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Annabel Dimmock
English professional golfer
Annabel Dimmock (born 5 October 1996) is an English professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She won the 2019 Jabra Ladies Open.
| Annabel Dimmock | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Born | (1996-10-05) 5 October 1996 (age 27) London, England |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Sporting nationality |  England |
| Residence | London, England |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 2015 |
| Current tour(s) | Ladies European Tour (joined 2016) |
| Former tour(s) | LET Access Series (joined 2015) |
| Professional wins | 1 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| Ladies European Tour | 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 | 69th: 2019 |
| Evian Championship | CUT: 2019 |
Dimmock had a successful amateur career. In 2014, she won the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship, and the Sunningdale Foursomes with Steven Brown. She finished runner-up at the Welsh Women's Open Stroke Play Championship and the Spanish International Ladies Amateur Championship.
Dimmock was a member of the England Golf National Girl's squad and represented Europe in the 2014 Junior Ryder Cup, Great Britain and Ireland in the 2014 Curtis Cup, and Great Britain at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.[1]
She left school at 16 and played amateur golf full-time for year while weighing up her options.[2]
Dimmock turned professional in 2015 at age 18, and joined the LET Access Series. In 2016, she joined the Ladies European Tour where the best finish in her rookie season was a fifth in the Qatar Ladies Open, after heading into the final day two strokes off the lead.
She finished third at the 2017 Lalla Meryem Cup, before holding off French amateur Pauline Roussin-Bouchard to win her first Ladies European Tour title by one shot at the 2019 Jabra Ladies Open at Evian Resort Golf Club.[3] With the win, she qualified for her fist major, the 2019 Evian Championship. The week after she competed in the 2019 Women's British Open, where she made the cut.[4]
In 2020, she finished third in the LET total driving distance ranking, and in 2021 she lost in a playoff to 17-year-old Pia Babnik at the Jabra Ladies Open.[5]
Dimmock was in contention at the 2022 KPMG Women's Irish Open and finished in a tie for 4th, a stroke behind joining the playoff won by Klára Spilková.
Dimmock was formerly in a highly publicized relationship with English television personality Chris Hughes.[6]
Ladies European Tour (1)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score |
To par | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 May 2019 | Jabra Ladies Open^ | 69-69-68=206 | −7 | 1 stroke |  Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (a) |
^Dual-ranking event with the LET Access Series
Ladies European Tour playoff record (0–1)
| No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2021 | Jabra Ladies Open |  Pia Babnik |
Lost to birdie on first extra hole |
| Tournament | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chevron Championship | |||
| Women's PGA Championship | |||
| U.S. Women's Open | |||
| The Evian Championship | CUT | NT | |
| Women's British Open | T69 | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied
Amateur
- Women's Home Internationals (representing England): 2013
- Junior Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 2014
- Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain and Ireland): 2014
Professional
- The Queens (representing Europe): 2017
- "Biography Annabel Dimmock". Team GB. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- "Annabel Dimmock". Golf News. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- "Jabra Ladies Open: Annabel Dimmock wins first European Tour title in France". BBC. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- "Annabel Dimmock wins Jabra Ladies Open". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- "17-year-old Babnik wins in France". Golf Grinder. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- Rusk, Connie (24 June 2022). "Chris Hughes splits from golfer girlfriend Annabel Dimmock after weeks of speculation". Irish Mirror. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- Annabel Dimmock at the Ladies European Tour official site
- Annabel Dimmock at the Women's World Golf Rankings official site
- Annabel Dimmock at Team GB (archived)