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Carlota Ciganda

Summary

Carlota Ciganda Machiñena (born 1 June 1990) is a professional golfer from Spain who plays on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. She won the LET's Order of Merit (money title) in her debut season in 2012, and was also named Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year.

Carlota Ciganda
Ciganda at the 2009 Women's British Open
Personal information
Born (1990-06-01) 1 June 1990 (age 33)
Pamplona, Spain
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Sporting nationality Spain
ResidencePamplona, Spain
Career
CollegeArizona State University
Turned professional2011
Current tour(s)Ladies European Tour (joined 2012)
LPGA Tour (joined 2012)
Professional wins10
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour2
Ladies European Tour7
LPGA of Korea Tour1
Other1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT4: 2015, 2019
Women's PGA C'shipT3: 2020, 2023
U.S. Women's Open3rd: 2018
Women's British OpenT7/7th: 2018, 2019
Evian ChampionshipT3: 2022
Achievements and awards
Ladies European Tour
Rookie of the Year		2012
Ladies European Tour
Order of Merit winner		2012
Ladies European Tour
Player of the Year		2012
Medal record
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 2009 Pescara Women's team
Silver medal – second place 2009 Pescara Individual

Early life and college career edit

Born in Pamplona, Spain, Ciganda started to play golf aged five, influenced by her father. Her uncle is the former football player and coach José Ángel Ziganda. She attended college in the United States at Arizona State University from 2008 to 2011,[1] where she majored in Business Administration. Ciganda speaks four languages.[2]

Amateur career edit

Ciganda enjoyed a successful amateur career, winning the British Ladies Amateur in 2007. She returned to the finals in 2009, but was runner-up to compatriot and ASU teammate Azahara Muñoz. Ciganda won the European Ladies Amateur Championship in 2004 and 2008, and was the Spanish National age group champion from 2000 to 2006. She was a member of Spain's 2006 and 2008 Espirito Santo Trophy teams, finishing second in 2008; 2005 and 2007 European Junior Solheim Cup teams and 2004 and 2006 European Junior Ryder Cup teams. While at Arizona State, she was a member of the Sun Devils' NCAA championship team in 2009 as a freshman, and made conference history as the first to win consecutive Pac-10 Championships in 2009 and 2010; she finished third in 2011.

Ciganda played in a number of professional tournaments as an amateur and first took part in the 2005 Tenerife Ladies Open at age 14. Although on that occasion she did not make the cut, she finished as the best Spanish representative in several professional tournaments, including the 2007 Open De España Femenino, when she finished eighth and the 2008 Tenerife Ladies Open when she was third, three shots behind the winner, Rebecca Hudson.[3]

Professional career edit

Ciganda turned professional in May 2011 making her debut the following month at the Tenerife Ladies Match Play, an unofficial event on the LET schedule, where she finished second to Becky Brewerton. She competed on the Ladies European Tour Access Series that season, winning the Murcia Ladies Open. In the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament in December 2011 she finished tied 34th, earning Priority List Category 20 for the 2012 LPGA Tour season and went on to finish third at the LET Final Qualifying School tournament later that month to earn full playing rights for the 2012 Ladies European Tour season.[3]

In her first full season on the 2012 Ladies European Tour, Ciganda won the ISPS Handa Order of Merit and was also named Players' Player of the Year, as voted for by the LET members. She played in 19 tournaments, with two victories at the Deloitte Ladies Open and the China Suzhou Taihu Open and had ten additional top-10s finishes. Her efforts won her the LET Rookie of the Year award and she ended the season ranked second on the European Solheim Cup points list with total earnings of €251,289.95.[3]

Ciganda was the ladies' winner of the 2019 AON Risk Reward Challenge, collecting the $1,000,000 prize.

