Macarena Campomanes (born c. 1964) is a Spanish amateur golfer. She won the

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in 1986 and 1992, and won the

European Senior Ladies' Championship The European Senior Ladies' Championship is an annual European amateur golf championship for women over 50 (previously 55) organized by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1996, with 25 editions have been contested so fa ...

in 2016, 2018 and 2019.

Career

Campomanes was born in

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and grew up on a golf course owned by her father. She had a successful amateur career and won the 1984 Portuguese Ladies Amateur and the 1993

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, but never had any plans of turning pro, instead she got married and wanted to raise her three children. Her daughter Macarena Basagoiti is also a golfer and attended

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in South Carolina, where she played on the golf team. Campomanes won the

twice, first

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in Caracas, Venezuela with Mary Carmen Navarro and Maria Orueta, and again in

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in Vancouver, Canada together with Estefania Knuth and

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. She won bronze at the

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in Athens, Greece in the team event together with Amaya Arruti and Esther Valera. Upon coming of eligible age in 2015, Campomanes started competing in senior women's amateur events, and placed in the top three at the

for five straight years 2015–2019, winning the event three times. In 2017, she won

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's Ladies' Senior British Open Amateur Championship at

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, finishing on a five-over-par 218, five shots ahead of Sue Wooster of Australia and with the defending champion Laura Webb in third place. The win qualified her for the 2018 U.S. Senior Women's Open at

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, won by

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. In 2019, she won four titles, which helped her rise to No. 1 in the World Senior Women's Golf Ranking, where she stayed for over 65 weeks. Campomanes co-captained the winning European teams at the

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in 1999 and 2002, and captained the Continent of Europe in the

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on three occasions.

Amateur wins

*1984 (1) Portuguese Ladies Amateur *1993 (1)

*2016 (1)

*2017 (1)

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*2018 (1)

*2019 (4)

, Spanish International Senior Ladies' Championship, Campeonato de España Senior, Czech International Senior Amateur Championship *2021 (1) Spanish International Senior Ladies' Championship Source:

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing Spain): 1982, 1983 *

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(representing Spain):

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1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

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(representing the Continent of Europe): 1989 *

: (representing Spain):

(winners),

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(winners) *

European Senior Ladies' Team Championship The European Senior Ladies' Team Championship is a European amateur golf championship for women over 50 (previously 55) organized by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 2006 and the match is played every year. Before t ...

: (representing Spain): 2018, 2019, 2021 Source:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Campomanes, Macarena Spanish female golfers Amateur golfers Mediterranean Games medalists in golf Competitors at the 1991 Mediterranean Games Golfers from Madrid 1964 births Living people 21st-century Spanish women 20th-century Spanish sportswomen