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Amaia Arruti
Spanish professional golfer
Amaia Arruti (born 8 August 1970) is a Spanish professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour 1993–2002, and won the Ladies Italian Open in 1993.[1]
| Amaia Arruti | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Born | (1970-08-30) 30 August 1970 (age 53) San Sebastián, Spain |
| Sporting nationality |  Spain |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1992 |
| Former tour(s) | Ladies European Tour (1993–2002) |
| Professional wins | 2 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| Ladies European Tour | 1 |
| Other | 1 |
Medal record | |
Arruti was born in San Sebastián in 1970 and started playing golf at the age of seven, as her father José Arruti Lizaso was a club pro at Real Golf Club de San Sebastián.[2]
Her sister Marina also played on the Ladies European Tour, and her father's twin brother Jesús Arruti Lizaso's son Jesús María has played on the European Tour.[3][4]
Arruti plays right-handed, but switches to left-handed for putting.[2]
In 1990, Arruti lost the final of the Spanish International Ladies Amateur Championship to Delphine Bourson, 4 and 3, and was runner-up at the European Ladies Amateur Championship in Switzerland a stroke behind Martina Koch.[5]
Arruti won bronze at the 1991 Mediterranean Games in Athens, Greece in the team event together with Esther Valera and Macarena Campomanes.[6]
Arruti turned professional on 1 December 1992 and joined the Ladies European Tour.[2]
In 1993, her rookie season, she beat Annika Sörenstam by two strokes to win the Ladies Italian Open at Golf Club Lignano near Venice. However, at the end of the season she lost out on the LET Rookie of the Year award to Sörenstam.[1]
In 1995, she won the Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco, and was runner-up at the Italian Ladies' Open, held at Il Picciolo Golf Club in Sicily, a stroke behind Denise Booker.[7]
Ladies European Tour (1)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score |
To par | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 Sep 1993 | BMW Ladies Italian Open | 270 | −18 | 2 strokes |  Annika Sörenstam |
Other wins (1)
- 1995 Lalla Meryem Cup (unofficial limited-field LET event)
- "2013 LET Tour Guide". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- "Amaia Arruti". Santander Golf Tour. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- "Player profile: Jesus Maria Arruti". European Tour. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- "Fallece Jesús Arruti Lizaso, gran referente de la enseñanza del golf en nuestro país" (in Spanish). Ten Golf. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- "Sieger und Platzierte" (PDF) (in German). German Golf Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- "Mediterranean Games 1991 Results" (PDF). CIJM. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- "Winners – Lalla Meryem Cup". Hassan II Golf Trophy Association. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
- Amaia Arruti at the Golfdata official site (in Swedish)