Emilie Alba Paltrinieri
Personal information
Born (2001-10-01) 1 October 2001
Paris, France
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Sporting nationality Italy
ResidenceMilan, Italy
Career
CollegeUCLA
StatusAmateur

Emilie Alba Paltrinieri (born 1 October 2001) is an Italian amateur golfer. In 2016 she won The R&A's Girls Amateur Championship.[1]

Amateur career

Paltrinieri was born in Paris, France, before her family moved to Milan, Italy when she was a young child. She has been a member of the Italian National Team since age 11, helping her home country to victories at the 2016 and 2018 European Girls' Team Championships and the 2018 World Junior Girls Championship in Canada.[2]

She played in the 2016 Junior Golf World Cup in Japan and the 2018 Espirito Santo Trophy in Ireland. She was a member of the European Junior Ryder Cup team in 2016 and 2018, and at the 2017 Junior Vagliano Trophy.[3][4]

In 2016, Paltrinieri won Girls Amateur Championship and in 2020 she reached the semi-finals of The Womens Amateur Championship.[5]

In 2018, she captured the Italian double, winning both the Italian Ladies' Match Play and the Italian Ladies' Stroke Play Championship. The following year she won the German Girls Open.

In the fall of 2019, Paltrinieri enrolled at UCLA and started playing with the UCLA Bruins women's golf team.[6]

Paltrinieri played in the European Tour's first full-field mixed professional tournament, the 2019 Jordan Mixed Open, where she made the cut. In the 2020 Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic, a Ladies European Tour event, she finished 16th.

Amateur wins

  • 2014 (1) Gran Premio Vecchio Monastero
  • 2016 (2) Italian Ladies Match Play (Giuseppe Silva Trophy), Girls Amateur Championship
  • 2018 (2) Italian Ladies Match Play (Giuseppe Silva Trophy), Italian Ladies Stroke Play Championship (Isa Goldschmid Trophy)
  • 2019 (1) German Girls Open

Source:[7]

Team appearances

Amateur

Source:[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Emilie Alba Paltrinieri". European Tour. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "Emilie Alba Paltrinieri". Augusta National Women's Amateur. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Emilie Alba Paltrinieri in position to win in AJGA debut at ANNIKA Invitational". Golfweek. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "Emilie Alba Paltrinieri". Ryder Cup. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "Final Four set at Women's Amateur Championship". Amateur Golf. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  6. ↑ "Women's Golf Roster". UCLA Bruins. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  7. 1 2 "Emilie Alba Paltrinieri Player Profile". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
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