LPGA Tour: In the Winner’s Circle with Gaby Lopez – 2022 Dana Open presented by Marathon

Gaby Lopez (courtesy LPGA Tour)

Dana Open presented by Marathon

Highland Meadows Golf Club| Sylvania, Ohio| Sept. 1-4, 2022

In the Winner’s Circle with Gaby Lopez

Sept. 4, 2022

Hometown/Resides: Mexico City, Mexico

Birthdate: Feb. 10, 1995; currently 28 years, 9 months and 26 days

Qualified for LPGA Tour: Tied for 10th at the 2015 LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to first earn LPGA Tour status for 2016

Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2015/2016

Caddie: Carlos Lopez

VICTORIES

LPGA: Third career victory

PREVIOUS LPGA WINS: 2020 Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, 2018 Blue Bay LPGA

RACE TO CME GLOBE

With her win, Lopez earns 500 points and is projected to move from 50th to 23rd in the Race to CME Globe

MONEY

With her win, Lopez earns $262,500; she has earned $616,983 this season and $3,230,997 in her career

PREVIOUS DANA OPEN PRESENTED BY MARATHONRESULTS

2018 – CUT; 2016 – T44

2022 LPGA TOUR PERFORMANCE

Eighteen events played, 12 cuts made; $616,983 earned with one win and one additional top-five finish

OF NOTE

  • This is Lopez’s first win since the 2020 Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions and the third of her career
  • With the $262,500 winner’s check, Lopez surpasses the $3 million mark in career earnings with $3,230,997
  • This is Lopez’s seventh season on the LPGA Tour; she has three wins and fifteen additional top-10 finishes
  • This is her 18th event of the 2022 season; Lopez has made twelve cuts with one win and one additional top-five finish
  • Lopez is a two-time Olympian representing Mexico; she finished T31 at the 2016 Rio Olympics and T38 at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
  • Lopez and the LPGA Tour Hall of Famer Lorena Ochoa are the only LPGA Tour winners from Mexico; Ochoa last won at the 2009 Navistar LPGA Classic before retiring in April 2010 with 27 LPGA Tour victories
  • Lopez is a 2016 graduate of the University of Arkansas, with a degree in communications

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