Jana Melichová (born 22 October 1997) is a

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who plays on the

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. She won the 2022 Tipsport Czech Ladies Open and 2024 Dutch Ladies Open.

Early life and amateur career

Melichová was born in

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and became a member of the Czech National Team in 2013, representing her country in six consecutive European Ladies' Team Championships between 2016 and 2021. In 2014, she won the Czech Amateur Tour Final and in 2018 she won both the Czech National Match Play Championship and the Czech International Amateur Championship. Melichová enrolled at

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(ODU) in 2018 and joined the Old Dominion Lady Monarchs golf team. She graduated in May 2022 with a degree in International Business. During her collegiate career at ODU, Melichová made an immediate impact by breaking school program and personal records in her very first tournament. She was awarded Freshman of the Year in 2019. Melichová achieved one individual tournament victory and secured top-three finishes on eight occasions. She consistently held the first position on the ODU women’s golf team, contributing to the best team results in the program's history. As a senior, she qualified as an individual for the NCAA Regional Championship and advanced to the NCAA Championship. At the NCAA Championship, Melichová achieved a 13th-place finish and earned All-American honors.

Professional career

In June 2022, Melichová achieved a significant milestone by winning the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open, becoming the second Czech golfer to win on the

(LET), following Klára Davidson Spilková's victory in 2017. Her victory was historic as she secured it while still an amateur, earning her full LET membership. In 2023, she was runner-up in the team event at the Aramco Team Series – Hong Kong teamed with Trichat Cheenglab and Christine Wolf. Melichová’s second LET victory came at the 2024 Dutch Ladies Open. Melichová came from six shots behind leader Kim Métraux ahead of the final round to win by a stroke. She dedicated the victory to her mother, who passed away in 2022, and would have celebrated her 60th birthday on the first day of the tournament. The triumph earned her full playing status on the LET for the 2025 and 2026 seasons. In the history of Czech women's golf, only three players have won on the LET: Spilková, Kristýna Napoleaová, and Melichová. Notably, Melichová and Spilková are the only two Czech players to have secured two victories each. While Spilková won in 2017 and 2022, Melichová’s victories came in 2022 and 2024.

Amateur wins

*2014 Czech Amateur Tour Final *2016 Czech Amateur Tour 4, Czech International Junior U18 & 21 Championship, Faldo Series Czech Championship *2017 Czech Amateur Tour 3, Raiffeisenbank President Masters *2018 Czech Amateur Tour 2, Czech National Match Play Championship, Czech International Amateur Championship *2020 Maryb S. Kauth Invitational, SLR Academy Invitational Source:

Professional wins (2)

Ladies European Tour wins (2)

Team appearances

;Amateur * European Girls' Team Championship (representing Czech Republic): 2014, 2015 * European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Czech Republic):

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 ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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