Teenager Gianna Clemente will be in the field for the Kroger Queen City Championship. The American came out on top for the third time in as many weeks in the Monday Qualifier. Lucy Li’s fine performance last week at Sylvania brought back images of the American who had competed at just 11 years old, ice in hand, at the 2014 US Women’s Open.
Gianna Clemente, schedule
In a few years, it may be those of Gianna Clemente that American TV will come out to talk about her first steps as a teenager on the LPGA. From the height of her 14 years, she has just won her ticket for the third consecutive week for an LPGA event after qualifying on Monday.
The Monday Qualifiers are played over 18 holes on the Monday before the tournament and offer some places to the best players as is also the case on the PGA Tour. Gianna Clemente is therefore a precocious. She held her first clubs at the age of 2 and therefore made her Ottawa debut at the CP Women’s Open.
A first experience that ended with a missed cut despite a good first card of 69 (-2). “It was a bit chaotic the first day because you have to plan the training games and I had no idea how it was going, she explained to the microphone of the LPGA.
My dad had a business meeting the first day, so I had to manage on my own at first. Even if I missed the cut, this first experience on the Tour with my father on the bag and to share that with him, it was great. Among amateurs, the teenager has already taken part in two U.S.
Women’s Amateurs (2019 and 2022) and ranks 102nd in the world. Last week at the Dana Open rebelotte! She qualified on Monday thanks in particular to a birdie at 17. An event she played almost at home since she was born in Youngstown, in the same state of Ohio.
The triple world champion in the youth categories had also regularly come to admire the world stars in previous years and in particular Lexi Thompson, of whom she is a great admirer. Unfortunately once again Gianna Clemente missed the cut. Three shots this time.
