By Matt Smith
It was a day to celebrate for the Ladies European Tour as CEO Alexandra Armas and Chair Marta Figueras-Dotti were both named among the ‘Top Women in Sports’ by the Women’s Sports Institute this week.

Armas and Figueras-Dotti were named in the list of the top 100 personalities of women’s sports at an event in Madrid as part of an initiative to raise awareness of females in the sports industry.

Laura Mugica, co-founder of the Women’s Sports Institute, said 100 women represented “have overcome obstacles, displayed creativity, courage and ambition”.

Armas played on the LET for four years before taking over Executive Director  in 2008 and then CEO in 2019 and has helped grow the Tour from 19 events with prizemoney of €11.5 million in 2019 to 34 events with more than €30 million in 2022.

Marta Figueras-Dotti. LET

Figueras-Dotti won the Ladies British Open as an amateur in 1982, turning professional in October the same year, before becoming the first Spanish woman to compete on the LPGA, which she combined with playing on the LET until 2001.

The LET Chair is also President of the WPGA in Spain and the Founder and Director of Golf Coaching Academy.

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