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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Granada, Julieta
Granada, Julieta
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. LPGA, Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour, is an American organization for female professional golfers headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Granada, Julieta was born on 17th November 1986, in Asuncion, Paraguay. Her height is 5 foot 2 inches and started playing golf at the age of 4. She was qualified for the Tour on her first attempt. She was named the 2004 American Junior Golf Association, AJGA Rolex Player of the Year after winning the 2004 AJGA Rolex Girls Junior Championship. She also won five additional AJGA events and was named to the AJGA All-America Team from 2001 04. In 2002 and 2003, she was a member of the Canon Cup Team.
She won the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship in 2004 and was a quarterfinalist at the 2004 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links. She was named the 2004 Athlete of the Year in Paraguay and won the 2004 South American Team Championship individual and team titles. Also she won the 2004 Orange Bowl International Junior Championship and the 2005 South Atlantic Ladies Amateur. She was also the individual champion at the 2004 World Amateur Team Championship.
In 2005, she turned professional in June and played on the Futures Tour, where she won the YWCA Futures Classic and finished runner-up at the Bank of Ann Arbor Futures Golf Classic which was her first professional tournament and tied for sixth at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament presented by American Airlines to earn exempt status for the 2006 LPGA Tour season.
The desire to use her talents for the Glory and Honor of her God and Country propelled her in an attempt to excel at the highest level of sporting achievement to inspire future generations of her countrymen to do the same upholding the highest standards of patriotic fervor.
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