Elena Moosmann

Elena Moosmann
Personal information
Born (2002-04-20) 20 April 2002 (age 22)
Zug, Switzerland
Height167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Sporting nationality Switzerland
Career
Turned professional2023
Current tour(s)Ladies European Tour (joined 2024)
Former tour(s)LET Access Series (joined 2023)
Professional wins2

Elena Moosmann (born 20 April 2002) is a Swiss professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. As an amateur, she finished 3rd at the 2021 Ladies Swiss Open.[1]

Amateur career

Moosmann started playing golf at ten years old and had a successful amateur career.[1] At age 14, she won the Swiss Junior Tour Final and became ranked in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, where she played herself into the top-100 the following year as she won five titles including the Swiss Ladies Amateur.[2] She tied for 4th at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in the Mixed team event paired with Nicola Gerhardsen.[3]

In 2019, Moosmann lost a playoff at the European Nations Cup - Copa Sotogrande and won her first professional title, the VP Bank Ladies Open, an LET Access Series event in Switzerland with a mixed stroke play and match play format.[4] In 2021, she finished 3rd at the VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open, a Ladies European Tour event, only 2 strokes behind winner Atthaya Thitikul.[5] The same year she was runner-up at the Swiss Golf Open Championship behind Chiara Tamburlini, and at the Austrian Ladies Amateur, before winning the French Ladies Amateur.[2]

Moosmann was member of the Swiss National Team and appeared in three European Girls' Team Championships and three European Ladies' Team Championships. She also represented Switzerland in three World Junior Girls Championships and two World Amateur Team Championships, in 2018 at Carton House Golf Club in Ireland, and in 2022 at Le Golf National in France.[2]

Professional career

Moosmann turned professional in 2023 and joined the LET Access Series, where she won the Santander Golf Tour Zaragoza to finish 2nd in the Order of Merit and graduate to the Ladies European Tour for 2024.[6][7] In her rookie season, she recorded multiple top-10 finishes, including a solo 5th at the Aramco Team Series - Korea.[8]

Amateur wins

  • 2016 Swiss Junior Tour Final
  • 2017 Ticino Championship, Basel Championship, Swiss National Match Play Championship, Swiss International Ladies Championship, Suisse Centrale Championship
  • 2018 Ticino Championship, Leman Championship, Omnium Swiss National Strokeplay
  • 2020 Swiss National Juniors
  • 2021 French International Ladies Amateur Championship

Source:[2]

Professional wins (2)

LET Access Series (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning
score 		To par Margin
of victory 		Runner-up
1 5 May 2019 VP Bank Ladies Open
(as an amateur) 		1-up England Hayley Davis
2 28 Oct 2023 Santander Golf Tour Zaragoza 67-70-70=207 −9 2 strokes England Hannah Screen

LET Access Series playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2022 Calatayud Ladies Open Denmark Sofie Kibsgaard Nielsen
New Zealand Momoka Kobori
England Amy Taylor 		Taylor won with birdie on first extra hole

Team appearances

Amateur

Source:[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Player Profile Elena Moosmann". LET Access Series. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Elena Moosmann". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Results" (PDF). Buenos Aires 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  4. ^ Meredith, Cathryn. "Elena Moosmann 17-year-old Amateur Takes Title". Ladies Golf Magazine. No. 26. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  5. ^ "Swiss Ladies Open: Atthaya Thitikul edges out Marianne Skarpnord to claim one-shot victory". Sky Sports. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  6. ^ "Perfect end to the golf season for Elena Moosmann". Zuger Zeitung. 13 November 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Meet the 2023 LET Access Series Graduates". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  8. ^ "5. Rang für Elena Moosmann in Korea" (in German). Golf Home Schweiz. Retrieved 6 August 2024.