The French Céline Boutier, who lives in Dallas, won yesterday in a round-robin tournament, the Energy Producers Texas Women's Open in front of Texan Cheyenne Knight. This warm-up tournament, which does not belong to the LPGA circuit, marked the resumption of women's tournaments in the United States.

Céline Boutier wins the Texas Women's Open

Céline Boutier - © Northern Texas PGA via flickr

Celine Boutier, starts strong at Old American Golf Club in The Colony, Texas. winning Texas' first repeat tournament, the Energy Producers Texas Women's Open. The Ile-de-France de Montrouge won brilliantly with a total score of -14, five strokes ahead of the American Cheyenne Knight.

She climbed to the top of a very high ranking thanks to a magnificent 64 in the second round 7 (-7) making a blank card of any bogey

Knight, who won the Volunteers of America Classic here last fall at the end of his rookie season, despite being 67 on the last round equalizing with Céline Boutier it was not enough for the Texan who finished three shots behind (-11).

In 2019, Céline Boutier won the ISPS Handa Vic Open in Australia her first LPGA victory after three years on the Tour. She placed T-5 at the last US Women's Open and won 4-0-0 for the European team in the Solheim Cup last fall.

Kristen Gillman, from Austin was far behind, in third position (-5), while Yu Liu, Céline Boutier's former teammate at Duke (both were members of the Blue Devils team that won the title NCAA in 2014), finished 4th at - 4.

In all, six LPGA players finished in the top 10. Among them, Lindsey Weaver was fifth at 2 under par and Brittany Lang, the 2016 US Women's Open champion, was tied for seventh at 1. under the by.

Sadie Englemann, an Austin resident who pledged to play for Stanford, achieved the amateur score with the lowest score sharing seventh place.

Kenzie Wright, a senior from Alabama who was on the Crimson Tide roster with Gillman, placed 10th in solo with par.

LPGA players Stacy Lewis and Gerina Piller, both Solheim Cup veterans, were among the five players who finished in 11th place.

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