Mireia Prat

Mireia Prat
Personal information
Full nameMireia Prat Caballería
Born (1989-10-14) 14 October 1989 (age 35)
Torelló, Catalonia, Spain
Height5 ft 5 in (165 cm)
Sporting nationality Spain
ResidenceBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Career
Turned professional2012
Current tour(s)LET (joined 2012)
Santander Golf Tour
Professional wins9
Achievements and awards
LETAS Order of Merit winner2013
Santander Golf Tour Order of Merit winner2023
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Prat and the second or maternal family name is Caballería.

Mireia Prat Caballería (born 14 October 1989) is a Spanish professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She won the 2013 LETAS Order of Merit.[1]

Amateur career

Prat hails from Torelló in the Province of Barcelona, and started playing golf at the age of nine.[2] She enjoyed an amateur career where she representing Spain at the international level.[3]

She was part of the Spanish team that finished fifth at the 2007 European Girls' Team Championship. She played in the European Ladies' Team Championship three times. In 2009, her team finished fourth. In 2010, she had the best individual stroke play score alongside Camilla Lennarth and Spain lost the final to Sweden 4–3, after Prat was beaten in the singles by Lennarth on the 19th hole. In 2011, Spain again lost the final to Sweden, this time 5–2, and Prat lost her single match in the final to Amanda Sträng, 3 and 1.[4]

Professional career

Prat turned professional in early 2012 and joined the LET. She finished T30 at LET Final Q-School and lost a playoff for the 30th and last card, but played in 11 events her rookie season with limited status.[1]

In 2013, Prat made five cuts in six starts on the LET. She concentrated on the LET Access Series, where she won two the Ocho Golf Ladies Open – Galicia and Costa Blanca Ladies Open, and was runner-up at the Azores Ladies Open. She topped the Order of Merit, securing an LET card for the 2014 season. In 2019, Prat went back to Q-School and finished 23rd to earn membership for the 2020 season, where she finish 72nd in the Race to Costa del Sol.[1]

She was runner-up at the 2017 Terre Blanche Ladies Open in France and at the 2018 Santander Golf Tour LETAS El Prat, one stroke behind Julia Engström. In 2020, she lost a playoff to Luna Sobrón at Santander Golf Tour Lerma.[5]

In 2021, she won the Santander Golf Tour Sevilla, which doubled as the Spanish National Championship.[6]

In 2023, she was runner-up one stroke behind Casandra Alexander at the Jabra Ladies Classic on the Sunshine Ladies Tour, having led the tournament ahead of the final round after an opening score of 63.[7][8] In Spain, she won three tournaments on the Santander Golf Tour and secured the Order of Merit.[9]

Amateur wins

  • 2003 Interterritorial Children's Championship
  • 2006 Interterritorial Junior Women's Championship
  • 2008 Finnish International Junior Women's Championship
  • 2009 Finnish International Junior Women's Championship
  • 2010 Interterritorial Junior Women's Championship
  • 2011 Comunidad Valenciana Women's Amateur Championship

Source:[6]

Professional wins (9)

LET Access Series (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin
of victory 		Runner(s)-up Ref
1 3 May 2013 Ocho Golf Ladies Open – Galicia 202 –8 1 stroke Australia Bree Arthur [10]
2 20 Aug 2013 Costa Blanca Ladies Open 226 +10 2 strokes England Holly Calvert
Italy Vittoria Valvassori 		[11]

Santander Golf Tour (7)

  • 2018 Santander Golf Tour Lerma, Santander Golf Tour Neguri
  • 2019 Santander Golf Tour Basozabal
  • 2021 Santander Golf Tour Sevilla (Spanish National Championship)
  • 2023 Santander Golf Tour San Sebastián, Santander Golf Tour Burgos, Santander Golf Tour Cantabria

Team appearances

Amateur

References

  1. ^ a b c "Mireia Prat Player Profile". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Mireia Prat". Trans Sport. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Mireia Prat". World Amateur Golf Rankings. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  4. ^ "European Ladies' Team Championship – European Golf Association". Archived from the original on 21 October 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  5. ^ "2020 Santander Golf Tour Lerma". LET Access Series. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Prat Caballería, Mireia". Santander Golf Tour. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  7. ^ "Prat roars to Jabra Ladies Classic lead". SuperSport. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  8. ^ "Mireia Prat aprovecha sus oportunidades en Sudáfrica". Golf Catalonia. 26 February 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  9. ^ "2023 Ranking". Santander Golf Tour. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  10. ^ "Results 2013 Ocho Golf Ladies Open – Galicia". LET Access Series. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Results 2013 Costa Blanca Ladies Open". LET Access Series. Retrieved 27 October 2022.