Amateur wins edit

Professional wins (10) edit

LPGA Tour wins (2) edit

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up Winner's
share ($)
1 16 Oct 2016 LPGA KEB Hana Bank Championship[1] 69-70-69-70=278 –10 Playoff   Alison Lee 300,000
2 13 Nov 2016 Citibanamex Lorena Ochoa Invitational 67-72-68-68=275 –13 2 strokes   Austin Ernst
  Jodi Ewart Shadoff
  Karine Icher
  Sarah Jane Smith
  Angela Stanford 		200,000

1 Co-sanctioned by the LPGA of Korea Tour.

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–2)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 2014 CME Group Tour Championship   Julieta Granada
  Lydia Ko 		Ko won with par on fourth extra hole
Granada eliminated by par on second hole
2 2016 Meijer LPGA Classic   Kim Sei-young Lost to birdie on first extra hole
3 2016 LPGA KEB–Hana Bank Championship   Alison Lee Won with birdie on first extra hole

Ladies European Tour (7) edit

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin
of victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 3 Jun 2012 Deloitte Ladies Open 71-67-69=207 –9 2 strokes   Ursula Wikström
2 28 Oct 2012 China Suzhou Taihu Open 65-70-64=199 –17 7 strokes   Caroline Masson
3 2 Jun 2013 UniCredit Ladies German Open 68-33=101 –6 Playoff   Charley Hull
4 29 Sep 2019 Estrella Damm Mediterranean Ladies Open 72-68-65-71=276 −8 1 stroke   Esther Henseleit
5 28 Nov 2021 Andalucia Costa Del Sol Open De España 70-66-70-67=273 −11 4 strokes   Maja Stark
6 10 Jul 2022 Estrella Damm Mediterranean Ladies Open 65-67-68-70=270 −18 2 strokes   Laura Beveridge
7 21 May 2023 Aramco Team Series – Florida 72-69-73=214 −2 1 stroke   Klára Spilková

LET playoff record (1–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 2013 UniCredit Ladies German Open   Charley Hull Won with birdie on first extra hole
2 2017 Estrella Damm Mediterranean Ladies Open   Anna Nordqvist
  Florentyna Parker 		Parker won with birdie on fourth extra hole
Ciganda eliminated by birdie on first hole

LET Access Series (1) edit

  • 2011 (1) Murcia Ladies Open

Results in LPGA majors edit

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Chevron Championship T66 T61 T4 T56 T60 CUT T4 T24 CUT CUT T12 6
U.S. Women's Open T39 T57 T63 CUT CUT T5 3 T22 CUT T49 T28 T20
Women's PGA Championship T37 T13 CUT CUT T20 T33 T48 T3 CUT CUT T3
The Evian Championship ^ T52 CUT T38 T17 T32 T33 10 NT CUT T3 DQ
Women's British Open T52 CUT CUT T17 CUT T29 CUT T31 T23 T7 7 T51 T34 CUT CUT

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

  Top 10
  Did not play

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

Summary edit

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Chevron Championship 0 0 0 2 3 5 12 9
U.S. Women's Open 0 0 1 2 2 4 12 9
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 2 2 2 4 11 7
The Evian Championship 0 0 1 1 2 3 10 7
Women's British Open 0 0 0 0 2 4 15 9
Totals 0 0 4 7 11 20 60 41
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 12 (2018 US Open – 2020 PGA)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2019 Evian – 2019 British Open)

Professional career summary edit

LPGA Tour edit

Year Tournaments
played		 Cuts
made		 Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish		 Earnings
($)		 Money
list rank		 Scoring
average		 Scoring
rank
2012 3 3 0 0 0 0 T17 $79,679 85 73.25 n/a
2013 19 13 0 1 0 2 2 355,949 40 71.98 49
2014 23 18 0 1 0 1 T2 367,280 44 72.17 64
2015 25 19 0 1 0 3 2 404,849 42 71.77 51
2016 26 22 2 1 0 7 1 1,116,199 14 70.56 16
2017 22 20 0 0 1 7 T3 765,008 24 70.35 21
2018 25 22 0 2 1 9 2 1,244,610 8 70.09 8
2019 23 22 0 1 1 8 T2 998,654 15 69.94 10
2020 12 11 0 0 1 3 T3 477,707 20 70.58 9
2021 22 19 0 0 0 2 T5 329,944 61 71.17 56
2022 24 17 0 0 1 4 T3 826,614 33 70.58 29
2023 21 17 0 0 2 6 T3 1,096,662 23 70.20 10
  • official as of 2023 season[4]

