Gemma Clews (born 1 October 1994) is an English

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and

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player.

Early life and amateur career

Clews was born in

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

and started playing golf at the age of 11 at

Ashton-on-Mersey School Ashton-on-Mersey School is a secondary school in Ashton upon Mersey, Greater Manchester, England. The school is an academy, part of The Dean Trust which includes Broadoak School and Lord Derby Academy in Huyton. Ashton-on-Mersey School serves ...

and then joined Delamere Forest Golf Club in 2010. Clews competed on international level for England, playing in four home internationals and winning three of them. She played in the

2016 Espirito Santo Trophy The 2016 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 14–17 September at Mayakoba El Camaleon Golf Club and Iberostar Playa Paraiso Golf Club in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. It was the 27th women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the ...

in Mexico, and at the

2017 European Ladies' Team Championship The 2017 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 11–15 July at Montado Golf Resort in Palmela, Portugal. It was the 34th women's golf amateur European Ladies' Team Championship. Venue The hosting course, located in the Lisboa Region an ...

where she contributed two points as England beat Italy 4.5–1.5 in the final. She also represented Great Britain & Ireland in the 2015 and 2017 Vagliano Trophy against the Continent of Europe. In 2017, she was runner-up at the

Irish Women's Amateur Open Championship The Irish Women's Amateur Open Championship is the women's national amateur stroke play golf championship of Ireland. It was first played in 1993 and is currently organised by Golf Ireland The Golfing Union of Ireland (GUI) (Irish language, I ...

and won the Welsh Women's Open Stroke Play Championship at Kirby Muxloe by five strokes.

Professional career

Clews turned professional in 2017 and joined the

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in 2018, sharing her time between LETAS and the

in 2019. She won her maiden professional title in the 2021

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. Clews was runner-up at the 2021

Lavaux Ladies Open The Lavaux Ladies Open is a women's professional golf tournament in the LET Access Series, held since 2018 in Lavaux, the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Played at Lavaux Golf Club located a few miles from Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Montreux, ...

in Switzerland after losing a playoff to Gabriele Macdonald. In 2023, she was runner-up at the

Czech Ladies Challenge The Czech Ladies Challenge is a women's professional golf tournament on the LET Access Series, held in the Czech Republic. The event was first played in 2014 at Golf Park Plzeň-Dýšina in the city of Plzeň, 90 km west of Prague, also host to t ...

, before winning the

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in a playoff.

Amateur wins

*2010 Cheshire Girls Championship *2017 Welsh Ladies Open Stroke Play Championship Source:

Professional wins (2)

LET Access Series wins (1)

LET Access Series playoff record (1–1)

Other wins (1)

*2021

at Hillside

Team appearances

Amateur * Women's Home Internationals: (representing England): 2014 (winners), 2015 (winners), 2016 (winners), 2017 * Vagliano Trophy: (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2015, 2017 *

Espirito Santo Trophy The Espirito Santo Trophy (World Women's Amateur Team Championships) is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964. It was instituted by the Fren ...

: (representing England):

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

European Ladies' Team Championship The European Ladies' Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for women organised by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1959. It was played in odd-numbered years from 1959 to 2007 and has been pla ...

(representing England):

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

(winners) Source:

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Clews, Gemma English female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Golfers from Manchester 1994 births Living people