Connie Chen

Last updated • 1 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Connie Chen
Connie Chen.JPG
Personal information
Born (1992-10-26) 26 October 1992 (age 28)
Pretoria, South Africa
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
NationalityFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Career
CollegeUniversity of Birmingham
Turned professional2010
Current tour(s) Ladies European Tour
China LPGA Tour
Professional wins1
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour1
Achievements and awards
WGSA Amateur
Player of the Year
2010

Connie Chen (born 26 October 1992) is a South African professional golfer who has played on the Ladies European Tour. [1] [2] She won the 2014 Open De España Femenino, which was her first title on the tour. [3]

Contents

Career

Chen started playing golf at the age of ten, and first represented South Africa aged 15 at the 2008 Junior Open Championship. [4] She continued her junior international career by playing for South Africa at the Annika Invitational and The British Girls Championship in 2009 and 2010, and then The Duke of York Invitational in 2010. She won over 10 events in 2010 and was the youngest member of South Africa's World Amateur Team, helping the team to a bronze medal. Based on her achievements, she was awarded the 2010 Compleat Golfer South African Woman Golfer of the Year award by the Women's Golf South African Association (WGSA). [5] After her 18th birthday, she turned professional and qualified for the 2011 Ladies European Tour season. [6] Chen made a hole in one at the 2013 Omega Dubai Ladies Masters and walked away with a Mercedes Benz Convertible. The following year she had her maiden win on the Ladies European Tour when she won the Open de España Femenino in Tenerife, Spain. At the end of 2014, Chen started her PGA studies and became a full member of the PGA UK&I in early 2018. In 2020 Chen was featured as one of Golf Digest's Top 75 Best International Teachers. [7] She has been playing on the Chinese LPGA tour over the past several seasons while also coaching around the world.

Ladies European Tour wins

Team appearances

Amateur

Awards and other recognition

Related Research Articles

Charl Schwartzel

Charl Adriaan Schwartzel is a South African professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, European Tour, and the Sunshine Tour. He has won one major title, the Masters in 2011. Schwartzel's highest world ranking has been number six, after finishing in a tie for fourth at the WGC-Cadillac Championship in 2012.

Karine Icher French professional golfer

Karine Icher is a French professional golfer who plays mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour.

Lynnette Teresa Brooky is a New Zealand professional golfer. She turned professional in 1994 and has spent her career playing mainly on the Ladies European Tour (LET). She has won four LET tournaments including back to back French Opens, one Telia Tour event in Sweden and a further four in Australia. Her best finish on the LET Order of Merit through 2005 was fifth in 2003. She represented New Zealand in the 2005 and 2007 Women's World Cup of Golf. With career earnings now approaching €1 million, she has placed in the top-20 seven times on the LET Order of Merit and has also amassed a further 56 top-10 finishes worldwide.

Stéphanie Arricau French professional golfer

Stéphanie Arricau is a French professional golfer. She studied marketing and management and had a long amateur career as a junior and an adult before turning professional at the age of 26. She has played on the Ladies European Tour since 2000, winning the Unión Fenosa Open de España Femenino and the Arras Open de France Dames in 2004 and the KLM Ladies Dutch Open and the Estoril Ladies Open of Portugal in 2006. She was a member of the U.S.-based LPGA Tour in 2005, but failed to retain her card. She represented France in the 2005 and 2007 Women's World Cup of Golf.

Becky Brewerton

Rebecca Dawn Brewerton is a Welsh professional golfer and a member of the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour.

Pia Nilsson is a Swedish professional golfer and coach. She was one of the two players, who were the first female Swedes to play collegiate golf at a University in the United States and the first Swede to captain a European Solheim Cup team.

Lexi Thompson American professional golfer

Alexis Noel "Lexi" Thompson is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. At age 12, she was the youngest golfer ever to qualify to play in the U.S. Women's Open. She turned professional in June 2010 at age 15. On September 18, 2011, Thompson set a then new record as the youngest-ever winner of an LPGA tournament, at age 16 years, seven months, and eight days, when she won the Navistar LPGA Classic. Three months later she became the second-youngest winner of a Ladies European Tour event, capturing the Dubai Ladies Masters by four strokes on December 17, 2011. She won her first major championship at the 2014 Kraft Nabisco Championship at the age of 19 years, 1 month and 27 days, making her the second youngest LPGA golfer to win a major.

Mikaela Parmlid Swedish professional golfer

Mikaela Parmlid is a professional golfer born in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Lee-Anne Pace South African professional golfer

Lee-Anne Pace is a South African professional golfer.

Charley Hull English professional golfer

Charley Esmee Hull is an English professional golfer who has achieved success both on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour, winning honours as Rookie of the Year, becoming the youngest competitor to participate in the international Solheim Cup matches and becoming a champion on the European circuit in 2014 before the age of 18. In 2016, she won the prestigious CME Group Tour Championship, the season-ending event of the LPGA Tour.

Carlota Ciganda Spanish professional golfer

Carlota Ciganda Machiñena is a professional golfer from Spain who plays on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. She won the LET's Order of Merit in her debut season in 2012, and was also named Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year.

Stacey Keating Australian golfer

Stacey Keating is an Australian golfer who won the 2012 Open de France Dames and 2012 Open De España Femenino.

Amelia Lewis

Amelia Lyn Lewis is an American professional golfer. In December 2010 at age 19, Lewis became the first Jacksonville, Florida, native to be fully exempt on the LPGA Tour since Colleen Walker in 1982, some 28 years earlier. In the following year Lewis became the first Jacksonville native to ever hold tour cards on both the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour.

Céline Boutier French professional golfer

Céline Boutier is a French professional golfer.

Anne van Dam Dutch golfer

Anne van Dam is a Dutch professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour.

Frida Kinhult is a Swedish professional golfer. She rose to world number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in June 2019 and won the 2020 Symetra Tour Championship to graduate to the LPGA Tour.

Emma Nilsson is a Swedish professional golfer.

Emma Cabrera-Bello Spanish female golfer

Emma Cabrera-Bello is a Spanish professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour and was runner-up at the Open de España Femenino.

Linn Maria Grant is a Swedish amateur golfer. She won the 2017 Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship and was in contention at the 2018 U.S. Women's Open.

Monique Smit is a South African professional golfer playing on the Ladies European Tour (LET). She was runner-up at the 2020 South African Women's Open and won the 2020 Sunshine Ladies Tour Order of Merit.

References

  1. "Connie Chen". CBSSports.com. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  2. "Golf Live 24: Connie Chen (South Africa)". www.golflive24.com. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  3. "Connie Chen excited as she bids to defend title". Ladies European Tour. 21 September 2016. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  4. "Thailand's Moriya wins Junior Open". Golf Monthly. 17 July 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  5. "Connie Chen is Compleat Golfer's 2010 Top Women's Amateur". www.wgsa.co.za. Archived from the original on 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  6. "Connie Chen tees up PGA Qualification". Ladies European Tour. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  7. "Connie Chen Golf Digest 75 Best International teachers". golfdigest.com. Retrieved 2020-02-29.