Lily May Humphreys (born 14 March 2002) is an English professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She won the 2017 Girls Amateur Championship and the 2023

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Amateur career

Humphreys had a successful amateur career. She won the Fairhaven Trophy in 2016 and the Girls Amateur Championship,

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, and the Junior Orange Bowl International in 2017. In 2018 she won the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship and in 2019 she won the Irish Women's Open Stroke Play Championship and the

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back to back. The following year she was runner-up in the English Women's Amateur Championship and finished third in the English Women's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship. Humphreys was a member of the 2018 Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup Team and she represented Europe in the 2019

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. She representing Great Britain & Ireland at the 2017

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and 2019

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, and played in the

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. She made her major debut at the 2020 U.S. Women's Open thanks to being number 17 in the Women's

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Professional career

Humphreys turned professional at the start of June 2021, at 19 years old, having had to postpone it a year due to the

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as the LPGA and LET Q-schools were cancelled. After two starts on the Ladies European Tour she sealed her maiden professional win in just her third professional start and first on the

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, securing a six-shot victory at the Golf Flanders LETAS Trophy. She continued to win the 2021 LETAS Order of Merit, securing a Ladies European Tour card for

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. In August 2021, Humphreys played four weeks in a row on the

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in Sweden as part of the LETAS' Nordic Swing, finishing second in the last three of the events, which earned her the 2021 season Order of Merit win. In March 2023, Humphreys began the final day six shots behind overnight leader Moa Folke at the

, but fired a final round of 67 (–6) to secure a two-shot victory and her maiden LET title.

Amateur wins

*2016 Fairhaven Trophy *2017 Girls Amateur Championship, The Comboy Leveret, Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters,

, Junior Orange Bowl International,

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(individual champion) *2018 Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship *2019

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, Irish Women's Open Stroke Play Championship,

Source:

Professional wins (2)

Ladies European Tour wins (1)

^Co-sanctioned by the

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LET Access Series wins (1)

Team appearances

Amateur *

: (representing England): 2017 *

: (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2017 *

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(representing Great Britain & Ireland):

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* Summer Youth Olympics (representing Great Britain):

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 be ...

(representing England): 2016, 2017 *

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):

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: (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2019 *

(representing Europe): 2019 *

Astor Trophy The Astor Trophy is a women's team golf tournament between teams of amateurs golfers from Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. It has been played every four years since 1959. From its foundation until 2007 i ...

(representing Great Britain and Ireland): 2019 Source:

References

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