Albane Valenzuela

Albane Valenzuela achieved the best finish of her professional career when she was runner-up to Patty Tavatanakit at Honda LPGA Thailand in February 2024.

That landmark finish was aided by a career-low 9-under 63 on the Sunday, in which she needed only 19 putts on the greens.

Born in New York to a Mexican father and French mother, she became a Swiss citizen aged 14. Like Tiger Woods, Michelle Wie and Andrea Lee, she attended Stanford University in California and in took low amateur honours at the ANA Inspiration in 2016, before making the halfway cut in the US Women's Open, just a year after playing in the Junior Solheim Cup.

Valenzuela also qualified for the Olympic Games that year and reached second place on the amateur world rankings. Reached the final of the US Women’s Amateur in 2017 and 2019 before turning professional on finishing joint sixth at the LPGA Tour qualifying school.

Played her second Olympics in Japan in 2021 and achieved comfortably her best result in a major when finishing fourth at the Chevron Championship in 2023.