Jump to content

Cydney Clanton

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cydney Clanton
Personal information
Born (1989-07-18) July 18, 1989 (age 35)
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
Sporting nationality United States
ResidenceRockwell, North Carolina, U.S.[1]
Career
CollegeAuburn University
Turned professional2011
Current tour(s)LPGA Tour
Epson Tour
Professional wins4
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour1
Epson Tour3
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT60: 2018
Women's PGA C'shipT9: 2021
U.S. Women's OpenCUT: 2008, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2020
Women's British OpenT14: 2020
Evian ChampionshipCUT: 2016, 2017, 2018

Cydney Clanton (born July 18, 1989)[1] is an American professional golfer who has played on the LPGA Tour and the Epson Tour.[2] She has won three times on the Epson Tour and once on the LPGA Tour.

Amateur career

[edit]

Clanton played college golf at Auburn University where she won twice.[2] She also won the North and South Women's Amateur.[2] She played on the winning 2010 Curtis Cup team where she won two matches and halved a third. She also played on the U.S. team at the 2010 Espirito Santo Trophy that finished second to the South Korea team.[3]

Professional career

[edit]

Clanton turned professional in 2011 and played on the Symetra Tour that year.[2][4] She earned her LPGA Tour card for 2012 through the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament.[2] She has played on both tours since: winning the 2013 Four Winds Invitational and 2019 Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout on the Symetra Tour and the 2019 Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational on the LPGA Tour. The Dow tournament was a team event where she partnered with Jasmine Suwannapura.[1]

Amateur wins

[edit]

this list may be incomplete

Professional wins

[edit]

LPGA Tour wins (1)

[edit]
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 20 Jul 2019 Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational
with Thailand Thidapa Suwannapura
−27 (67-64-63-59=253) 6 strokes South Korea Ko Jin-young and
Australia Minjee Lee

Epson Tour wins (3)

[edit]

Results in LPGA majors

[edit]

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Chevron Championship T70
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT
Women's PGA Championship CUT
Women's British Open
Tournament 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2023
Chevron Championship CUT T60 CUT T70 CUT
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT CUT
Women's PGA Championship CUT T26 T64 CUT T37 T9 70 CUT
The Evian Championship ^ CUT CUT CUT NT CUT
Women's British Open CUT T49 CUT T14 CUT

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

U.S. national team appearances

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c "In The Winners' Circle with Jasmine Suwannapura and Cydney Clanton". LPGA. July 20, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Cydney Clanton – Bio". LPGA.
  3. ^ "Golf: Korea Wins Women's World Amateur Championship, U.S Second". Women's Sports & Entertainment Network. October 23, 2010.
  4. ^ "Cydney Clanton – Bio". Symetra Tour.
[edit]