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Player Bio: Gaby Lopez2020 U.S. Women's Open

 

Age: 27
Country: Mexico
College: Arkansas
Worldwide professional victories: 2 (both on LPGA Tour)
Exempt status: Top 30 points leader on LPGA Tour’s 2019 Race to the CME Globe; winner of LPGA Tour-sanctioned event from conclusion of 2019 U.S. Women’s Open to start of originally scheduled 2020 U.S. Women’s Open; top 75 in Rolex Rankings as of March 16

Lopez owns a pair of LPGA Tour victories, the latest coming in the 2020 Diamond Resorts International Tournament of Champions. Her first win came in the 2018 Blue Bay LPGA. Lopez qualified for the 2016 Olympics and finished 31st in Rio de Janeiro. As an amateur, Lopez finished as the runner-up in the 2015 NCAA Championships. She won three collegiate events at Arkansas, and she twice represented Mexico in the Women’s World Amateur Team Championships (2010, 2014). She is coming off a tie for ninth in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in October.  

U.S. Women's Open Playing Record

YEAR

SITE

SCORES

TO PAR

FINISH

2020 Champions Golf Club 74-71-74-76—295 +11 T-46

2019

Country Club of Charleston

72-70-67-78—287

+3

T-30

2018

Shoal Creek

77-73

+6

MC

2017

Trump National Golf Club (Old Course)

70-81

+7

MC

2016

CordeValle

71-72-71-73—287

-1

T-11

2015

Lancaster Country Club

72-76

+8

MC

2012

Blackwolf Run

80-78

+14

MC