Annabel Dimmock (born 5 October 1996) is an English

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and

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player. She won the 2019

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and the Ladies Irish Open in 2024.

Amateur career

Dimmock had a successful amateur career. In 2014, she won the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship, and the

Sunningdale Foursomes The Sunningdale Foursomes is an open foursomes golf tournament contested at the Sunningdale Golf Club, Berkshire, in March. It was first contested in 1934 and has been held annually since, except between 1940 and 1947. The event is open to all go ...

with

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. She finished runner-up at the Welsh Women's Open Stroke Play Championship and the Spanish International Ladies Amateur Championship. Dimmock was a member of the England Golf National Girl's squad and represented Europe in the 2014

Junior Ryder Cup The Junior Ryder Cup is a team golf competition between Europe and the United States for junior golfers aged 18 and under. It is based on the men's Ryder Cup and is run by the same organisations, the PGA of America and Ryder Cup Europe. The 2018 ...

, Great Britain and Ireland in the

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, and Great Britain at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. She left school at 16 and played amateur golf full-time for year while weighing up her options.

Professional career

Dimmock turned professional in 2015 at age 18, and joined the

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. In 2016, she joined the

where the best finish in her rookie season was a fifth in the

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, after heading into the final day two strokes off the lead. She finished third at the 2017

Lalla Meryem Cup The Lalla Meryem Cup is a women's professional golf tournament in Morocco under the high patronage of His Majesty Mohammed VI of Morocco, King Mohammed VI. It was held in Rabat until it moved to Agadir in 2011. It moved back to Rabat in 2016. The ...

, before holding off French amateur

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to win her first

title by one shot at the 2019

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. With the win, she qualified for her first major, the 2019 Evian Championship. The week after she competed in the 2019 Women's British Open, where she made the cut. In 2020, she finished third in the LET total driving distance ranking, and in 2021 she lost in a playoff to 17-year-old

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at the

. Dimmock was in contention at the 2022 KPMG Women's Irish Open and finished in a tie for 4th, a stroke behind joining the playoff won by

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Personal life

Dimmock was formerly in a highly publicized relationship with English television personality

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Amateur wins

*2014 Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship,

(with

)

Professional wins (2)

Ladies European Tour (2)

^Dual-ranking event with the LET Access Series Ladies European Tour playoff record (1–1)

Results in LPGA majors

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Team appearances

Amateur *

Women's Home Internationals The Women's Home Internationals were an amateur team golf championship for women contested between the four Home Nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, where Ireland was represented by the whole island of Ireland on an All-Ireland basi ...

(representing England): 2013 *

(representing Europe): 2014 *

Curtis Cup The Curtis Cup is the best known team trophy for women amateur golfers, awarded in the biennial Curtis Cup Match. It is co-organised by the United States Golf Association and The R&A and is contested by teams representing the United States and " ...

(representing Great Britain and Ireland):

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 ...

Professional * The Queens (representing Europe): 2017

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dimmock, Annabel English female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Golfers from London 1996 births Living people 21st-century English sportswomen