Fiona Brown (golfer)

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Fiona Brown
Personal information
Full nameFiona Mary Haddon Brown
Born (1974-02-13) 13 February 1974 (age 50)
Cheshire, England
Sporting nationalityFlag of England.svg  England
Career
StatusAmateur

Fiona Mary Haddon Brown (later Champness, born 13 February 1974) [1] was an English amateur golfer. She won the 1994 English Women's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship and the 1999 English Women's Amateur Championship. She played in the Curtis Cup in 1998 and 2000.

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Golf career

Brown won the English girls championship at Coventry in 1992, beating Lorna Nicholson 2&1 in the final. [2] She played for England in the Girls Home Internationals in 1991 and 1992. [3] [1]

In 1994 Brown, aged 20, won the English Women's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Ferndown, four strokes ahead of Kate Egford and Simone Morgan. [4] In 1995 she won the Welsh Women's Open Stroke Play Championship at Newport, beating Alison Rose in a playoff. [5] She was a runner-up in the event the following year, 1996, a stroke behind Emma Duggleby. [5] In 1997 she was runner-up in the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship, losing in a playoff to Kim Rostron. [6]

Playing with Elaine Ratcliffe, Brown won the 1998 Women's International Four Ball at the Orangebrook Golf and Country Club in Florida. [7] [8] She also won the 1998 Spanish Amateur Championship, beating Martina Eber in the final. [9] She reached the semi-finals of the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship, losing to Kim Rostron. [10] Brown was selected for the Curtis Cup match in Minneapolis in August. [11] The Americans regained the cup by 10 matches to 8. Brown lost her match in the opening day foursomes and was not selected for the singles. She won both her matches on the final day, winning her foursomes match, where she played with Rebecca Hudson, and beating JoJo Robertson in the singles. [12]

Brown won the English Women's Amateur Championship at Ganton in May 1999, beating Kerry Smith 2&1 in the final. [13] The following month she again reached the semi-finals of the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship, losing this time to Rebecca Hudson. [14] Later in the year she played for Great Britain & Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy, and for Great Britain in the Commonwealth Trophy in Canada. [15] [16]

Brown make her second Curtis Cup appearance in 2000 at Ganton. [17] The Americans won the cup by the same score as in 1998, 10 matches to 8. Brown was only selected for one session, the first day singles which she lost narrowly to Robin Weiss. [18] In 2001 Brown won the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship by two strokes from Rebecca Hudson. [19] She also played for Great Britain & Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy match in Italy. [20]

Team appearances

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  3. ↑ "LGU 2016 yearbook". Ladies Golf Union. p. 118. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  4. ↑ Godsiff, Peter (22 July 1994). "Brown breezes in". The Daily Telegraph . p. 32 – via Newspapers.com/.
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  6. ↑ Mair, Lewine (28 April 1997). "Rostron stays calm to take the honours". The Daily Telegraph. p. 38.
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  10. ↑ Mair, Lewine (15 June 1998). "Rostron seals her Curtis Cup place". The Daily Telegraph . p. 37 – via Newspapers.com/.
  11. ↑ Mair, Lewine (16 June 1998). "Hudson in demand for Curtis Cup". The Daily Telegraph. p. 34 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ Mair, Lewine (3 August 1998). "Americans wrap up early victory". The Daily Telegraph. p. 42 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ Meredith, Bill (24 May 1999). "Brown lays down millennium maker". The Daily Telegraph. p. 44 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ Smart, Chris (14 June 1999). "Hudson falls just short". The Daily Telegraph . p. 45 – via Newspapers.com/.
  15. ↑ "Vagliano Trophy 1999" (PDF). European Golf Association . Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  16. ↑ "Astor Trophy" (PDF). Golf Australia. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
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