Julieta Granada

Julieta Granada
Granada at the 2007 LPGA Championship
Personal information
Born (1986-11-17) 17 November 1986
Asunción, Paraguay
Height 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Nationality  Paraguay
Residence Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Career
Turned professional 2005
Current tour(s) LPGA Tour (joined 2006)
LET (joined 2009)
Former tour(s) Futures Tour (2005)
Professional wins 3
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour 1
Symetra Tour 1
Other 1
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA Inspiration T7: 2011
Women's PGA C'ship T6: 2014
U.S. Women's Open T10: 2007
Women's British Open T5: 2014
Evian Championship T32: 2014
Achievements and awards
AJGA Player of the Year 2004
Athlete of the Year
in Paraguay
2005

Julieta Granada (born 17 November 1986) is a Paraguayan professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour.

Amateur career

Born in Asunción, Paraguay, Granada moved to the United States with her mother at the age of 14 in 2001 after receiving a scholarship to attend the David Leadbetter Golf Academy in Bradenton, Florida. While a student there, she earned numerous junior amateur titles. She was named to the American Junior Golf Association All-America Team from 2001 to 2004, and was the AJGA player of the year in 2004, when she won the U.S. Girls' Junior Championship. Granada graduated in 2005 from the Pendleton School, a private school established solely for students attending the Leadbetter Academy and other affiliated IMG sports academies.

Professional career

Granada turned professional in June 2005 at age 18 and competed on the Futures Tour that summer, joining in mid-season.[1] She placed second in her first and sixth events and won her first professional title at the season-ending YWCA Futures Classic in late August in York, Pennsylvania.[2] Granada won $29,153 in nine Futures Tour events to finish seventh on the 2005 money list,[3] which advanced her to the final stage of the LPGA qualifying tournament in December. She finished tied for sixth in the five-round event to earn her LPGA card for 2006.[4]

In her rookie season on the LPGA Tour, she was 19th on the 2006 money list going into the season-ending LPGA playoffs at the ADT in November. She won the final round of the elimination-format event in Florida to claim the first $1 million prize in women's golf and vaulted up to fourth on the money list. At the end of 2008, Granada attended qualifying school for the Ladies European Tour (LET) and has played on the LGPA and LET tours since.

Granada won the gold medal at the 2014 South American Games and the bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. She was the flagbearer for Paraguay at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she finished 44th.

Amateur victories and honors

  • 2001-2004: Member of American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) All-America Team.
  • 2002: Member of Canon Cup Team
  • 2003: Member of Canon Cup Team
  • 2004: Winner of AJGA Rolex Girls Junior Championship. AJGA Player of the Year. Quarterfinalist in USGA Amateur Public Links Championship. Athlete of the Year in Paraguay. Winner of South American Championship individual and team titles. Six overall wins in 2004.
  • 2005: Winner of South Atlantic Ladies Amateur Championship

Professional wins (3)

Futures Tour (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning
score
To par Margin of
victory
Runner-up Purse ($) Winner's
share ($)
1 Aug 28, 2005 YWCA Futures Classic 68-70-68=206 – 10 1 stroke United States Jessica Lewis 75,000 10,500

LPGA Tour (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning
score
To par Margin of
victory
Runner-up Purse ($) Winner's
share ($)
1 Nov 19, 2006 LPGA Playoffs at The ADT 70-69-69-68 – 4 2 strokes Mexico Lorena Ochoa 1,550,000 1,000,000

The total score is not shown because it did not determine the winner. Championship (fourth round) score is shown in bold.

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–2)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 2012 Women's Australian Open United States Jessica Korda
United States Stacy Lewis
United States Brittany Lincicome
South Korea So Yeon Ryu
South Korea Hee Kyung Seo
Korda won with birdie on second extra hole
2 2014 CME Group Tour Championship Spain Carlota Ciganda
New Zealand Lydia Ko
Ko won with par on fourth extra hole
Granada eliminated with par on second hole

Other (1)

LET playoff record (0–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 2010 Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open South Africa Lee-Anne Pace
Netherlands Christel Boeljon
United States Hannah Jun
Pace won with birdie on second extra hole
Granada eliminated with par on first hole[5]

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order before 2018.

Tournament20052006200720082009201020112012
ANA Inspiration T30 DNP T27 T63 CUT T75 T7 T35
U.S. Women's Open DNP T46 T10 CUT DNP CUT CUT CUT
Women's PGA Championship DNP T44 CUT T65 75 CUT T50 CUT
Women's British Open DNP 8 CUT DNP DNP CUT T59 7
Tournament201320142015201620172018
ANA Inspiration T41 CUT CUT 70 DNP DNP
U.S. Women's Open T25 T22 CUT CUT DNP CUT
Women's PGA Championship CUT T6 T22 CUT DNP CUT
Women's British Open CUT T5 T44 DNP DNP DNP
The Evian Championship ^ T57 T32 T64 DNP DNP DNP

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for a top-10 finish.

Summary

TournamentWins2nd3rdTop-5Top-10Top-25EventsCuts made
ANA Inspiration000011118
U.S. Women's Open000013114
Women's PGA Championship000012126
Women's British Open00013385
The Evian Championship00000033
Totals0001694526
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2005 Kraft Nabisco – 2007 Kraft Nabisco)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2014 British – 2014 LPGA)

LPGA Tour career summary

YearTournaments
played
Cuts
made
Wins2nd3rdTop 10sBest
finish
Earnings
($)
Money
list rank
Scoring
average
Scoring
rank
2005 3 2 0 0 0 0 T27 n/a 73.33
2006 30 26 1 2 0 7 1 1,633,586 4 71.33 15
2007 28 18 0 2 0 3 2 412,440 33 72.92 53
2008 25 12 0 0 0 0 12 101,140 100 73.31 105
2009 18 8 0 0 0 0 T20 65,229 106 73.94 126
2010 16 6 0 0 0 0 22 52,309 94 74.49 127
2011 18 9 0 0 0 2 T7 137,221 61 73.16 70
2012 26 20 0 1 0 4 T2 445,685 31 71.97 34
2013 26 19 0 0 0 2 T9 224,662 55 72.36 60
2014 28 27 0 1 0 8 T2 762,803 18 70.94 15
2015 28 25 0 0 0 2 T7 348,645 51 71.76 49
2016 22 8 0 0 0 0 T38 35,674 130 74.12 153
  • official through 2016 season[6]

LET career summary

YearTournaments
played
Cuts
made
Wins2nd3rdTop 10sBest
finish
Earnings
()
Order of
Merit
Scoring
average
Scoring
rank
2009 6 0 0 0 1 T9 21,335 63
2010 6 4 0 1 0 4 T2 37,886 56
2011 6 5 0 0 0 2 T6 38,944 62 71.33

Futures Tour summary

YearTournaments
played
Cuts
made
Wins2nd3rdTop 10sBest
finish
Earnings
($)
Money
list rank
Scoring
average
Scoring
rank
2005 9 9 1 2 0 4 1 29,153 7 70.88 n/a (4)

Team appearances

Professional

References

  1. "Futures golf tour announces 2005 tournament schedule". LPGA. 4 January 2005. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  2. "Former Player Bios: Julieta Granada". lpgafuturestour.com. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  3. "2005 money list". lpgafuturestour.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  4. "2005 Final Qualifying Tournament - results". LPGA. 4 December 2005. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  5. "Back-to-back wins for Pace in China". golfweek.com. October 31, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
  6. "Julieta Granada stats". LPGA. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
Olympic Games
Preceded by
Ben Hockin
Flagbearer for  Paraguay
Rio de Janeiro 2016
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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