Aline Krauter (born 30 December 1999) is a German

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. She won

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in 2020, and the

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with Stanford in 2022.

Early life and education

Krauter hails from

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

and was educated at Saddlebrook Prep in Florida.

Amateur career

Krauter won the 2016

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and finished third at the 2018

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. She won the 2020 Women's Amateur Championship at West Lancashire Golf Club in England, 1 up, over home player

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. She became only the second German to do so, following

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in 2018. Krauter represented Germany at the 2016

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in Canada and at seven European Team Championships between 2016 and 2022, winning silver at the

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in Uppsala, Sweden alongside

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and

Paula Schulz-Hanssen Paula Schulz-Hanssen (born 1 April 2003) is a German amateur golfer. She won the 2019 European Young Masters and the 2020 European Ladies Amateur. Amateur career Schulz-Hanssen, as a member of the German National Team, won the European Girls' Te ...

. Krauter accepted a golf scholarship to

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and played with the Stanford Cardinal women's golf team between 2018 and 2022, and was a four-time All-American. In 2020, her fall semester of college golf was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While other conferences forged on, the

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did not compete. Krauter was in the original

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team announced in March 2020, but was dropped when the new lineups were presented for the postponed event in December. As the reigning Women's Amateur champion, Krauter was invited to both the 2021

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and the

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. The tournaments were played on the same dates so she chose to play the

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, where she was the only amateur in the field. She finished 3rd in the 2021 U.S. Open Collegiate Invitational. In 2022, Krauter graduated with a degree in International Relations and received the

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. She ended her amateur career a key player on the Stanford team triumphing in the

, and won the

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Professional career

Krauter turned professional in August 2022. She made her professional debut in September at the LPGA Tour's

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, where she finished tied 29th. She earned her 2023 cards for the

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and the

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via

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Amateur wins

*2016

*2020

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Source:

Team appearances

(representing Germany): 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 ...

(representing Germany): 2016, 2017 *

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(representing Germany):

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(representing the International Team):

(winners) Source:

References

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