Laura Fünfstück

Laura Fünfstück
Laura Fünfstück
Personal information
Born	21 December 1994 (age 29); Langen, Hesse, Germany
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Sporting nationality	Germany
Career
College	College of Charleston
Turned professional	2018
Current tour(s)	Ladies European Tour (joined 2018)
Professional wins	2
Number of wins by tour
ALPG Tour	1
Other	1
Best results in LPGA major championships;
Chevron Championship	DNP
Women's PGA C'ship	DNP
U.S. Women's Open	DNP
Women's British Open	T45: 2020
Evian Championship	DNP

Laura Fünfstück (born 21 December 1994) is a German professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. She won the 2018 South African Women's Masters and was runner-up at the 2023 La Sella Open in Spain.

Amateur career

Fünfstück started playing golf at the age of three when her parents bought her first set of plastic clubs. She won the 2013 French International Lady Juniors Amateur Championship (Internationaux de France – Trophee Esmond) and finished her amateur career with a win at the German National Amateur in 2017. Fünfstück was part of the German National Team, representing her country four times in the European Ladies' Team Championship and the 2014 Espirito Santo Trophy, the World Team Championship. She represented Europe at the Patsy Hankins Trophy in 2016.^[1]

Before turning pro in January 2018, Fünfstück played college golf and studied finance at the College of Charleston from 2013 to 2017. Three out of her four years, she was named Player of the Year in the Colonial Athletic Association conference, finishing top-25 in the 2017 NCAA Championship. She was the first College of Charleston female golfer to advance to Nationals and with five wins holds the school record for most college tournament wins. Fünfstück won the Kiawah Island Classic, the largest collegiate tournament in the country with a field of 232 players.^[2]

Professional career

In 2018, her rookie year as a professional, she won the South African Women's Masters. She joined the Ladies European Tour, where she made five starts and recorded a best finish of T8 in the Lalla Meryem Cup. In 2019, she played in 19 tournaments, posted six top-10 finishes, and ended the season in ninth place on the Order of Merit.^[1]

In 2020, Fünfstück ended the season in tenth place on the Race to Costa del Sol. She narrowly missed out on the playoff by a stroke at the Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic, ending T3 behind Minjee Lee and Céline Boutier. In 2021, she played in 10 LET events where her best finish of T7 at the Big Green Egg Open in the Netherlands. Hit with back pain, she took a one-year hiatus from tour in mid-2021 to focus on getting back to full health.^[1]

Amateur wins

2013 French International Lady Juniors Amateur Championship (Internationaux de France – Trophee Esmond)
2016 CSU Fall Invitational
2017 German National Amateur, Kiawah Island Intercollegiate

Source:^[3]

Professional wins (2)

Ladies Sunshine Tour

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	Feb 22 2018	South African Women's Masters	70-69-76=215	−1	1 stroke	Leján Lewthwaite Nobuhle Dlamini Shannon McWilliam

ALPG Tour

2020 Windaroo Lakes ALPG Pro-Am

Playoff record

Ladies European Tour (0–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2023	La Sella Open	Nuria Iturrioz	Lost to par on second extra hole

Team appearances

Amateur

European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Germany): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Germany): 2014
Patsy Hankins Trophy (representing Europe): 2016

Source:^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Laura Fuenfstueck Player Profile". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
^ "2016-17 Women's Golf Roster". CofC Sports. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Laura Fuenfstueck". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 20 August 2020.