Jana Melichová (born 22 October 1997) is a Czech professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. She won the 2022 Tipsport Czech Ladies Open and 2024 Dutch Ladies Open.
Melichová was born in Prague and became a member of the Czech National Team in 2013, representing her country in six consecutive European Ladies' Team Championships between 2016 and 2021.
In 2014, she won the Czech Amateur Tour Final and in 2018 she won both the Czech National Match Play Championship and the Czech International Amateur Championship.
Melichová enrolled at Old Dominion University (ODU) in 2018 and joined the Old Dominion Lady Monarchs golf team. She graduated in May 2022 with a degree in International Business. During her collegiate career at ODU, Melichová made an immediate impact by breaking school program and personal records in her very first tournament. She was awarded Freshman of the Year in 2019.
Melichová achieved one individual tournament victory and secured top-three finishes on eight occasions. She consistently held the first position on the ODU womenâÂÂs golf team, contributing to the best team results in the program's history. As a senior, she qualified as an individual for the NCAA Regional Championship and advanced to the NCAA Championship.
At the NCAA Championship, Melichová achieved a 13th-place finish and earned All-American honors.
In June 2022, Melichová achieved a significant milestone by winning the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open, becoming the second Czech golfer to win on the Ladies European Tour (LET), following Klára Davidson Spilková's victory in 2017. Her victory was historic as she secured it while still an amateur, earning her full LET membership.
In 2023, she was runner-up in the team event at the Aramco Team Series â Hong Kong teamed with Trichat Cheenglab and Christine Wolf.
MelichováâÂÂs second LET victory came at the 2024 Dutch Ladies Open. Melichová came from six shots behind leader Kim Métraux ahead of the final round to win by a stroke. She dedicated the victory to her mother, who died in 2022, and would have celebrated her 60th birthday on the first day of the tournament. The triumph earned her full playing status on the LET for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
In the history of Czech women's golf, only three players have won on the LET: Spilková, Kristýna Napoleaová, and Melichová. Notably, Melichová and Spilková are the only two Czech players to have secured two victories each. While Spilková won in 2017 and 2022, MelichováâÂÂs victories came in 2022 and 2024.
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