Céline Boutier (aged 21) - 2014: Céline wins the European Team Championship, plays 2 majors, finishes the year n ° 1 amateur world and wins the British Open amateur in 2015. - Photo credit: © Alexis Orloff

In front of a confirmed LPGA Tour player

For a first attempt, it's a masterstroke. Freshly graduated from Duke University, after four years spent studying in North Carolina, Céline Boutier had planned to turn professional at the end of summer 2016. It was at the Fort Rucker Ladies Open, on the occasion of a tournament of the National Women's Golf Association played from September 13 to 15 at the Silver Wings Golf Course, in Alabama, that the young player of the Paris Country Club released her new status. Result: victory from the start! With three cards of 71, 70 and 69, Celine signed a total of 270 (-6). And she suddenly won against Sandra Changkija, a player who plays on the LPGA Tour. In this test of the NWGA (the third American division), the Frenchwoman and the American appeared clearly above the general level since the rest of the "peloton" was six, ten or even fifteen strokes behind!

Céline Boutier, ex world n ° 1 amateur, presents her precious medal obtained during her victory at the British Open Amateur 2015 - Photo: © TPlassais / Swing Féminin

Fifteen months after his title of the British Amateur 2015

Céline Boutier, 10, on November 000, started her professional career with a check for $ 23. Almost by chance: “I was looking for tournaments to play and I had nothing planned that week… For Sandra Changkija, I just knew she was a good player. Not at all that she had already played on the LPGA Tour for five years.  I had no idea. " Based in Dallas, Céline therefore pursues among professionals what we have already seen her do among amateurs. Extraordinary winner of the British Ladies Amateur, in 2015 in Portstewart (Northern Ireland), the native of Montrouge, in the Paris region, had already been individual European champion in 2012 and several times team gold medalist with the team of France Girls then the France Dames team.

NCAA exploits, seven Majors already contested

In 2014, it was also within the framework of the NCAA, the American university championship, highly rated in terms of golf, that the girl distinguished herself: winner of three individual tournaments, she contributed to the victory of her Duke team in the First Division and will be voted best player of the year! Invited to play the Evian Championship in September 2014, when she just returned from the Amateur Worlds in Japan and is jet lagged, she managed to cut the cut and finish 29th, a real feat. Thanks to her exceptional results among amateurs (winner of the British Ladies and also, a time, world number 1), she managed to play a total of seven Majors as an amateur between 2013 and 2015. After this first victory at Fort Rucker , we will meet Céline from October 6 to 9 at Chantaco for her first Lacoste Ladies Open in France as a professional. Where she will be one of the big favorites!