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Julieta Granada
Granada at the 2007 LPGA Championship
Personal information
Born (1986-11-17) 17 November 1986 (age 38)
Asunción, Paraguay
Height 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Nationality  Paraguay
Residence Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Career
Turned professional 2005
Current tour(s) LPGA Tour
Former tour(s) Ladies European Tour
Symetra Tour
Professional wins 3
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour 1
Futures Tour 1
Other 1
Best results in LPGA Major Championships
Kraft Nabisco C'ship T7: 2011
LPGA Championship T6: 2014
U.S. Women's Open T10: 2007
Women's British Open T5: 2014
The Evian Championship T32: 2014
Achievements and awards
AJGA Player of the Year 2004
Athlete of the Year
in Paraguay		 2005

Julieta Granada (born 17 November 1986) is a Paraguayan professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour.

Amateur career

Born in Asunción, Paraguay, Granada moved to the United States with her mother at the age of 14 in 2001 after receiving a scholarship to attend the David Leadbetter Golf Academy in Bradenton, Florida. While a student there, she earned numerous junior amateur titles. She was named to the American Junior Golf Association All-America Team from 2001 to 2004 and was the AJGA player of the year in 2004 when she won the U.S. Girls' Junior Championship. Granada graduated in 2005 from the Pendleton School, a private school established solely for students attending the Leadbetter Academy and other affiliated IMG sports academies.

Professional career

Granada turned professional in June 2005 at age 18 and competed on the Futures Tour that summer, joining in mid-season. She placed second in her first and sixth events and won her first professional title at the season-ending YWCA Futures Classic in late August in York, Pennsylvania. Granada won $29,153 in nine Futures Tour events to finish seventh on the 2005 money list, which advanced her to the final stage of the LPGA qualifying tournament in December. She finished tied for sixth in the five-round event to earn her LPGA card for 2006.

In her rookie season on the LPGA Tour, Granada was 19th on the 2006 money list going into the season-ending LPGA playoffs at the ADT in November. She won the final round of the elimination-format event in Florida to claim the first $1 million prize in women's golf and vaulted up to fourth on the money list. At the end of 2008, Granada attended qualifying school for the Ladies European Tour (LET) and has played on the LPGA and LET tours since.

Granada won the gold medal at the 2014 South American Games and the bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. She was the flagbearer for Paraguay at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she finished 44th. At the 2019 Pan American Games, she won the silver medals in the women's individual competition and the mixed team competition.

Amateur victories and honors

  • 2001-2004: Member of American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) All-America Team.
  • 2002: Member of Canon Cup Team
  • 2003: Member of Canon Cup Team
  • 2004: Winner of AJGA Rolex Girls Junior Championship. AJGA Player of the Year. Quarterfinalist in USGA Amateur Public Links Championship. Athlete of the Year in Paraguay. Winner of South American Championship individual and team titles. Six overall wins in 2004.
  • 2005: Winner of South Atlantic Ladies Amateur Championship

Professional wins (3)

Futures Tour (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning
score		 To par Margin of
victory		 Runner-up Purse ($) Winner's
share ($)
1 Aug 28, 2005 YWCA Futures Classic 68-70-68=206 – 10 1 stroke United States Jessica Lewis 75,000 10,500

LPGA Tour (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning
score		 To par Margin of
victory		 Runner-up Purse ($) Winner's
share ($)
1 Nov 19, 2006 LPGA Playoffs at The ADT 70-69-69-68 – 4 2 strokes Mexico Lorena Ochoa 1,550,000 1,000,000

The total score is not shown because it did not determine the winner. Championship (fourth round) score is shown in bold.

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–2)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2012 Women's Australian Open United States Jessica Korda
United States Stacy Lewis
United States Brittany Lincicome
South Korea So Yeon Ryu
South Korea Hee Kyung Seo		 Korda won with birdie on second extra hole
2 2014 CME Group Tour Championship Spain Carlota Ciganda
New Zealand Lydia Ko		 Ko won with par on fourth extra hole
Granada eliminated by par on second hole

Other (1)

  • 2007 (1) Women's World Cup of Golf (with Paraguay Celeste Troche)

LET playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2010 Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open South Africa Lee-Anne Pace
Netherlands Christel Boeljon
United States Hannah Jun		 Pace won with birdie on second extra hole
Granada eliminated by par on first hole

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order before 2018.

