Role
Former athlete, golf champion; FIG Instructor and PGAI Master professional, Head Pro of the Ugolino Golf Club in Florence
Bio
- Federica Dassù joined the national amateur team in 1970, winning seven Italian titles. In 1983, she became a professional, becoming the first woman in Italy to compete professionally in golf . Over the course of her twenty-year career, she competed regularly on the Ladies European Tour, an international circuit where she achieved six overall victories. Her career on the tour represented a benchmark for Italian women's sport and for the development of the national professional movement. Since 1993, she has collaborated with the Italian Golf Federation, assuming the technical direction of the national amateur women's team until 2004 and of the national professional team from 2004 to 2008. She was a member of the federation's technical staff from 2012 to 2016, the year in which she was inducted into the Italian PGA Hall of Fame. Since 2008, she has been head coach at the Circolo Golf dell'Ugolino in Impruneta. For his work he received the Bronze Medal for Sporting Merit, the Sower of Gold award for youth sectors and the Menarini International Fair Play Award.
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