Lucie André (born 17 January 1988) is a French professional

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er who has played on the Ladies European Tour (LET). She was the No. 1 ranked amateur in Europe 2009 after winning the

Spanish Ladies Amateur The Spanish International Ladies Amateur Championship (Copa S.M. la Reina) is an annual amateur golf tournament in Spain for women. It is an "A" rated tournament in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and a qualifying event for the European teams in ...

and the

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. She won the 2017 Czech Ladies Challenge.

Early life and amateur career

André started to play golf aged 11, introduced by her parents, at Mionnay Golf Club in

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. She had a successful amateur career and was the leading ladies amateur golfer on the 2009 EGA Women's Amateur Rankings. She was runner-up behind

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at the 2008

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. In 2009, she won the

and was runner-up at the

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. In 2010, she won the German Ladies Amateur. André won the

with the European team in 2009. She played in the

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and 2010. In 2010, she finished tied for third together with Alexandra Bonetti and

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. She was the leading amateur on the

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, and was low amateur after a tie for 16th at the 2010 Open de France Feminin.

Professional career

André turned professional in January 2011 after finishing T5 at the LET Final Qualifying School, and joined the Ladies European Tour. She finished T4 at the 2011

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, two strokes behind

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. In 2015, she was T4 at the

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, T7 at the

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and T8 at the

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. She qualified for the 2015 Women's British Open as one of the top 25 on the

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not otherwise exempt, but did not make the cut. In March 2016, a T16 at the

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propelled her into the top 300 in the

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. In 2017, she was relegated to the

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, where she played the next five seasons. She won the 2017 Czech Ladies Challenge following a playoff.

Amateur wins

*2009 Spanish International Ladies Amateur Championship *2010 German International Ladies Amateur Championship

Professional wins (2)

LET Access Series wins (2)

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing France):

, 2010 *

(representing the Continent of Europe): 2009 (winners) *

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 France): 2009, 2010

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Andre, Lucie French female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Bourg-en-Bresse 1988 births Living people 21st-century French women