Gabriella Then

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Gabriella Then
Personal information
NicknameGabby
Born (1995-10-22) October 22, 1995 (age 28)
LPGA Tour
Professional wins2
Number of wins by tour
Epson Tour1
Other1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipCUT: 2023
Women's PGA C'shipCUT: 2023
U.S. Women's OpenCUT: 2010, 2011, 2013
Women's British OpenDNP
Evian ChampionshipDNP

Gabriella Then (born October 22, 1995) is an American

Early life, college and amateur career

Then was born in

U.S. Women's Amateur at age 12, and competed in her first U.S. Women's Open
at age 14.

In 2011, Then was part of the victorious United States team at the

U.S. Girls' Junior Championship
at Sycamore Hills Golf Club in Fort Wayne.

Then attended the

USC Trojans women's golf team between 2013 and 2017. Her teammates included later LPGA members Sophia Popov and Annie Park, and they came close at the national championship on two occasions, including the 2015 NCAA Championship where they lost in the semi-finals. She had one college win, was named All-American in 2015, and set the school record for rounds played (245) over the course of her four-year career.[3]

Professional career

Then turned professional in 2017 and joined the Epson Tour. After three seasons, with a best finish of T4 at the 2017 PHC Classic, Then gave up professional golf and took a job in marketing and sales at a cosmetics company.[4]

In 2021, after an 18 months break, Then began playing tournament golf again and played on the Cactus Tour and the WAPT Tour, where she won her first professional events. She won the LET Q-School at the La Manga Club and started playing on the Ladies European Tour in 2022.[5]

In April 2022, she won the

Garden City Charity Classic at Buffalo Dunes
, her first title on the Epson Tour.

Personal life

Then met her partner Eric Sugimoto, a professional golfer who has played on the Japan Golf Tour, at USC.[2]

Amateur wins

  • 2011
    Rolex Tournament of Champions
  • 2013 Scott Robertson Memorial,
    U.S. Girls' Junior Championship
  • 2015 UC Irvine Invitational

Source:[6]

Professional wins (2)

Epson Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory
Runner-up Winner's
share ($)
1 Apr 29, 2022
Garden City Charity Classic at Buffalo Dunes
67-70-67=204 −12 2 strokes United States Alexa Pano 30,000

Women's All Pro Tour wins (1)

  • 2021 Kathy Whitworth Paris Championship

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Chevron Championship CUT
Women's PGA Championship CUT
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT CUT
The Evian Championship ^ NT
Women's British Open

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

  Did not play

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

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur

References

  1. ^ "Gabriella Then Bio". Epson Tour. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Gabby Then: A Study in Perseverance". Women's All-Pro Golf Tour. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
  3. ^ "Women's Golf Roster: Gabriella Then". University of Southern California Athletics. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
  4. ^ "Meet Gabriella Then, the former USGA champion who quit golf, won LET Q-School and then started a GoFundMe to get back out there". Golfweek. February 22, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
  5. ^ "Gabriella Then Bio". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
  6. ^ "Gabriella Then". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved May 7, 2022.

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