CP Women’s Open

Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Aug. 25-28, 2022

In the Winner’s Circle with Paula Reto

Aug. 28, 2022

Hometown/Resides: Bloemfontein, South Africa/Coral Springs, Florida

Birthdate: May 3, 1990; currently 32 years, 3 months, 25 days

Qualified for LPGA Tour: Finished T13 at the 2013 LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to first earn LPGA Tour status

Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2013/2014

Caddie: Abimbola “Bebe” Olakanye

VICTORIES

LPGA Tour: With the win, Reto becomes a Rolex First-Time Winner

Other Tours: One win on the Sunshine Ladies Tour

RACE TO THE CME GLOBE
With her win, Reto earns 500 points; she is projected to move from 74th to 28th on the Race to the CME Globe points list with 280.110 points

MONEY

With her win, Reto earns $352,500; she has earned $605,082 this season and $1,412,303 in her career

PREVIOUS CP WOMEN’S OPEN RESULTS
2018 – 70; 2017 – MC; 2016 – MC; 2015 – T25; 2014 – MC

2022 LPGA TOUR PERFORMANCE

19 events played, 14 cuts made, $605,082 earned; one win with three additional top-20 finishes
 

OF NOTE

• Reto is the 2022 LPGA Tour season’s second winner from South Africa, joining Ashleigh Buhai (AIG Women’s Open)
• She is the fourth LPGA Tour winner from South Africa, joining Sally Little (15 wins), Ashleigh Buhai (one win) and Lee-Anne Pace (one win)
• She is the eighth Rolex First-Time Winner of the 2022 LPGA Tour season and the fourth consecutive first-time winner, following Ayaka Furue (Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open), Ashleigh Buhai (AIG Women’s Open) and Maja Stark (ISPS Handa World Invitational); the last time the LPGA Tour had four consecutive first-time winners was 2005
• Represented South Africa in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, finishing T16
  • Qualified to represent South Africa in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan, but had to withdraw due to a positive test for Covid-19
• A member of the 2010 NCAA National Championship team while at Purdue University
• Started playing golf at age 15; took up the game when she was injured playing field hockey
• Grew up in South Africa but moved to Florida with her family as a teenager

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