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![]() Azahara Munoz after winning the 2008 NCAA Individual Championship ![]() |
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2007-08
2008 NCAA Individual Champion
Claimed the NCAA title by making a 25-putt in the first hole of a playoff against UCLA's Tiffany Joh
2008 Edith Cummings Munson Award Recipient
2008 First-Team All-Pac-10
2008 NGCA Academic All-American
2008 ESPN The Magazine First-Team Academic All-American
2008 ESPN The Magazine First-Team Academic All-District
Earned a 71.97 Stroke Average over eleven tournament appearances
Named Golf World's Best Player You Maybe Never Heard Of in December
Golf World Mid-Season All-American
Seven Top-5 Finishes; Ten Top-10 Finishes; 11 Top-20 Finishes
Is ASU's ninth NCAA Individual Champion
2006-07
2007 NGCA Second-Team All-American
2007 First-Team All-Pac-10
2007 NGCA Academic All-American
2007 First-Team All-Pac-10 Academic
Finished the season ranked 19th by Golfweek and 24th in the Golfstat Cup
Tied for second at both the Las Vegas Founders Collegiate Showdown and the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge
Tied her career low of 67 in the second round of the Las Vegas Founders Collegiate Showdown
Finished in the top-ten six times in her ten appearances on the season
Earned a 74.09 stroke average in her ten tournament appearances
2005-06
Named 2006 NGCA Second-Team All-American
2006 First-Team All-Pac-10
2006 NGCA Academic All-American
Finished first on the team with a 73.03 stroke average
Shot a career-best 67 at the 2006 PING/ASU Invitational
Finished in the top 10 eight times in 10 appearances, including a tie for sixth place at both the NCAA and Pac-10 Championships
Had a season-best third-place finish (-4) at the Wildcat Invitational
Tied for sixth (E) at the PING/ASU Invitational
Amateur
Runner-up at the 2008 U.S. Women's Amateur
2009 Ladies British Amateur Champion
Competed for Spain in the 2006 Women's World Amateur tying for third in the world
Qualified for the 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur
Earned an exemption into the Kraft/Nabisco Invitational and made the two-day cut
International Experience
Won the 2004 Girls' British Open Championship in Scotland and
finished second at the tournament in 2005
Was a member of Europe's Junior Solheim Cup Team in 2002, 2003, and 2005
Captured the 2002 Spanish Amateur title
Was the 2002 Spanish International Junior champion and was a
semifinalist at the event in 2004
Was ranked 10th in the country in the Junior Golf Scoreboard
rankings in 2004
Missed a win at the 2005 Thunderbird International Junior by just
one stroke
Member of the Spanish National Team
High School
A 2005 graduate of Ortega y Gasset in Madrid, Spain
Personal
Majoring in Psychology with a minor in Business
Hails from the same part of Spain as ASU All-American and 2003 NCAA champion Alejandro Canizares
The daughter of Jose Antonio Muñoz Santiago and Consuelo Guijarro Moreno of San Pedro de Alcantara, Malaga, Spain
Has two siblings: Elena Muñoz Guijarro (22) and Jose Muñoz Guijarro (27)
Enjoys going to the cinema with friends and listening to music
Born Nov. 19, 1987
AZAHARA MUNOZ 2008-2009 ROUND-BY-ROUND | |||||||
Tournament | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | Score | Place |
NCAA Fall Preview | 75 | 70 | 71 | 216 | E | T4 | |
Mason Rudolph Preview | 72 | 73 | 72 | 217 | +1 | 16 | |
The Derby Invitational | 72 | 70 | 69 | 211 | -5 | T2 | |
UCF Challenge | 72 | 69 | 73 | 214 | -2 | T10 | |
Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational | 72 | 70 | 76 | 218 | +2 | T5 | |
PAC-10 Championships | 73 | 68 | 71 | 212 | -1 | T5 | |
NCAA West Regional Championships | 69 | 71 | 72 | 212 | -4 | T6 | |
NCAA Championships | 78 | 71 | 72 | 72 | 293 | +5 | T4 |
8 appearance, 25 rounds, 1,793 strokes, 71.72 stroke average, 7 Top 10 Finishes, 8 Top 20 Finishes |
AZAHARA MUNOZ 2007-2008 ROUND-BY-ROUND | |||||||
Tournament | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | Score | Place |
Mason Rudolph | 67 | 73 | 71 | 211 | -5 | 6 | |
NCAA Fall Preview | 72 | 70 | 70 | 212 | -7 | 5 | |
Edean Ihlanfeldt | 76 | 72 | 75 | 223 | +7 | T12 | |
Stanford Intercollegiate | 72 | 73 | 69 | 214 | +1 | T3 | |
Northrop Grumman | 75 | 71 | 70 | 216 | +3 | T2 | |
Wildcat Invitational | 72 | 73 | 76 | 221 | +8 | T8 | |
Thompson Invitational | 76 | 70 | 75 | 221 | +5 | T4 | |
ASU/PING Invitational | 73 | 70 | 69 | 212 | -4 | T3 | |
Pac-10 Championships | 72 | 71 | 76 | 219 | +6 | 7 | |
NCAA West Regional | 69 | 71 | 71 | 211 | -5 | T3 | |
NCAA Championships | 69 | 72 | 73 | 73 | 287 | -1 | 1 |
11 appearances, 34 rounds, 2447 strokes, 71.97 stroke average, 10 Top Ten Finishes, 11 Top 20 Finishes |