Carly Booth (born 21 June 1992) is a Scottish

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. At the end of 2009, aged 17, she became the youngest-ever Scot to qualify for the

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. Booth became the youngest ladies' club champion in Britain at the age of 11 at Dunblane New.

Early life

Upon turning professional, Booth had a golf scholarship to complete at

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in Scotland. She started there after returning from America, where a stay at David Leadbetter's Academy in Florida was followed by a spell at a school in

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. As a youngster, Booth was able to practice on the course made exclusively for her and her brother, professional golfer Wallace, by her father Wally at the family farm near Comrie. Wally was a

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silver medallist wrestling champion.

Amateur career

Booth enjoyed an amateur career richly laced with records and accolades, being described as a Scottish golfing prodigy. Aged 12, she played with

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in the British Masters Pro-Am and at 14 she appeared in her first professional event, the Ladies Scottish Open, and finished 13th. She was rated the No. 1 junior in Europe after winning the European Junior Masters in 2007, the same year she lifted the Scottish Under-18 and Under-21 titles. In 2008, she became the youngest player to represent Great Britain & Ireland in the 76-year history of the

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, facing the Americans in the 35th staging of that match at

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. She also played at the

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in 2006 and 2008 and won the Daily Telegraph Finals in 2007 and 2008. In 2010, she finished 14th at LET Final Stage Qualifying School for 2010.

Professional career

Booth made her professional debut on the

at the

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in Morocco. She won her first event in May 2012 at the

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. She won her second event in June at the

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. Booth did not achieve her third win on the Ladies European tour until August 2019, when she won the Tipsports Czech Ladies Open.

Other activities

She appeared nude in the 2013 ''

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s "Body Issue". Booth is supporting

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, mental health activist, with their

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, to make dialectical behaviour therapy more widely available on the NHS. DBT aims to identify and change negative thought patterns, it pushes for a more positive behavioural change, its used for people with a range of

, including people with self destructive behaviours.

Amateur wins

*Ladies Home International: 2007 & 2009 *Scottish Girls U18: 2007 & 2008 *Scottish Girls U21: 2007 *Daily Telegraph Finals: 2007 & 2008 *European Young Master: 2007

Professional wins (4)

Ladies European Tour (3)

LET Access Series wins (2)

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Dinard Ladies Open *

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Tipsports Czech Ladies Open^ ^ Dual-ranked by the

and

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Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Europe): 2006 (tie, Cup retained), 2008 *

(representing Great Britain & Ireland):

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(representing Scotland):

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Professional * The Queens (representing Europe): 2017

References

External links

Official Website

Carly Booth
on

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