Silvia Bañón

Silvia Bañón
Silvia Bañón
Personal information
Full name	Silvia Bañón Ibáñez
Born	21 October 1992; Alicante, Spain
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Sporting nationality	Spain
Residence	Alicante, Spain
Career
Turned professional	2016
Current tour(s)	Ladies European Tour (joined 2018)
Former tour(s)	LET Access Series (joined 2016)
Professional wins	2
Best results in LPGA major championships;
Chevron Championship	DNP
Women's PGA C'ship	DNP
U.S. Women's Open	DNP
Women's British Open	CUT: 2018
Evian Championship	DNP

Silvia Bañón (born 21 October 1992) is a Spanish professional golfer and member of the Ladies European Tour (LET). She won the 2014 Portuguese Ladies Amateur and finished runner-up in the 2018 New South Wales Women's Open.[1]

Amateur career

In 2012, Bañón won the Campeonato de Alicante and was runner-up at the German Ladies Amateur, behind Céline Boutier. In 2014, she won the Portuguese Ladies Amateur and finished third at the 2014 World University Golf Championship in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, behind Tiffany Chan and Marta Sanz. She won the Campeonato de Espana Universitario de Golf in 2015 and 2016.[2]

Bañón turned professional in 2016 and started playing on the LET Access Series. In 2017, she was third in the Belfius Ladies Open and the Ribeira Sacra Patrimonio de la Humanidad International Ladies Open, and finished 10th on the LETAS Order of Merit.[1]

In 2018, Bañón was runner-up in the New South Wales Women's Open at Coffs Harbour Golf Club, two strokes behind Meghan MacLaren, and finished 26th in the LET Order of Merit. She made her major debut in the 2018 Women's British Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club where she did not make the cut. In 2019, she was consistent and made 14 cuts in 16 LET starts.[1]

Bañón sustained an injury to her arm and only made three appearances in 2020 but delivered one top-10, a 9th at the VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open.[3]

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Results not in chronological order.

Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = No tournament

Professional

"Silvia Banon Bio". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
"Silvia Banon Ibanez". WAGR. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
"Silvia Bañón: las lecciones de vida de la golfista por sorpresa" (in Spanish). Las Provincias. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
"Silvia Bañón". Santander Golf Tour. Retrieved 2 November 2021.

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