Tournament 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
ANA Inspiration T30 T27 T63 CUT T75 T7 T35
U.S. Women's Open T46 T10 CUT CUT CUT CUT
Women's PGA Championship T44 CUT T65 75 CUT T50 CUT
Women's British Open 8 CUT CUT T59 7
Tournament 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
ANA Inspiration T41 CUT CUT 70
U.S. Women's Open T25 T22 CUT CUT CUT
Women's PGA Championship CUT T6 T22 CUT CUT
The Evian Championship ^ T57 T32 T64 NT
Women's British Open CUT T5 T44 T56

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

     Top 10      Did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
"T" = tied

Summary

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
ANA Inspiration 0 0 0 0 1 1 11 8
U.S. Women's Open 0 0 0 0 1 3 11 4
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 1 2 12 6
The Evian Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Women's British Open 0 0 0 1 3 3 9 6
Totals 0 0 0 1 6 9 46 27
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2005 Kraft Nabisco – 2007 Kraft Nabisco)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2014 British – 2014 LPGA)

LPGA Tour career summary

Year Tournaments
played		 Cuts
made		 Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish		 Earnings
($)		 Money
list rank		 Scoring
average		 Scoring
rank
2005 3 2 0 0 0 0 T27 n/a 73.33
2006 30 26 1 2 0 7 1 1,633,586 4 71.33 15
2007 28 18 0 2 0 3 2 412,440 33 72.92 53
2008 25 12 0 0 0 0 12 101,140 100 73.31 105
2009 18 8 0 0 0 0 T20 65,229 106 73.94 126
2010 16 6 0 0 0 0 22 52,309 94 74.49 127
2011 18 9 0 0 0 2 T7 137,221 61 73.16 70
2012 26 20 0 1 0 4 T2 445,685 31 71.97 34
2013 26 19 0 0 0 2 T9 224,662 55 72.36 60
2014 28 27 0 1 0 8 T2 762,803 18 70.94 15
2015 28 25 0 0 0 2 T7 348,645 51 71.76 49
2016 22 8 0 0 0 0 T38 35,674 130 74.12 153
2017 8 0 0 0 0 0 Cut 0 n/a 74.25 n/a
2018 15 6 0 0 0 0 T39 39,164 137 71.85 69
2019 3 2 0 0 0 0 T58 9,204 167 71.67 n/a
2020 12 3 0 0 0 0 T56 16,246 136 74.13 131
2021 2 0 0 0 0 0 Cut 0 n/a 77.25 n/a
2022 Did not play
2023 7 1 0 0 0 0 T31 6,671 187 74.60 n/a
  • official through 2023 season

LET career summary

Year Tournaments
played		 Cuts
made		 Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish		 Earnings
(€)		 Order of
Merit		 Scoring
average		 Scoring
rank
2009 6 6 0 0 0 1 T9 21,335 63
2010 6 4 0 1 0 4 T2 37,886 56
2011 6 5 0 0 0 2 T6 38,944 62 71.33

Symetra Tour summary

Year Tournaments
played		 Cuts
made		 Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish		 Earnings
($)		 Money
list rank		 Scoring
average		 Scoring
rank
2005 9 9 1 2 0 4 1 29,153 7 70.88 n/a (4)
2017 4 1 0 0 0 0 T54 833 n/a 73.60 n/a
2018 2 1 0 0 0 0 T14 2,353 7 70.40 n/a
2019 19 18 0 3 1 8 2 94,343 6 70.16 3

Team appearances

Amateur

  • Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Paraguay): 2000, 2004

Professional

  • Lexus Cup (representing International team): 2006
  • World Cup (representing Paraguay): 2007 (winners), 2008

See also

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