Hira Naveed | |
Birth Date: | 3 February 1998 |
Birth Place: | New Zealand |
Residence: | Perth, Western Australia |
College: | Pepperdine University |
Yearpro: | 2019 |
Tour: | LPGA Tour (joined 2024) |
Extour: | Epson Tour (joined 2020) |
Prowins: | 1 |
Nabisco: | CUT: 2024 |
Lpga: | CUT: 2024 |
Wusopen: | DNP |
Wbritopen: | CUT: 2024 |
Evian: | CUT: 2024 |
Award1: | Western Australia Junior Girls Golfer of the Year |
Year1: | 2015 |
Award2: | West Coast Conference Player of the Year |
Year2: | 2019 |
Hira Naveed (born 3 February 1998) is an Australian professional golfer and LPGA Tour player. She was runner-up at the 2024 Ford Championship.[1]
Naveed was born in New Zealand and grew up in Perth, Western Australia.[2] In 2015, she won the Dunes Medal and the Victorian Junior Masters, and was named Western Australia Junior Girls Golfer of the Year.
Naveed played collegiate golf at Pepperdine University between 2015 and 2019 and was a four-time All-WCC first team pick. She was West Coast Conference Player of the Year and All-American as a senior after winning the West Coast Conference Championship. She was a member of the 2019 Arnold Palmer Cup international team.[3]
Naveed turned professional in 2019 and won the Long Beach Open on the Cactus Tour in her professional debut. In 2020, she joined the Epson Tour, where she recorded eight top-10 finishes before finishing 15th at LPGA Q-Series to earn LPGA Tour membership for the 2024 season.[4]
As an LPGA Tour rookie, Naveed was solo runner-up at the 2024 Ford Championship in Arizona, two strokes behind Nelly Korda, who won her third consecutive LPGA tournament.[5] [6] With the finish, she rose to 106th in the Women's World Golf Rankings.[7]
Source:[8]
Tournament | 2024 | |
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Chevron Championship | CUT | |
U.S. Women's Open | ||
Women's PGA Championship | CUT | |
The Evian Championship | CUT | |
Women's British Open | CUT |
Amateur