Pia Babnik

After a four-year gap, Pia Babnik returns to the AIG Women’s Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes and with hopes of completing an R&A double after her success at the R&A Girls’ Amateur in 2019.

She also won that year’s Helen Holm Scottish Open and was the low individual in the European Ladies Team Championship.

Pia, who began playing golf as a three-year-old, decided against going down the conventional route of college golf and turned professional in 2019 having reached fifth on the World Amateur Golf Ranking and attaining a handicap of plus seven.

The decision paid dividends in 2021 when she won twice on the Ladies European Tour, with victories in the Jabra Ladies Open and Aramco Team Series – Jeddah. Among her many amateur achievements is a ten-under 58 in the 2018 Trnovo Masters.

To date, Pia's best major finish was third at the 2022 Chevron Championship.