Alessandra Fanali (born 30 July 1999) is an Italian

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who plays on the

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. She was runner-up at the 2022

Ladies Italian Open The Ladies Italian Open is a professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour held in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the midd ...

Amateur career

Fanali is from

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near

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and represents

Marco Simone Golf and Country Club Marco Simone Golf and Country Club (also known as Golf Marco Simone) is a golf course in Guidonia, Rome, Italy. It is 10 miles from the city centre of Rome and has 2 golf courses, an 18-hole Championship Course and a 9-hole Resort Course. In 2015 ...

after she started playing at Fiuggi Golf Club. She joined the Italian National Team and won the 2016

European Girls' Team Championship The European Girls' Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for women up to 18 organised by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1991. It was played in odd-numbered years from 1991 to 1999 and has bee ...

in Oslo together with

Caterina Don Caterina Don (born 9 January 2001) is an Italian amateur golfer. She has won the World Junior Girls Championship, the Vagliano Trophy, and the European Girls' Team Championship twice, and reached No. 2 in the European Golf Rankings following the ...

Alessia Nobilio Alessia Nobilio (born 7 September 2001) is an Italian amateur golfer. She won silver at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Amateur career Nobilio had a successful amateur career across Europe. She won the 2016 and 2017 International Juniors of Belg ...

and

Emilie Alba Paltrinieri Emilie Alba Paltrinieri (born 1 October 2001) is an Italian amateur golfer. In 2016 she won The R&A's Girls Amateur Championship. Amateur career Paltrinieri was born in Paris, France, before her family moved to Milan, Italy when she was a young ...

, beating a Swedish team with

Maja Stark Maja Sofia Stark (born 10 December 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer. She has six Ladies European Tour titles and earned LPGA Tour membership through her victory at the 2022 ISPS Handa World Invitational. As an amateur she was in contention ...

Linn Grant Linn Maria Grant (born 20 June 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour. As an amateur, she won the 2017 Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship and was in contention at the 2018 and ...

and

Frida Kinhult Frida Mikaela Kinhult (born 25 September 1999) is a Swedish professional golfer. She rose to world number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in June 2019 and won the 2020 Symetra Tour Championship to graduate to the LPGA Tour. Early life and ...

in the final. In 2017, she represented Europe in the

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alongside

Julia Engström Julia Anna Margareta Engström (born 27 March 2001) is a Swedish professional golfer. A golf prodigy, she became the youngest winner of the British Ladies Amateur, at age 15. She won twice on the Ladies European Tour as a teenager, and was the ...

Emma Spitz Emma Spitz (born 10 April 2000) is an Austrian professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. In 2018, she became the first Austrian to win The R&A's Girls Amateur Championship. Amateur career Spitz enjoyed a prolific amateur career. She w ...

and

Esther Henseleit Esther Henseleit (born 14 January 1999) is a German professional golfer and member of the Ladies European Tour and LPGA Tour. Amateur career Henseleit attended Freie Waldorfschule Oldenburg and played for Golfclub am Meer before switching to Ham ...

. In 2018, she lost a playoff at the Italian International Ladies Amateur Championship to

of Austria. Fanali appeared four times for Italy in the

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, finishing 4th in 2018 after they lost their semi-final to Sweden, securing the bronze against Germany in 2019, and losing the final in 2022 to England. Fanali played college golf at

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with the

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team 2018–22 alongside

and

Alexandra Försterling Alexandra Försterling (born 27 November 1999) is a German professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She won the 2023 VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open. As an amateur, she won the 2014 European Young Masters and was runner-up at the 2020 Europ ...

. She was named All-American and recorded one individual title. In 2019, she made a hole-in-one at the Annika Intercollegiate, and played in the inaugural

Augusta National Women's Amateur The Augusta National Women's Amateur (ANWA) is a golf tournament in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, held at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, Augusta and Champions Retreat Golf Club in nearby Evans, Georgia, Evans. stroke play eve ...

. Fanali shot a 67 in the final round of the 2022

at Margara Golf Club to join a playoff with

Morgane Métraux Morgane Métraux (born 18 March 1997) is a Swiss professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour (LET). In 2021, she won the Symetra Tour's Island Resort Championship, which helped her graduate to the LPGA Tour. In 20 ...

and

Meghan MacLaren Meghan MacLaren (born 15 May 1994) is an English professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. Early life and amateur career MacLaren starting playing golf at age 4 and attended The Ferrers Specialists Arts College between 2005 and 12, w ...

. She birdied the first playoff hole but Métraux sank a 20-foot putt for eagle to win.

Professional career

Fanali turned professional in 2022 and secured her card for the 2023

by birdying her final hole at

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, a lost ball in a palm tree earlier in the round having cost her two strokes. She started her rookie season well, with top-10 finishes at the

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and the

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, and came close to securing a first title at the

, where she lost a playoff to

. In 2023, she recorded a hand-full of top-10 finishes, including a tie for 4th at the

Jabra Ladies Open The Jabra Ladies Open is a professional golf tournament, introduced on the Ladies European Tour schedule in 2018. The tournament is played at the Evian Resort Golf Club in France and has since 2014 served as European qualifying competition for the ...

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, and was on the winning team at the Aramco Team Series – Riyadh alongside

Carlota Ciganda 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 t ...

and

Sára Kousková Sára Kousková (born 2 July 1999) is a Czech professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. In 2021 she won the Amundi Czech Ladies Challenge to become the first Czech amateur to win a professional event. In October 2022 she continued crea ...

Amateur wins

*2016 Coppa d'Oro Citta di Roma, Quercia d'Oro, Castello di Marco Simone Trophy *2017 Castello di Marco Simone Trophy *2022 Silverado Showdown Source:

Playoff record

Ladies European Tour (0–1)

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Europe): 2017 *

World Junior Girls Championship The World Junior Girls Championship (french: Championnat Mondial Junior Féminin) is an annual world amateur team golf championship for women under 18 organized in Canada. The inaugural event was held in 2014. Format The competition is open to fem ...

(representing Italy): 2017 *

(representing Italy): 2016 (winners), 2017 *

(representing Italy):

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References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fanali, Alessandra Italian female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Arizona State Sun Devils women's golfers Sportspeople from the Province of Frosinone 1999 births Living people