Ladies European Tour edit

Year LET
wins		 Earnings
(€)		 Money
list rank		 Scoring
average
2012 2 251,290 1 70.46
2013 1 173,329 5 70.88
2014 0 140,730 5 70.32
2015 0 19,489 n/a 70.78
2016 0 57,266 n/a 71.36
2017 0 160,798 2 69.41
2018 0 153,094 69.31
  • official as of 2018 season[5]

World ranking edit

Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.

Year Ranking Source
2007 502 [6]
2008 504 [7]
2009 705 [8]
2010 605 [9]
2011 291 [10]
2012 50 [11]
2013 39 [12]
2014 46 [13]
2015 51 [14]
2016 20 [15]
2017 20 [16]
2018 15 [17]
2019 16 [18]
2020 15 [19]
2021 46 [20]
2022 52 [21]
2023 29 [22]

Team appearances edit

Amateur

Professional

Solheim Cup record edit

Year Total
matches		 Total
W–L–H		 Singles
W–L–H		 Foursomes
W–L–H		 Fourballs
W–L–H		 Points
won		 Points
%
Career 23 11–8–4 4–1–1 2–2–1 5–5–2 13 56.5
2013 3 3–0–0 1–0–0 def. M. Pressel 4&2 0–0–0 2–0–0 won w/ S. Pettersen 1 up
won w/ A. Muñoz 1 up 		3 100.0
2015 4 1–1–2 0–0–1 halved w/ L. Thompson 1–0–0 won w/ M. Reid 4&3 0–1–1 halved w/ M. Reid
lost w/ A. Muñoz 3&2 		2 50.0
2017 4 1–3–0 1–0–0 def. B. Lincicome 4&3 0–1–0 lost w/ C. Masson 1 dn 0–2–0 lost w/ E. Pedersen 6&5
lost w/ M. Reid 2 dn 		1 25.0
2019 5 1–2–2 1–0–0 def. D. Kang 1 up 0–1–1 halved w/ B. Law
lost w/ B. Law 6&5 		0–1–1 halved w/ B. Law
lost w/ A. Muñoz 2&1 		2 40.0
2021 3 1–2–0 0–1–0 lost to B. Altomare 2&1 0–0–0 1–1–0 lost w/ S. Popov 1 dn
won w/ N. Madsen 1 up 		1 33.3
2023 4 4–0–0 1–0–0 def. N. Korda 2&1 1–0–0 won w/ E. Pedersen 2&1 2–0–0 won w/ L. Grant 4&2
won w/ L. Grant 2&1 		4 100.0

References edit

  1. ^ "Player Bio – Carlota Ciganda". Arizona State University. Archived from the original on 11 May 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  2. ^ "LPGA Player Guide – Carlota Ciganda". LPGA Tour. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  3. ^ a b c "Ladies European Tour profile". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  4. ^ "Carlota Ciganda results". LPGA. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Carlota Ciganda stats". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  6. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 25 December 2007.
  7. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 30 December 2008.
  8. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 29 December 2009.
  9. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 28 December 2010.
  10. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 27 December 2011.
  11. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 31 December 2012.
  12. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 30 December 2013.
  13. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 29 December 2014.
  14. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 28 December 2015.
  15. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 26 December 2016.
  16. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 25 December 2017.
  17. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 31 December 2018.
  18. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 30 December 2019.
  19. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 28 December 2020.
  20. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 27 December 2021.
  21. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 26 December 2022.
  22. ^ "Women's World Golf Rankings". 25 December 2023.

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