Becky Morgan (born 5 September 1974) is a Welsh professional golfer who plays mainly on the U.S.-based

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but is also a member of the Ladies European Tour.

Amateur career

Morgan was born in Abergavenny. She was introduced to the game of golf by her grandfather when she was 12 and had a successful amateur career. She was a member of the Welsh Junior and Under-21 teams and also won the 1991 and 1992 Welsh School Championship titles. She was a member of the Great Britain and Ireland

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team in 1998 and 2000 and a member of the

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team in 1997 and 1999. Morgan was the runner-up in 1996 and a semifinalist in 1997 at the

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. She was runner-up in the 1998 Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship. Morgan was assisted by College Prospects of America to win a golf scholarship at the

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in 1994, and during the next four years won 10 NCAA Division I medalist titles, including three Big South Conference Championships from 1995-1997 resulting in her being named Big South All-American for those three years. She finished 10th in the NCAA Championship in 1997, the year she graduated with a major in Geography. Morgan returned to Wales and continued her amateur career finishing runner-up at the

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in 1998 and 1999 and second at the South Atlantic Amateur Championship in 2000.

Professional career

Morgan turned professional in August 2000. She qualified for the Ladies European Tour by finishing tied for sixth at the LET Qualifying School and earned non-exempt status on the

by finishing T14th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament and thus had rookie seasons on both sides of the Atlantic in 2001. Morgan played in eight events on LET in 2001 without missing a cut, posting four top-10s including narrowly losing the French Open to Norway's Suzann Pettersen at the third playoff hole. She also played 16 events on the LPGA earning her first LPGA top-10 finish with a tie for 7th at the Longs Drugs Challenge. She finished second to

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for Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year honours. In 2002, Morgan competed in four events on the Evian Ladies European Tour, where she posted two top-10 finishes. She also played 18 events on the LPGA with a T7 at the

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being her only top-10 finish. In 2003, she finished second at the ShopRite LPGA Classic, the best LPGA finish of her career and in 23 starts had seven top-10s. She played in six events on the LET with her best finish being a tie for fourth at the HP Open. She narrowly missed out on a captain's pick for the

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. In 2004, Morgan played most of the year on the LPGA. In 24 starts, she amassed three top-10s. She also played in four events on the LET with her best finish being 3rd at the HP Open in Sweden. She also concentrated on the LPGA for 2005 and recorded one top-10 out of 23 events played. Her best performance on the LET was a tie for sixth on home soil at the Wales Ladies Championship. Morgan teamed up with Becky Brewerton to finish 6th in the inaugural

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in 2005. They teamed up again in 2006 when they finished third and 2007 when they finished eighth. Morgan won her first professional tournament at the 2018

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on the Ladies European Tour.

Ladies European Tour wins

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LPGA Tour career summary

* As of the 2022 season

Team appearances

Amateur *

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(representing Wales):

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

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(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1997, 1999 *

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1998,

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* Commonwealth Trophy (representing Great Britain): 1999 Professional *

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(representing Wales): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 * The Queens (representing Europe): 2016

References

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