Carly Booth

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Carly Booth
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Booth at Forest of Arden in 2019
Personal information
Born (1992-06-21) 21 June 1992 (age 32)
Comrie, Scotland
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Sporting nationalityFlag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
ResidenceComrie, Scotland
Career
Turned professional2009
Current tour(s) Ladies European Tour
Professional wins4
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour3
Other1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship DNP
Women's PGA C'ship DNP
U.S. Women's Open CUT: 2013, 2017
Women's British Open T71: 2015
Evian Championship CUT: 2021

Carly Booth (born 21 June 1992) is a Scottish professional golfer. At the end of 2009, aged 17, she became the youngest-ever Scot to qualify for the Ladies European Tour. Booth became the youngest ladies' club champion in Britain at the age of 11 at Dunblane New. [1]

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Early life

Upon turning professional, Booth had a golf scholarship to complete at Glenalmond College in Scotland. She started there after returning from America, where a stay at David Leadbetter's Academy in Florida was followed by a spell at a school in Arizona. As a youngster, Booth was able to practice on the course made exclusively for her and her brother, professional golfer Wallace, by her father Wally at the family farm near Comrie. Wally was a Commonwealth Games silver medallist wrestling champion.[ citation needed ]

Amateur career

Booth enjoyed an amateur career richly laced with records and accolades, being described as a Scottish golfing prodigy. [2] Aged 12, she played with Sandy Lyle in the British Masters Pro-Am [3] and at 14 she appeared in her first professional event, the Ladies Scottish Open, and finished 13th. She was rated the No. 1 junior in Europe after winning the European Junior Masters in 2007, the same year she lifted the Scottish Under-18 and Under-21 titles. In 2008, she became the youngest player to represent Great Britain & Ireland in the 76-year history of the Curtis Cup, facing the Americans in the 35th staging of that match at St Andrews. She also played at the Junior Ryder Cup in 2006 and 2008 and won the Daily Telegraph Finals in 2007 and 2008. [4] In 2010, she finished 14th at LET Final Stage Qualifying School for 2010.

Professional career

Booth made her professional debut on the Ladies European Tour at the 2011 Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco. She won her first event in May 2012 at the Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open. [5] She won her second event in June at the Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open. [6] Booth did not achieve her third win on the Ladies European tour until August 2019, when she won the Tipsports Czech Ladies Open. [7]

Other activities

She appeared nude in the 2013 ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue". [8]

Amateur wins

Professional wins (4)

Ladies European Tour (3)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runners-upWinner's
share ()
15 May 2012 Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open 70-71-71=212–41 stroke Flag of Australia (converted).svg Frances Bondad
Flag of England.svg Florentyna Parker
32,706
217 Jun 2012 Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open 70-71-67-68=276–12Playoff Flag of Germany.svg Caroline Masson
Flag of Germany.svg Anja Monke
78,750
325 Aug 2019 Tipsports Czech Ladies Open^68-69-70=207–91 stroke Flag of England.svg Hayley Davis
Flag of France.svg Anais Meyssonnier
Flag of Finland.svg Sanna Nuutinen
Flag of England.svg Charlotte Thompson
19,200

LET Access Series wins (2)

^ Dual-ranked by the Ladies European Tour and LET Access Series

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

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References

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  2. McDonald, Stuart (25 May 2008). "Carly Booth tipped for golf superstardom". The Sunday Times . UK. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  3. "No multi-million deals yet, but Carly Booth is destined for the top". The Herald. Glasgow. 6 June 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
  4. "Carly Booth Signs with IMG". 19 August 2010. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  5. "Carly Booth wins Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open on home soil". 5 May 2012. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  6. "Scotland's Carly Booth wins second Ladies European Tour title in three-way play-off at Swiss Open". The Telegraph. 17 June 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  7. "Czech Ladies Open: Scotland's Carly Booth secures one-shot victory". BBC Sport. 25 August 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  8. "Bodies We Want – Carly Booth". ESPN The Magazine. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  9. "European Girls' Team Championship – European Golf Association" . Retrieved 18 December 2017.