Silvia Cavalleri is an Italian

Italy

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 professional golfer

Professional golfer

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 who plays on the U.S.

United States

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-based LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour

Ladies European Tour

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. She was the first Italian to win a tournament on the LPGA Tour.

Amateur career and education

Cavalleri was born in Milan

Milan

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, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

. She was the 1990 British Girls’ champion and represented Europe in the Vagliano Trophy five times between 1989 and 1997. She represented Italy in the Espirito Santo Trophy

Espirito Santo Trophy

The Espirito Santo Trophy is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964 and recent tournaments have featured teams from around forty countries. It is a strokeplay event, in which the best two...

 World Amateur Team Championship in 1992 and 1996, was the 1996 World Amateur individual champion, and the 1997 United States Women's Amateur Champion

United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship

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She graduated from Politecnico di Milano university in 1998 with a degree in architecture.

Professional career

Cavalleri turned professional in 1997 and played in 1998 on the Ladies European Tour. She joined the LPGA Tour in 1999. She won her first professional tournament in 2007 at the Corona Championship, becoming the first Italian to win an LPGA tournament.

LPGA Tour (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runners-up
1	29 Apr 2007 2007 LPGA Tour The 2007 LPGA Tour was a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world that took place from February through December 2007. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States based Ladies Professional Golf Association...	Corona Championship	-20 (69-68-69-66=272)	2 strokes	Julieta Granada Julieta Granada Julieta Granada is a Paraguayan professional golfer who plays on the United States based LPGA Tour and on the Ladies European Tour.-Amateur career:... ,   Lorena Ochoa Lorena Ochoa Lorena Ochoa Reyes is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010, and was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for over three years, from April 2007 to her retirement in May 2010...

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Kraft Nabisco Championship Kraft Nabisco Championship The Kraft Nabisco Championship is one of the four major championships on the LPGA Tour. It was founded in 1972 by Dinah Shore and has been classified as a major since 1983...	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	CUT	CUT	T51	70	CUT	CUT
LPGA Championship LPGA Championship The LPGA Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Wegmans LPGA Championship, is the second-longest running tournament in the history of the Ladies Professional Golf Association surpassed only by the U.S. Women's Open. It is one of four majors on the LPGA tour...	DNP	DNP	CUT	T22	CUT	DNP	CUT	T16	T62	T58	CUT	T62	T75
U.S. Women's Open	DNP	T27	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	CUT	T57	WD	CUT	DNP	DNP	CUT
Women's British Open Women's British Open The Women's British Open is a leading event in women's professional golf and the only tournament which is classified as a major championship by both the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. Since 2007, it has been called the Ricoh Women's British Open, for sponsorship reasons...	-	-	T25	CUT	T64	CUT	CUT	T45	CUT	DNP	DNP	CUT	CUT

Note: The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.

DNP = did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut

WD = withdrew

"T" tied

Green background for a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish.

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