Pauline Roussin-Bouchard

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Pauline Roussin-Bouchard
Personal information
Born (2000-07-05) 5 July 2000 (age 22)
Montelimar, France
Sporting nationalityFlag of France.svg  France
Residence Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
Career
College University of South Carolina
Turned professional2021
Current tour(s) Ladies European Tour (joined 2021)
LPGA Tour (joined 2021)
Professional wins1
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship T35: 2022
Women's PGA C'ship CUT: 2022
U.S. Women's Open T46: 2020
Women's British Open DNP
Evian Championship T38: 2021

Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (born 5 July 2000) is a French professional golfer. She was number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 34 weeks in 2020. [1]

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Amateur career

Roussin-Bouchard represented the French National Team from age 14 and won the 2015 European Young Masters both individually and with her team. She played in two Espirito Santo Trophies (2016 and 2018) and six European Girls' Team Championship and European Ladies' Team Championships, winning silver in 2018.

She representied Europe at the 2016 Junior Ryder Cup and was on the winning Vagliano Trophy team in 2019. She won the 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup with the international team.

Roussin-Bouchard enrolled at the University of South Carolina in 2019 to play golf with the South Carolina Gamecocks. She had the best season for a freshman in program history and won five times in her first two years. [2]

Roussin-Bouchard won the Spanish International Stroke Play and St Rule Trophy in 2016, and the Grand Prix de Valcros in 2017. In 2018 she was runner-up at the Swiss International Ladies Championship and Grand Prix de ligue PACA Dames, and won the Grand Prix de Valgarde. [1]

In 2019, she won The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship with France. She played in the Ladies European Tour event Jabra Ladies Open and was one stroke clear of the field heading into the final round, [3] finishing runner-up as England's Annabel Dimmock won by one shot. [4] The top two finish qualified her for the 2019 Evian Championship.

Roussin-Bouchard reached number 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in January 2020. [1] She made her U.S. Open debut at the 2020 U.S. Women's Open by virtue of her WAGR rank. She made the cut and finished T46. [5]

Professional career

Roussin-Bouchard turned professional in August 2021 and claimed a victory in just her second event as a professional, the Skaftö Open on the Ladies European Tour, two weeks after she ended life as an amateur, where she shot a second round of 60 (−9). [6]

Roussin-Bouchard earned her card for the 2022 LPGA Tour through qualifying school. [7]

Amateur wins

Professional wins (1)

Ladies European Tour (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runners-up
129 Aug 2021 Didriksons Skaftö Open −11 (68-60-68=196)1 stroke Flag of Sweden.svg Linn Grant
Flag of Argentina.svg Magdalena Simmermacher

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament2019202020212022
Chevron Championship T35
U.S. Women's Open T46CUT
Women's PGA Championship CUT
The Evian Championship CUTNTT3872
Women's British Open
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Player Profile Pauline Roussin-Bouchard". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "Roster: Pauline Roussin-Bouchard". SCU Gamecocks. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  3. ↑ "Pauline Roussin-Bouchard Leads Jabra Ladies Open in France". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "Jabra Ladies Open: Annabel Dimmock wins first European Tour title in France". BBC Sport. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "Player Bio: Pauline Roussin-Bouchard". USGA. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  6. ↑ "Roussin Bouchard Claims Maiden Title In Second Professional Tournament In Skafto". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Na Rin An Secures Medalist Honors At LPGA Q-Series". LPGA. 13 December 2021.
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