Emma Spitz

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Emma Spitz
Golf Girls Individual Stroke Play Round 3 YOG18 11-10-2018 (106) (cropped).jpg
Spitz at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Personal information
Bornc.2000
Vienna, Austria
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Sporting nationality Austria
ResidenceGöllersdorf, Austria
Career
CollegeUCLA
StatusAmateur
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA InspirationDNP
Women's PGA C'shipDNP
U.S. Women's OpenCUT: 2020
Women's British OpenCUT: 2019
Evian ChampionshipDNP
Medal record
Youth Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Buenos Aires Girls' individual

Emma Spitz (born c.2000) is an amateur golfer from Austria. In 2018 she became the first Austrian to win The R&A's Girls Amateur Championship.[1]

Amateur career[]

Spitz has had 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.

Amateur wins[]

  • 2015 Austrian Stroke Play Championship, Austrian Match Play, Italian International Amateur Championship
  • 2016 Austrian Stroke Play Championship, European Nations Cup - Copa Sotogrande
  • 2017 Austrian Match Play
  • 2018 Girls Amateur Championship, Italian International Ladies Amateur Championship
  • 2019 Slovenian Amateur Championship
  • 2020 Austrian Stroke Play Championship, Austrian Stroke Play U21, Austrian International Amateur, Austrian Match Play, Bruin Wave Invitational
  • 2021 Austrian Stroke Play Championship, NCAA Simpsonville Regional

Source:[1]

Results in LPGA majors[]

Results not in chronological order

Tournament 2019 2020
ANA Inspiration
U.S. Women's Open CUT
Women's PGA Championship
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]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "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. 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.

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