IOA Golf Classic

Alaqua Country Club | Longwood, Fla. | September 27-29

In the Winner’s Circle with Marta Sanz Barrio

September 29, 2019

Hometown/Resides: Madrid, Spain

Birthdate: August 27, 1992; currently 27 years, 1 month and 2 days

Qualified for LPGA Tour: Finished T43 at Final Stage of the 2014 LPGA Qualifying Tournament to earn Priority List Category 17 status for the 2015 LPGA Tour season 

Turned Professional/Rookie Year: October 2014

            

VICTORIES

Symetra Tour: Second career victory 

LPGA Tour: N/A

PREVIOUS WIN: 2018 FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship

VOLVIK RACE FOR THE CARD

With her win, Sanz Barrio jumps to No. 13 in the Volvik Race for the Card with $66,383 in total season earnings.

MONEY

With her win, Sanz Barrio collects a winner’s check of $26,250; she has earned $66,383 this season and $107,861 for her Symetra Tour career (2019 is her fourth season on the “Road to the LPGA”)

PREVIOUS SYMETRA TOUR AND LPGA TOUR FINISHES

Symetra Tour: 1st at 2018 FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship

LPGA Tour: 74th in the 2016 Ricoh Women’s British Open

2019 IN A NUTSHELL ON THE SYMETRA TOUR

Twenty events played and fifteen cuts made; $66,383 with one victory and four total top-5s

OF NOTE 

• Sanz Barrio, 27, is from Madrid, Spain
• Three-time All-SEC Second Team selection for Auburn University was also named to the 2011 SEC All-Freshman Team
• Won the 2014 Ingaro Ladies Open on the Ladies European Tour (LET) Access Series
• Finished T43 at the Final Stage of the 2014 LPGA Qualifying Tournament to earn Priority List Category 17 status for the 2015 LPGA Tour season
• Ladies European Tour (LET) member with more than 40 career starts, including a career-best showing of T6 at the 2015 ISPS Handa New Zealand Women’s Open
• Represented native country at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, leading Spain to the team title and capturing individual gold medalist honors
• Total of 34 career starts on the Symetra Tour entering 2019 and became a first-time champion at the 2018 FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship
• Really big soccer fan and especially huge supporter of Real Madrid CF

ABOUT SYMETRA TOUR

The Symetra Tour is the official qualifying tour of the LPGA Tour and enters its 39th competitive season in 2019. With the support of its entitlement partner Symetra, the Tour’s mission is to prepare the world’s best young women professional golfers for a successful career on the LPGA Tour. Since Symetra’s inaugural sponsorship year in 2012, the Symetra Tour has grown from 16 tournaments and $1.7 million in prize money to $4.0 million in prize money awarded over the course of 23 events. With more than 600 alumnae moving on to the LPGA, former Symetra Tour players have won a total of 437 LPGA titles. Follow the Symetra Tour on the web at www.SymetraTour.com, Facebook.com/Road2LPGA, Twitter.com/Road2LPGA, and YouTube.com/Road2LPGA.

ABOUT SYMETRA 

Symetra Life Insurance Company is a subsidiary of Symetra Financial Corporation, a diversified financial services company based in Bellevue, Washington. In business since 1957, Symetra provides employee benefits, annuities and life insurance through a national network of benefit consultants, financial institutions and independent agents and advisors. Symetra began its partnership with the Road to the LPGA in 2010 as the title sponsor of the Symetra Classic. It secured naming rights for the Symetra Tour in November 2011. In addition to its title sponsorship of the Tour, which runs through 2021, Symetra sponsors two events on the tournament schedule—the Symetra Classic and the season-ending Symetra Tour Championship. For more information about Symetra, visit www.symetra.com.