Silvia Cavalleri (born 10 October 1972) is an Italian professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based

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and Ladies European Tour. She was the first Italian to win a tournament on the LPGA Tour.

Amateur career and education

Cavalleri was born in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, Italy. She won the 1990 Girls Amateur Championship and represented Europe in the

Vagliano Trophy The Vagliano Trophy is a biennial women's amateur golf tournament. It is co-organised by The R&A and the European Golf Association and is contested by teams representing "Great Britain and Ireland" and the "Continent of Europe". It is played in ...

five times between 1989 and 1997. She represented Italy in the

Espirito Santo Trophy The Espirito Santo Trophy (World Women's Amateur Team Championships) is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964. It was instituted by the Fre ...

World Amateur Team Championship in 1992 and 1996, was the 1996 World Amateur individual champion, and the 1997 U.S. Women's Amateur champion. She won the

European Ladies Amateur Championship The European Ladies Amateur Championship is an annual amateur golf tournament. It is organized by the European Golf Association and is one of the "elite" tournaments recognized by the World Amateur Golf Ranking The World Amateur Golf Ranking for men ...

in 1996 and 1997. She graduated from

Politecnico di Milano The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in 18 ...

university in 1998 with a degree in architecture.

Professional career

Cavalleri turned professional in 1997 and played in 1998 on the Ladies European Tour. She joined the LPGA Tour in 1999. She won her first professional tournament in 2007 at the

Corona Championship The Tres Marias Championship was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour, played from 2005 to 2010, at Tres Marias Residential Golf Club in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. From 2005 through 2009 the title sponsor of the tournament was ...

, becoming the first Italian to win an LPGA tournament.

Professional wins (2)

LPGA Tour (1)

Ladies European Tour wins (1)

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

Royal Marie-Claire Open

Results in LPGA majors

''Results not in chronological order before 2014.'' Note: The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.
^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013. CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing Italy):

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

(representing Italy): 1992, 1996 Professional *

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(representing Italy): 2006, 2008

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* * Italian female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers LPGA Tour golfers Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships Mediterranean Games medalists in golf Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games Polytechnic University of Milan alumni 1972 births Living people 20th-century Italian women 21st-century Italian women {{Italy-golf-bio-stub