Alexa Pano

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Alexa Pano
Personal information
Born (2004-08-20) August 20, 2004 (age 21)
Westborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
Height5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Sporting nationality United States
ResidenceLake Worth Beach, Florida, U.S.
Career
Turned professional2022
Current tourLPGA Tour (since 2023)
Former tourEpson Tour
Professional wins1
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour1
Ladies European Tour1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT60: 2024
Women's PGA C'shipT61: 2023
U.S. Women's OpenT58: 2024
Women's British OpenT10: 2024
Evian ChampionshipCUT: 2024, 2025

Alexa Pano (born August 20, 2004)[1] is an American professional golfer. She was featured in the 2013 documentary film The Short Game.[2]

Early life

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Pano was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, and her parents divorced when she was a baby. She has since lived with her father, Rick, in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.[3][4][5][6] She began playing golf at the age of 5.[7]

At the 2012 U.S. Kids Golf World Championship, then-7-year-old Pano and a group of her fellow competitors, including Allan Kournikova and Sky Sudberry, were filmed for The Short Game. At that point, she was only spending mornings at Citrus Cove Elementary School and taking the remainder of her classes through Florida Virtual School so that she could focus on golf. In the film, she said that she wanted to be the first woman to play in a tournament at Augusta, a feat that she accomplished seven years later when she competed in the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur.[8][9]

Amateur career

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Pano was the first three-time national finalist in the Drive, Chip and Putt competition.[10] She is tied for most U.S. Kids Golf World Championships with five in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016.[11]

Pano was the youngest golfer to play a LPGA of Japan Tour event when she played the 2016 Yonex Ladies Open at the age of 11.[12][13] At 13, Pano played in her first LPGA Tour event, the 2018 Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic.[14] The same year, she represented the United States for a win in the Junior Ryder Cup.[15]

In 2019, she became the youngest player in the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur.[16] She also qualified for the U.S. Women's Open, the youngest golfer that year.[17] She played for the winning team in the 2019 Junior Solheim Cup.

Professional career

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Pano turned professional in April 2022.[18] She earned status on the Epson Tour by finishing T-10th at Stage II of the 2021 LPGA Qualifying Tournament.[19] She earned her LPGA Tour card for 2023 via Q-School.[20]

On August 20, 2023, she won her first professional title, on her 19th birthday, at the ISPS Handa World Invitational at Galgorm Castle Golf Club (76-70-69-66=281, 8-under-par), in a three-hole playoff over Gabriella Cowley and Esther Henseleit.[21]

Amateur wins

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  • 2016 PDQ - Philadelphia Runner Junior
  • 2017 Ione D Jones-Doherty Amateur
  • 2018 Dustin Johnson World Junior Championship, Dixie Amateur
  • 2019 Dustin Johnson World Junior Championship, Scott Robertson Memorial, Rolex Girls Junior Championship, Ione D Jones-Doherty Amateur
  • 2020 Ione D Jones-Doherty Amateur

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Professional wins (1)

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LPGA Tour wins (1)

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Legend
Major championships (0)
Other LPGA Tour (1)
No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner-up Winner's
share ($)
1 Aug 20, 2023 ISPS Handa World Invitational[1] 76-70-69-66=281 −8 Playoff England Gabriella Cowley
Germany Esther Henseleit 		225,000

1 Co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour.

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2023 ISPS Handa World Invitational England Gabriella Cowley
Germany Esther Henseleit 		Won with birdie on third extra hole
Henseleit eliminated by birdie on first hole

Results in LPGA majors

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Results not in chronological order.

Tournament 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Chevron Championship T60 T67
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT T58
Women's PGA Championship T61 CUT CUT
The Evian Championship NT CUT CUT
Women's British Open T10 T33
  Top 10
  Did not play

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

LPGA Tour career summary

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Year Tournaments
played		 Cuts
made*		 Wins 2nd 3rd Top
10s		 Best
finish		 Earnings
($)		 Money
list rank		 Scoring
average		 Scoring
rank
2018 1 0 0 0 0 0 MC 0 n/a 73.50 n/a
2019 2 0 0 0 0 0 MC 0 n/a 72.75 n/a
2020 2 1 0 0 0 0 T41 0 n/a 73.20 n/a
2021 2 0 0 0 0 0 MC 0 n/a 77.25 n/a
2022 1 0 0 0 0 0 MC 0 n/a 75.00 n/a
2023 21 12 1 0 0 1 1 442,855 66 71.23 57
2024 28 18 0 1 0 2 2 557,421 68 71.89 86
Totals^ 49 (2023) 30 (2023) 1 1 0 3 1 1,000,276 324

^ Official as of 2024 season[24][25][26]
*Includes matchplay and other tournaments without a cut.

World ranking

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Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.

Year World
ranking		 Source
2019 1,016 [27]
2020 768 [28]
2021 934 [29]
2022 455 [30]
2023 125 [31]
2024 110 [32]

U.S. national team appearances

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References

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