Emilie Alba Paltrinieri (born 1 October 2001) is an Italian amateur golfer. In 2016 she won

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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

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s and the 2018

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in Canada. She played in the 2016

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in Japan and the

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in Ireland. She was a member of the European

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team in 2016 and 2018, and at the 2017

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. In 2016, Paltrinieri won

and in 2020 she reached the semi-finals of

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. 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

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. In the fall of 2019, Paltrinieri enrolled at

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and started playing with the

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team. Paltrinieri played in the European Tour's first full-field mixed professional tournament, the 2019

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, where she made the cut. In the 2020

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, a

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event, she finished 16th.

Amateur wins

*2014 (1) Gran Premio Vecchio Monastero *2016 (2) Italian Ladies Match Play (Giuseppe Silva Trophy),

*2018 (2) Italian Ladies Match Play (Giuseppe Silva Trophy), Italian Ladies Stroke Play Championship (Isa Goldschmid Trophy) *2019 (1)

Source:

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Italy): 2015, 2016 (winners), 2017, 2018 (winners), 2019 *

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(representing Italy):

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: (representing Italy): 2016 *

(representing Europe): 2016, 2018 *

: (representing the Continent of Europe): 2017 (winners) *

(representing Italy): 2018 (winners) *

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(representing Italy):

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References

External links

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official site
Emilie Paltrinieri
on the

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