Anna Cañadó (Reus, 2007) achieved her most spectacular result in a tournament on the other side of the Atlantic after finishing in a brilliant sixth place at The Junior Invitational 2024, tournament that was held in the town of Graniteville (South Carolina), and which brought together the best juniors in the world from 22 countries.
The Tarragona native became the best European playerafter completing the three rounds of the tournament with a total of 218 strokes (+2) with cards of 74.72 and 71 strokes, which took her to sixth place shared with the Canadian Vanessa Borovilos.
The FCGolf player finished 11 strokes behind the tournament champion, the North American Asterisk Talley, who clearly won, with 207 strokes (-9), six strokes ahead of the second, the Filipino Rianne Mikhaela Malixi (- 3), the only two players who managed to play under par.
International progression
A spectacular performance by the young woman from Tarragona that confirms her progression and with the pride of having stood up to some of the best players in the world in her under-18 category. Until now, His greatest success came last September in the Junior Solheim Cupproclaiming herself champion with the European team.
Last February, Cañadó was awarded as Female Athlete with the Greatest Projection, at the Festa de l’Esport Català, recognizing her successes as a young amateur athlete.
Anna Cañadó has already had the opportunity to compete on American soil, something she will do regularly starting next August when begin his new university stage at Duke (North Carolina) not far from where he has achieved this great result.
Four years of preparation in the United States after having won all the titles in Spain, which will define Cañadó’s options to finish as a professional, and be one of the new and fresh references of Spanish women’s golf in the coming years.