Carmen Alonso (born 15 July 1984) is a Spanish

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and

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(LET) player. She won her maiden LET title in 2023 after 19 seasons and 251 starts.

Amateur career

Alonso played on the national team and in 2000 won the

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both individually and with Spain, as

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won the boys' category. She won gold at the

2001 Mediterranean Games The XIV Mediterranean Games (), commonly known as the 2001 Mediterranean Games, were the 14th Mediterranean Games held in Tunis, Tunisia, from 2–15 September 2001, where 2,991 athletes (1,972 men and 1,019 women) from 23 countries participated. ...

and finished 5th at the

2000 Espirito Santo Trophy The 2000 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 23–26 August at Sporting Club Berlin, on its Nick Faldo Course, in Bad Saarow, outside Berlin, Germany. It was the 19th women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy. The ...

together with

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and

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. She was part of the Spanish juggernaut that won the

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in 2002 and 2004, and the

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in 2003. Alonso played in the European

Junior Solheim Cup The Junior Solheim Cup is a version of the Solheim Cup for girls aged 12 to 18. It was inaugurated in 2002. It is currently officially called the Ping (golf), PING Junior Solheim Cup. The Junior Solheim Cup follows a similar format to The Solheim ...

team in 2002 and won the

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with the European team in 1999 and 2002. She won the 2000 French Ladies Amateur and in 2001 she was runner-up at the

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and reached the semi-final of

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Professional career

Alonso turned professional in late 2004 after she finished T30 at the Ladies European Tour Qualifying School. In 2006, she recorded her first top-10 finishes, T7 at both the

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and the

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. In 2008, she was runner-up at the Ladies Italian Open. In 2005, Alonso played on the Nedbank Women's Golf Tour in South Africa and recorded a T3 at the Telkom Women's Classic, and 2nd at the Nedbank Women's Masters after she lost a playoff to Maria Beautell. She played in the

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and made the cut. In 2010, her sixth season on the LET, she led the LET statistics for average driving distance with an average drive of 287.85 yards. Alonso won her first professional title on the

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at the 2018

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. She was runner-up at the 2019 Santander Golf Tour LETAS Valencia, one stroke behind

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. In 2021, she recorded a T4 at the Creekhouse Ladies Open and in the team event of the

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she formed the runner-up team together with

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and

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. In 2023, at 38 years old, Alonso won her maiden LET victory at the Ladies Open by Pickala Rock Resort in Finland, after 19 seasons and 251 starts.

Amateur wins

*2000

(individual),

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*2001

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Source:

Professional wins (2)

Ladies European Tour (1)

LET Access Series (1)

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Spain): 2000 (winners) *

(representing the Continent of Europe): 1999 (winners), 2002 (winners) *

(representing the Continent of Europe): 2002 *

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):

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

(representing Spain): 2002 (winners), 2004 (winners) *

(representing Spain):

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

(winners)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alonso, Carmen Spanish female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in golf Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Sportspeople from Valladolid 1984 births Living people 20th-century Spanish women 21st-century Spanish sportswomen