Magdalena Simmermacher (born 23 March 1996) is an

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who plays on the

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. She was runner-up at the 2020 Ladies Open de France, 2021

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and 2022

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. She represented

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at the

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Amateur career

Simmermacher was born in

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, Argentina, the third of four siblings, and played golf from age four. She played

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for a well-known club in Buenos Aires and represented Argentina at the ADE in South Africa in 2011 until she decided to focus on golf at the age of 13. She won several National Championships between 2012 and 2017, including the Argentine National Ranking in 2013–14. She represented Argentina at three World Amateur Team Championships, four South American Individual Championships, and five 'Copa los Andes', being champions in 2017. Simmermacher played college golf in the United States at

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and graduated in 2018 with a degree in international business and a minor in economics. She played on the

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team all four years, earning Freshman of the Year 2014–15 and

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Player of the Year 2017–18. Her team claimed the Conference USA Championships in 2017.

Professional career

In March 2019, Simmermacher turned professional and joined the

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. She played in both of the season's dual LET/LETAS events and received an invitation for the LET event Estrella Damm Mediterranean Ladies Open, where she finished tied 17th. The week after, she came close to securing her first professional victory at the LETAS season finale, the

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, where she lost a playoff to Niina Liias of Finland. She ended 2019 ranked 585 on the

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as the best Argentine professional golfer and ninth in Latin America. Simmermacher finished second at Q-School to earn full status for the

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. At the

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, she recorded a bogey-free and career-low round of 66 to finish a career-high of T2, one stroke behind

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. She finished 2020 ranked 30th on the Costa del Sol Order of Merit and third in the

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ranking, behind

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and

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. Simmermacher

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for the

in Tokyo where she finished 58th. In

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, she recorded a season-best of runner-up at the

in Sweden and tied for third at the

. She formed the runner-up team at the

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with

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and

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. She finished 12th on the Costa del Sol Order of Merit and rose to 258th in the world ranking. In

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, Simmermacher led after the first round of the

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in Cape Town but eventually lost a six-hole playoff battle to defending champion

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. In May she finished third at the

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and

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, before captaining a team with

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and

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to a runner-up finish at the

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. Simmermacher earned her

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card for 2023 via

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Amateur wins (3)

*2012 Campeonato Argentino Damas de Menores y Menores 15 *2014 Campeonato Nacional por Golpes *2017 Campeonato Argentino de Aficionadas - Copa FiberCorp Source:

Playoff record

Ladies European Tour playoff record (0–1) LET Access Series playoff record (0–1)

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing Argentina):

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 ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Simmermacher, Magdalena Argentine female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers LPGA Tour golfers Olympic golfers for Argentina Golfers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Golfers at the 2023 Pan American Games Old Dominion Monarchs women's golfers Golfers from Buenos Aires 1996 births Living people 21st-century Argentine sportswomen