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

Team appearances

Amateur

Source: [11]

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References

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  2. ↑ "West Essex Golf Club's Gabriella Cowley helps England to Home International championship win". Guardian Series. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "European Ladies' Team Championship". European Golf Association. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  4. ↑ "Newcomers included in Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup line-up". Sky Sports. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "Hot putter delivers maiden win for Gabriella Cowley in 5th Rose Ladies Series event". Golf South. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  6. ↑ "Rose Ladies Series: Gabriella Cowley wins from Charley Hull and Georgia Hall in Staffordshire". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  7. ↑ "Ladies Italian Open: Gabriella Cowley finishes a career best second". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  8. ↑ "Scandinavian Mixed: Linn Grant becomes first woman to win on DP World Tour after dominant victory". Sky Sports. 11 June 2023.
  9. ↑ "Team Roussin Secure Two-Shot Victory In Florida". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  10. ↑ Schreiber, Max (20 August 2023). "Alexa Pano survives three-way playoff to notch first LPGA win on her 19th birthday". Golf Channel. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  11. 1 2 "Gabriella Cowley". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
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