Noemí Jiménez Martín (born 12 November 1993) is a

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from

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and member of the

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(LET).

Early life and amateur career

Jiménez was born in

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in 1993 to Antonio Jiménez and Mercedes Martín. She had a successful amateur career and won the 2010

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. She was a semi-finalist at the

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in 2013, and she lost a playoff at the 2014

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to compatriot Luna Sobrón. Jiménez was a member of the Spanish National Team that won the 2013

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, alongside Camilla Hedberg, Luna Sobron, Natalia Escuriola, Marta Sanz Barrio and Patricia Sanz Barrio. She played on the winning

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team in 2013 and 2015, and represented Spain in the 2014 Espirito Santo Trophy alongside Marta Sanz Barrio and Luna Sobrón. Jiménez attended

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from 2011 to 2015 and played golf with the Arizona State Sun Devils women's golf team. She received the 2015 Edith Cummings Munson Golf Award.

Professional career

Jiménez turned professional in 2015 and joined the 2016

. As a rookie, she finished T8 at the New Zealand Women's Open and T10 at the Tipsport Golf Masters. In 2017, she made a few starts on the LET Access Series, where she was runner-up at the Bossey Ladies Championship in France, losing a playoff to Jane Turner of Scotland, and T3 at the WPGA International Challenge in England. The following year, she secured a title at the VP Bank Ladies Open in Switzerland. She also played in 14 LET events with a best result a T10 in the Jabra Ladies Open, and was T11 at the

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and the Ladies European Thailand Championship. In 2018, Jiménez also qualified for the

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as one of the top 25 on the

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not otherwise qualified, but did not make the cut. In 2019, she was T12 at the Women's NSW Open and at the South African Women's Open, and rose to just outside the top 300 in the

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. In 2021, she won the Regione Piemonte Pro-Am, preceding the Ladies Italian Open.

Amateur wins

*2010

*2013 Cal Classic, Darrius Rucker Intercollegiate *2014 NCAA D1 West Regional Source:

Professional wins (3)

LET Access Series wins (1)

Santander Golf Tour (2)

*2016 Santander Golf Tour Zaudín *2019 Santander Golf Tour Sevilla (with Silvia Bañón)

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing the Continent of Europe): 2013 (winners), 2015 (winners) *

(representing Spain):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

(winners),

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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 ...

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 Fren ...

(representing Spain):

Professional * European Golf Team Championships (representing Spain):

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 ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jimenez, Noemi Spanish female golfers Arizona State Sun Devils women's golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Golfers from Málaga 1993 births Living people 21st-century Spanish people 21st-century Spanish sportswomen