Lauren Coughlin | |
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Personal information | |
Full name | Lauren Elizabeth Coughlin |
Born | Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. | September 27, 1992
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
Sporting nationality | United States |
Residence | Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
Career | |
College | University of Virginia |
Turned professional | 2016 |
Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2018) |
Former tour(s) | Symetra Tour (joined 2017) |
Professional wins | 3 |
Number of wins by tour | |
LPGA Tour | 2 |
Ladies European Tour | 1 |
Epson Tour | 1 |
Best results in LPGA major championships | |
Chevron Championship | T3: 2024 |
Women's PGA C'ship | T15: 2023 |
U.S. Women's Open | CUT: 2024 |
Women's British Open | CUT: 2022, 2023, 2024 |
Evian Championship | 4th: 2024 |
Lauren Elizabeth Coughlin (born September 27, 1992) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. In 2024, she won the Canadian Women's Open and the Women's Scottish Open. [1]
Coughlin was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Chesapeake, Virginia. She started playing golf at the age of seven, and was named the Chesapeake Scholar Athlete in 2008, 2009 and 2010. She became the first female to play four years on the Hickory High School boys team, and finished runner-up in the Girls Championship of the Virginia State Golf Association in 2009 and 2010. [2]
She won the Virginia Women's Amateur back-to-back in 2012 and 2013. In 2014, she won the Virginia Women's Stroke Play Championship. [3]
Coughlin attended the University of Virginia between 2011 and 2016, where she was named All-American and was 2016 ACC individual champion. [3] After winning the ACC Championship, she moved to 31st in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. [4]
Coughlin turned professional in 2016 and started playing on the Symetra Tour, where she won the 2018 PHC Classic in Wisconsin. The win earned her a start in her first major, the 2018 Evian Championship. She joined the LPGA Tour in 2018 after securing her card by finishing in a tie for seventh at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament. [1]
In 2022, Coughlin made 13 cuts in 23 starts with a season-best result a tie for sixth at the LPGA Mediheal Championship. In 2023, she made 15 cuts in 23 starts with her best finish a tie for sixth at the CPKC Women's Open in Canada. [1]
In March 2024, Coughlin revealed that her husband John Pond, a former University of Virginia football player, had quit his job to begin an apprenticeship caddying for her full time. A few weeks later she led the 2024 Chevron Championship by two strokes ahead of Nelly Korda after the first round, ultimately finishing in a tie for 3rd, trailing only Korda and Maja Stark. [5] [6] In July 2024, Coughlin won the 2024 CPKC Women's Open, the first LPGA Tour title for her. [7] In August 2024, she won the 2024 ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open, to claim her second victory. [8]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | Jul 28, 2024 | CPKC Women's Open | 275 | −13 | 2 strokes | Mao Saigo |
2 | Aug 18, 2024 | ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open^ | 273 | −15 | 4 strokes | Esther Henseleit |
^Co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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1 | Aug 12, 2018 | PHC Classic | 200 | −16 | 1 stroke | Dottie Ardina |
Results not in chronological order.
Tournament | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Chevron Championship | CUT | T3 | |||||
U.S. Women's Open | CUT | ||||||
Women's PGA Championship | CUT | T16 | T15 | T24 | |||
The Evian Championship | CUT | NT | CUT | CUT | 4 | ||
Women's British Open | CUT | CUT | CUT |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied
Year | Tournaments played | Cuts made* | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top 10s | Best finish | Earnings ($) | Money list rank | Scoring average | Scoring rank |
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2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | CUT | n/a | n/a | 74.50 | n/a |
2018 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T50 | 12,625 | 154 | 73.81 | 154 |
2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | CUT | 0 | n/a | 74.50 | n/a |
2020 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T34 | 11,213 | 149 | 72.23 | n/a |
2021 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | T16 | 116,113 | 106 | 70.63 | 30 |
2022 | 23 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | T8 | 299,990 | 76 | 71.51 | 81 |
2023 | 23 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | T6 | 427,256 | 69 | 71.21 | 55 |
2024 | 19 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1,876,282 | 5 | 70.86 | 23 |
Totals^ | 103 (2018) | 57 (2018) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 2,743,479 | 178 |
^ Official as of August 19, 2024 [10] [11] [12]
*Includes matchplay and other tournaments without a cut.
Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.
Year | World ranking | Source |
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2017 | 889 | [13] |
2018 | 452 | [14] |
2019 | 431 | [15] |
2020 | 409 | [16] |
2021 | 270 | [17] |
2022 | 166 | [18] |
2023 | 109 | [19] |
2024 | 14^ | [20] |
^ As of August 19, 2024
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