Laura Fünfstück (born 21 December 1994) is a German

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who plays on the

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. She won the 2018

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and was runner-up at the 2023

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in Spain.

Amateur career

Fünfstück started playing golf at the age of three when her parents bought her first set of plastic clubs. She won the 2013 French International Lady Juniors Amateur Championship (Internationaux de France – Trophee Esmond) and finished her amateur career with a win at the German National Amateur in 2017. Fünfstück was part of the German National Team, representing her country four times in the

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and the 2014

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, the World Team Championship. She represented Europe at the

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in 2016. Before turning pro in January 2018, Fünfstück played college golf and studied finance at the

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from 2013 to 2017. Three out of her four years, she was named Player of the Year in the

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conference, finishing top-25 in the 2017 NCAA Championship. She was the first College of Charleston female golfer to advance to Nationals and with five wins holds the school record for most college tournament wins. Fünfstück won the Kiawah Island Classic, the largest collegiate tournament in the country with a field of 232 players.

Professional career

In 2018, her rookie year as a professional, she won the

. She joined the

, where she made five starts and recorded a best finish of T8 in the

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. In 2019, she played in 19 tournaments, posted six top-10 finishes, and ended the season in ninth place on the Order of Merit. In 2020, Fünfstück ended the season in tenth place on the Race to Costa del Sol. She narrowly missed out on the playoff by a stroke at the

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, ending T3 behind Minjee Lee and

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. In 2021, she played in 10 LET events where her best finish of T7 at the

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in the Netherlands. Hit with back pain, she took a one-year hiatus from tour in mid-2021 to focus on getting back to full health.

Amateur wins

*2013 French International Lady Juniors Amateur Championship (Internationaux de France – Trophee Esmond) *2016 CSU Fall Invitational *2017 German National Amateur, Kiawah Island Intercollegiate Source:

Professional wins (2)

Ladies Sunshine Tour

ALPG Tour

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Windaroo Lakes ALPG Pro-Am

Playoff record

Ladies European Tour (0–1)

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Germany):

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2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

(representing Germany): 2014 *

(representing Europe): 2016 Source:

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Funfstuck, Laura German female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Charleston Cougars women's golfers Sportspeople from Darmstadt (region) People from Offenbach (district) 1994 births Living people 21st-century German women