Marina Alex

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Marina Alex retired from professional golf at the end of the 2024 LPGA Tour season. After a stellar career, Alex compiled two career victories and 35 career top-10s.

Prior to turning professional in 2012, Alex, a Wayne native built an impressive amateur career. Statewide, Alex won the 2003 New Jersey Junior Girls’ Championship and won back-to-back high school individual championships playing for Wayne Hills High School. In 2005, Alex finished as runner-up in the New Jersey Women's Amateur Championship at Rumson Country Club.

She went on to play collegiately at Vanderbilt University, where she won the 2010 Southeastern Conference Women’s Championship as a sophomore, finished runner-up as a senior, and earned Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American status in 2010 and 2012.

Alex becomes the 11th woman enshrined into the NJ Golf Hall of Fame. She is also a member of the Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame.

Accomplishments

Amateur

2003 Pioneer Tour Yaz Consalvo Winner, Tour Championship Winner.

2004 Pioneer Tour Players Championship Winner, Tour Championship Winner

2005 Pioneer Tour Open Champion

2005 NJSGA Women’s Amateur runner up

2007, 2008 NJSIAA Champion

2008 NJSGA Mixed Pinehurst Champion, with Paul Samanchik

2010 SEC Champion; runner-up in 2012

2010, 2012 SEC Player of the Year while at Vanderbilt University

2010, 2012 WGCA First-Team All-American

Inducted in the 2015 class of Vanderbilt's Hall of Fame.

Professional

2012 joined Epson Tour, recording two top-10 finishes and a season-best T3 at the Challenge at Musket Ridge.

2013 made three starts as LPGA Tour as a Rookie, six top 10’s on the Epson Tour

2014 career-best tie for 9th at ROCOH Women’s British Open

2016 Volvik Championship (T6)

2017 CP Women's Open (T3)

2017 U.S. Women's Open (T11)

2017 Finished first in holes in one (2), sixth in greens in regulation (76.19%), seventh in driving accuracy (82.19%) and ninth in sand saves (58.62%)

2018 Cambia Portland Classic Winner

2018 finished a career-best 17th on the Official Money List

2019 Solheim Cup team member, 1-1-2 record

2022 Palos Verdes Championship Winner

2024 TOTO Japan Classic runner up