Isabella Holpfer (born 6 January 2001) is an amateur

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er from

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. She won the

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in 2015 and 2017, and was a finalist in

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Girls Amateur Championship The Girls Amateur Championship is a golf tournament held annually in the United Kingdom. Girls need to be under 18 on 1 January in the year of the championship. Until World War II the championship was organised by a series of magazines and always ...

in 2018 and 2019.

Amateur career

Holpfer was born in

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in 2001 to an Austrian father and a mother from Minnesota. She began competing in golf at a young age, and in 2009 in participated in the Austrian "Schüler Golf Cup U10" tournaments, eventually winning 21 events in her age group. Between 2010 and 2013 she also participated in the U.S. KidsGolf World Championship in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Holpfer joined the Austrian National Team and represented her country at the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017

European Girls' Team Championship The European Girls' Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for women up to 18 organised by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1991. It was played in odd-numbered years from 1991 to 1999 and has bee ...

s and at the 2019 and 2021

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. The top performance came in 2015 where she helped Austria earn a bronze medal at Golf Resort Kaskada in Kurin, Czech Republic. She helped Europe capture the

in both 2015 and again in 2017, where she posted a perfect 4–0 record to help the Europeans defeat Great Britain and Ireland by 15–3. She also excelled individually. Holpfer won the 2014 Austrian Match Play Championship at Salzkammergut Golf Club as a 13-year-old, the event's youngest winner ever. She recorded multiple international victories, including at the 2015 Irish Women's Open Stroke Play Championship, where she posted a par on the first extra hole in a sudden-death playoff with Chloe Ryan at Dún Laoghaire Golf Club to secure the title, after both golfers finished the 54-hole event at 221. In 2018, Holpfer shot a 1-under 287 to capture the Slovenian Ladies Amateur in Livada, holding off

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of Slovenia and fellow Austrian

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by one stroke. Holpfer also notched additional top-10 finishes at the

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(5th), the

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(5th) and the Portuguese Ladies Amateur (8th). She wrapped up the 2018 season with a dominating 11-stroke win at the

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at Coventry Golf Club, where she led wire-to-wire after posting a 7-under 66 in the opening round and eventually finished at 13-under. Holpfer finished runner-up at both the 2018 and 2019 R&A

. In 2018, at Ardglass Golf Club in Northern Ireland, Holpfer never trailed in her first four matches, and recorded a 2 and 1 victory over

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in the quarterfinals. She was defeated, 2 and 1, in the final by fellow Austrian

, who become the first Austrian to win the Girls Amateur. In 2019, she lost the final, 4 and 3, to

in the championship match at

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. Holpfer finished runner-up in her debut event on the

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, the 2019

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at Gams-Werdenberg Golf Club in Gams, Switzerland, where she lost a playoff to home player Elena Moosmann. In total, she recorded 28 top-10 finishes in 82 WAGR events between 2014 and 2020, and reached a rank of 25th in the

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College career

In 2020, Holpfer enrolled at the

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as a journalism major and started playing with the Georgia Bulldogs women's golf team.

Amateur wins

*2014 Austrian Match Play Championship *2015 Irish Women's Open Stroke Play Championship *2018 English Women's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship, Slovenian Ladies Amateur Source:

Team appearances

Amateur *

European Young Masters The European Young Masters is a European amateur mixed team golf championship for boys and girls under 16 organised by the European Golf Association The European Golf Association (EGA) is a non-profit organisation based in Epalinges, Switzerland ...

(representing Austria): 2014 *

(representing the Continent of Europe): 2015 (winners), 2017 (winners) *

(representing Austria): 2015, 2016, 2017 *

(representing Austria):

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

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(representing Austria):

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Holpfer, Isabella Austrian female golfers Amateur golfers Georgia Bulldogs women's golfers Expatriate golfers in the United States Golfers from Vienna 2001 births Living people 21st-century Austrian sportswomen