For the first time, a Spaniard has reached the top of the World Amateur Golf Ranking. The feat has been achieved by Julia Lopez, a young woman of whom we have already spoken a lot in this medium for her brilliant career, not yet having started at the professional level. She has six victories to her name, as well as achieving top ten finishes in half of the major tournaments she has played. Last year he was facing his first Major, a competition that not even many golfers achieve throughout their professional career. In addition to making the cut at the AIG Women’s Open, she took the lead in the driver. At the moment, the Mississippi State University student is competing in the European Women’s Senior Championship in Finland.

Julia Lopez Ramirez continues to prove that she was born to succeed in golf. Her great punch, her relaxed and smiling character and her determination have placed her at the coveted first place in the World Amateur Ranking. The Malaga-born player has overtaken England’s Lottie Woad to top a list dominated by South Koreans and Americans. Paula Martín (9), Andrea Revuelta (11), Cayetana Fernández (23), Rocío Tejedo (26) and Carla Bernat (27) accompany her at the top of the ranking.

The player from Malaga is defending her title this week at the European Women’s Senior Championship, which is being played at the Finnish course of Messilà Golf Club, where 144 golfers, thirteen of them Spanish: Andrea Revuelta, Paula Martín, Cayetana Fernández, Casilda Allendesalazar and Paula de Francisco, Lucía López, Carla and Rocío Tejedo, Carla Bernat, Balma Dávalos, Cloe Amión and Anna Cañadó. Leading the group are captain Carmen Laguna and coach Álvaro Salto.

Julia López came to golf by chance. In front of her house, in Benahavís, they installed a practice tee and her parents took her to try it out. From the very first moment, and at only three and a half years old, she was enthusiastic about golf and showed great skills. Although there was no golfer in the family, her parents supported her hobby on condition that she did not neglect her studies. Now, she has just taken the first step towards her great dream, winning a scholarship to study at BLUME. Excited, committed and eager, she has started the new course knowing that, from now on, for her, golf is more than a hobby…………… (read here her first interview).