Fiona Mary Haddon Brown (later Champness, born 13 February 1974) was an English amateur golfer. She won the 1994

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and the 1999 English Women's Amateur Championship. She played in the Curtis Cup in 1998 and 2000.

Golf career

Brown won the English girls championship at Coventry in 1992, beating Lorna Nicholson 2&1 in the final. She played for England in the Girls Home Internationals in 1991 and 1992. In 1994 Brown, aged 20, won the

at Ferndown, four strokes ahead of Kate Egford and Simone Morgan. In 1995 she won the Welsh Women's Open Stroke Play Championship at Newport, beating

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in a playoff. She was a runner-up in the event the following year, 1996, a stroke behind Emma Duggleby. In 1997 she was runner-up in the

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, losing in a playoff to

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. Playing with

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, Brown won the 1998 Women's International Four Ball at the Orangebrook Golf and Country Club in Florida. She also won the 1998 Spanish Amateur Championship, beating Martina Eber in the final. She reached the semi-finals of the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship, losing to

. Brown was selected for the Curtis Cup match in Minneapolis in August. 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. Brown won the English Women's Amateur Championship at Ganton in May 1999, beating Kerry Smith 2&1 in the final. The following month she again reached the semi-finals of the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship, losing this time to Rebecca Hudson. Later in the year she played for Great Britain & Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy, and for Great Britain in the

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in Canada. Brown make her second Curtis Cup appearance in

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at Ganton. 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. In 2001 Brown won the

by two strokes from Rebecca Hudson. She also played for Great Britain & Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy match in Italy.

Team appearances

* Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1998,

* Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1999, 2001 *

(representing Great Britain): 1999 * European Ladies' Team Championship (representing England):

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* Women's Home Internationals (representing England): 1994 (winners), 1996 (winners), 1997 (winners), 1998 (winners), 1999, 2000 (winners), 2001 (winners) * Girls Home Internationals (representing England): 1991 (winners), 1992

References

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