Fátima Fernández Cano (born 23 October 1995) is a Spanish

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who plays on the

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and the

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Early life, amateur and college career

Cano was born in

Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, simply Santiago, or Compostela, in the province of Province of A Coruña, A Coruña, is the capital of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city ...

, Spain. As a junior player, Cano won the Galicia Championships in 2005. She played college golf at

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between 2013 and 2017. While at Troy, she was the

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individual champion her freshman year. During her junior season in 2016, she finished the season ranked as the #5 player in the NCAA, receiving an at-large bid to the NCAA Regional Qualifier. That same year, she was named

Golfer of the Year. She graduated from Troy with a bachelor's degree in business, as one of the best players in Troy and Sun Belt Conference history.

Professional career

In 2018, Cano turned professional and joined the

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. In August 2020, she won her first professional event, the IOA Championship in California. She finished second in the Race for the Card behind Ana Belac to earn LPGA Tour membership for the 2021 season. In 2021, she was only able to start in one

event, the Volunteers of America Classic where she finished T32, as COVID-19 froze the priority list. Instead she kept playing on the Symetra Tour, where she recorded 10 top-10 finishes including runner-up results at the Symetra Classic, Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout and the Carolina Golf Classic. She again finished second in the Race for the Card, this time behind

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, to earn LPGA Tour membership for the 2022 season. On her way to win the Carlisle Arizona Women's Golf Classic in March 2022, she carded a 61 in round three, to tie the lowest score in

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history. Plagued by pain in her arm, Cano made only a single LPGA Tour cut in 2023 and considered early retirement, before finally getting to the root of the problem and having surgery. In 2024, she joined the

, having tied for 5th at Q-School. In her rookie season she recorded a T-3 at the VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open and a T-4 at the Aramco Team Series - Riyadh. She finished 3rd in the

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rankings to regain her full LPGA Tour card for 2025.

Amateur wins

*2014 Sun Belt Conference Tournament, Chris Banister Classic *2015 John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate, Chris Banister Classic *2016 Kiawah Island Intercollegiate, Samford Intercollegiate, Henssler Financial Intercollegiate, Rebel Intercollegiate Source:

Professional wins (3)

Epson Tour wins (3)

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing Spain):

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez Cano, Fatima Spanish female golfers Troy Trojans athletes LPGA Tour golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Santiago de Compostela 1995 births Living people 21st-century Spanish sportswomen