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Pratima Sherpa (Nepali: प्रतिमा शेर्पा; born 27 November 1999) is the first ranked amateur female golfer from Nepal. She was born and raised in a maintenance shed behind the third hole of the Royal Nepal Golf Club in Kathmandu. Her parents still live on the grounds of the golf course, where her father Pasang Sherpa works as a security guard and mother Kalpana Sherpa works as a maintenance worker. Forbes magazine included her in the 2020 edition of the '30 under 30' list of Asian personalities in entertainment and sports.