Chloe Williams (born 21 March 1995) is a Welsh

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who plays on the

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Early life and amateur career

Williams, from

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and educated at

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, has a father that is a golf teaching professional and her coach. He introduced her to golf at the age of 2, and from the age of 14 she concentrated on golf. Williams had a successful amateur career and represented Wales at the Women's Home Internationals, the

European Girls' Team Championship The European Girls' Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for women up to 18 organised by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1991. It was played in odd-numbered years from 1991 to 1999 and has bee ...

, the

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, and the

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. She also represented Europe in the

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, and Great Britain & Ireland in the Astor Trophy, the

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and the 2015 Vagliano Trophy, where she won 2 of her 4 matches. Individually, she was runner-up at the 2016

Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship was founded in 1969 by the Ladies' Golf Union (now merged into The R&A) of Great Britain. A stroke play tournament over 72 holes, it was discontinued by the R&A after the 2017 tournament won ...

and at the

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in 2013 and 2015. She finished 3rd at the 2016 Irish Women's Open Strokeplay, tied 3rd at the 2012 Spanish Ladies Amateur, and tied 3rd at the 2014

, four strokes behind winner Meghan MacLaren. She won two medals at the 2013

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, gold for Team GB with

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in the team event, and bronze individually. By 2015, she was the number one amateur in Wales.

Professional career

Williams turned professional in 2016 and joined the

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in 2017. She finished runner-up in her first start, at the Azores Ladies Open, 2 strokes behind Meghan MacLaren. In the

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, she played in 19 tournaments and recorded five top-10 finishes including a season-best third-place finish in the season-ending Road To La Largue Final. She finished sixth on the LET Access Series Order of Merit, claiming the fifth and final full card available for the

(LET) in 2020. In her rookie season on the LET, she made the cut in all eight appearances, and finished 46th on the Race to Costa del Sol. Her season-best finish was T15 at the VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open. In

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, her second LET season, Williams played in 18 LET events and ended the year 34th on the Race to Costa del Sol. She recorded three top-10 finishes in individual events, at the Ladies Italian Open (T4), the Aramco Team Series - London (T8), and at the VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open (T7). She led the Creekhouse Ladies Open in Sweden by two strokes after a first round 66. She made her first

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appearance at the

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at Carnoustie Golf Links thanks to her Race to Costa del Sol rank. In

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, she finished 50th on the Race to Costa del Sol. At the

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she was captured on camera falling backwards off the 6th tee box into an advertising display, as she was lining up her shot. Ending up on her back with her legs and club dangling in the air, she was not hurt and went on to make par, despite her playing partners' hysterical laughter. It was the unexpected highlight of the week and one of the funniest and most memorable moments of the 2022 LET season, according to media outlets.

Team appearances

Amateur * European Young Masters (representing Wales): 2011 *

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2011 * Women's Home Internationals (representing Wales): 2011, 2012, 2013 (winners), 2014, 2015, 2016 *

(representing Wales):

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(representing Wales): 2009, 2010, 2012 *

(representing Wales):

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* Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2015 * Astor Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2015 *

(representing Europe): 2016 Sources:

References

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