Carmen Alonso

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Carmen Alonso
2009 Women's British Open - Carmen Alonso (5).jpg
Alonso at the 2009 Women's British Open
Personal information
Full nameCarmen Alonso Fuentes
Born (1984-07-15) 15 July 1984 (age 39)
Valladolid, Spain
Height168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Sporting nationalityFlag of Spain.svg  Spain
Career
Turned professional2004
Current tour(s) LET (joined 2005)
Professional wins2
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour1
Other1
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 T46: 2009
Evian Championship CUT: 2023
Medal record
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2001 Tunis Women's team

Carmen Alonso (born 15 July 1984) is a Spanish professional golfer and Ladies European Tour (LET) player. She won her maiden LET title in 2023 after 19 seasons and 251 starts. [1]

Contents

Amateur career

Alonso played on the national team and in 2000 won the European Young Masters both individually and with Spain, as Rafa Cabrera-Bello won the boys' category. She won gold at the 2001 Mediterranean Games and finished 5th at the 2000 Espirito Santo Trophy together with Tania Elósegui and Marta Prieto. She was part of the Spanish juggernaut that won the European Lady Junior's Team Championship in 2002 and 2004, and the European Ladies' Team Championship in 2003. [2]

Alonso played in the European Junior Solheim Cup team in 2002 and won the Junior Ryder Cup with the European team in 1999 and 2002.

She won the 2000 French Ladies Amateur and in 2001 she was runner-up at the Girls Amateur Championship and reached the semi-final of The Womens Amateur Championship.

Professional career

Alonso turned professional in late 2004 after she finished T30 at the Ladies European Tour Qualifying School. In 2006, she recorded her first top-10 finishes, T7 at both the Open de España Femenino and the Ladies English Open. In 2008, she was runner-up at the Ladies Italian Open. [3]

In 2005, Alonso played on the Nedbank Women's Golf Tour in South Africa and recorded a T3 at the Telkom Women's Classic, and 2nd at the Nedbank Women's Masters after she lost a playoff to Maria Beautell. She played in the 2009 Women's British Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club and made the cut. [3]

In 2010, her sixth season on the LET, she led the LET statistics for average driving distance with an average drive of 287.85 yards. [1]

Alonso won her first professional title on the LET Access Series at the 2018 AXA Czech Ladies Challenge. She was runner-up at the 2019 Santander Golf Tour LETAS Valencia, one stroke behind Manon De Roey.

In 2021, she recorded a T4 at the Creekhouse Ladies Open and in the team event of the Aramco Team Series – London she formed the runner-up team together with Marianne Skarpnord and Frida Gustafsson Spång.

In 2023, at 38 years old, Alonso won her maiden LET victory at the Ladies Open by Pickala Rock Resort in Finland, after 19 seasons and 251 starts. [4]

Amateur wins

Source: [1]

Professional wins (2)

Ladies European Tour (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning
score
To parMargin
of victory
Runner-up
11 Jul 2023 Ladies Open by Pickala Rock Resort 64-69-68=201−151 stroke Flag of Sweden.svg Johanna Gustavsson

LET Access Series (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning
score
To parMargin
of victory
Runner-upRef
116 Sep 2018 AXA Czech Ladies Challenge 70-66-69=205−113 strokes Flag of England.svg Inci Mehmet
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Tereza Melecka (a)
[5]

Team appearances

Amateur

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Carmen Alonso Player Profile". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  2. "Eauropean Team Championships". EGA. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Carmen Alonso Player Profile". Golfdata. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  4. "Alonso Claims Maiden LET Title with Dramatic Win in Finland". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  5. "Results 2018 AXA Czech Ladies Challenge". Golfdata. Retrieved 25 October 2021.