Julieta Granada | |||||
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![]() Granada at the2007 LPGA Championship | |||||
Personal information | |||||
Born | (1986-11-17)17 November 1986 (age 38) Asunción,Paraguay | ||||
Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) | ||||
Sporting nationality | ![]() | ||||
Residence | Orlando, Florida, U.S. | ||||
Career | |||||
Turned professional | 2005 | ||||
Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour | ||||
Former tour(s) | Ladies European Tour Symetra Tour | ||||
Professional wins | 3 | ||||
Number of wins by tour | |||||
LPGA Tour | 1 | ||||
Epson Tour | 1 | ||||
Other | 1 | ||||
Best results in LPGA major championships | |||||
Chevron Championship | 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 | |||||
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Julieta Granada (born 17 November 1986) is aParaguayan professional golfer on the U.S.-basedLPGA Tour and theLadies European Tour.
Born inAsunción,Paraguay, Granada moved to the United States with her mother at the age of 14 in 2001 after receiving a scholarship to attend theDavid Leadbetter Golf Academy inBradenton, Florida. While a student there, she earned numerous junior amateur titles. She was named to theAmerican Junior Golf AssociationAll-America Team from 2001 to 2004 and was the AJGA player of the year in 2004 when she won theU.S. Girls' Junior Championship. Granada graduated in 2005 from thePendleton School, a private school established solely for students attending the Leadbetter Academy and other affiliatedIMG sports academies.
Granada turned professional in June 2005 at age 18 and competed on theFutures 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 inYork, 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 for2006.[4]
In her rookie season on the LPGA Tour, Granada was 19th on the 2006 money list going into the season-endingLPGA playoffs at the ADT in November. She won the final round of the elimination-format event in Florida to claim the first$1 million prize in women's golf and vaulted up to fourth on the money list. At the end of 2008, Granada attended qualifying school for theLadies European Tour (LET) and has played on the LPGA and LET tours since.
Granada won the gold medal at the2014 South American Games and the bronze medal at the2015 Pan American Games. She was the flagbearer for Paraguay at the2016 Summer Olympics, where she finished 44th. At the2019 Pan American Games, she won the silver medals in thewomen's individual competition and themixed team competition.
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner-up | Purse ($) | Winner's share ($) |
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1 | Aug 28, 2005 | YWCA Futures Classic | 68-70-68=206 | – 10 | 1 stroke | ![]() | 75,000 | 10,500 |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner-up | Purse ($) | Winner's share ($) |
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1 | Nov 19,2006 | LPGA Playoffs at The ADT | 70-69-69-68 | – 4 | 2 strokes | ![]() | 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 inbold.
LPGA Tour playoff record (0–2)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponents | Result |
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1 | 2012 | Women's Australian Open | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Korda won with birdie on second extra hole |
2 | 2014 | CME Group Tour Championship | ![]() ![]() | Ko won with par on fourth extra hole Granada eliminated by par on second hole |
LET playoff record (0–1)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponents | Result |
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1 | 2010 | Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Pace won with birdie on second extra hole Granada eliminated by par on first hole[5] |
Results not in chronological order before 2018.
! Tournament | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
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ANA Inspiration | T30 | T27 | T63 | CUT | T75 | T7 | T35 | |
U.S. Women's Open | T46 | T10 | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | ||
Women's PGA Championship | T44 | CUT | T65 | 75 | CUT | T50 | CUT | |
Women's British Open | 8 | CUT | CUT | T59 | 7 |
! Tournament | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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ANA Inspiration | T41 | CUT | CUT | 70 | ||||
U.S. Women's Open | T25 | T22 | CUT | CUT | CUT | |||
Women's PGA Championship | CUT | T6 | T22 | CUT | CUT | |||
The Evian Championship ^ | T57 | T32 | T64 | NT | ||||
Women's British Open | CUT | T5 | T44 | T56 |
^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied
Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
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ANA Inspiration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 |
U.S. Women's Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 4 |
Women's PGA Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6 |
The Evian Championship | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Women's British Open | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 6 |
Totals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 46 | 27 |
Year | Tournaments played | Cuts made | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top 10s | Best finish | Earnings ($) | Money list rank | Scoring average | Scoring rank |
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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 |
2017 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Cut | 0 | n/a | 74.25 | n/a |
2018 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T39 | 39,164 | 137 | 71.85 | 69 |
2019 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T58 | 9,204 | 167 | 71.67 | n/a |
2020 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T56 | 16,246 | 136 | 74.13 | 131 |
2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Cut | 0 | n/a | 77.25 | n/a |
2022 | Did not play | ||||||||||
2023 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T31 | 6,671 | 187 | 74.60 | n/a |
Year | Tournaments played | Cuts made | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top 10s | Best finish | Earnings (€) | Order of Merit | Scoring average | Scoring rank |
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2009 | 6 | 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 |
Year | Tournaments played | Cuts made | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top 10s | Best finish | Earnings ($) | Money list rank | Scoring average | Scoring rank |
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2005 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 29,153 | 7 | 70.88 | n/a(4) |
2017 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T54 | 833 | n/a | 73.60 | n/a |
2018 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T14 | 2,353 | 7 | 70.40 | n/a |
2019 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 94,343 | 6 | 70.16 | 3 |
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