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Kouskova, who won her first professional event at the AMUNDI Czech Ladies Challenge 2021 while still an amateur, picked up a golf club at an early age thanks to her father and has never looked back since. .

“I was around five or six years old and it was my father who introduced me to the game”, she said. “My first memory of golf goes back to the fall of 2005, when I managed to win my first small tournament on a chip & putt course. It was an amazing moment, seeing my parents happy was so special."

“I have a lot of amazing memories as an amateur. I've been to the European Team Championships, British Amateur, Augusta National Women's Amateur and team events with the Texas Longhorns, it's been an amazing journey and I'm truly grateful."

"I can't remember the exact moment I started to dedicate myself fully to golf, but I do remember that I had the will and the dedication quite early on."

"It's always been my dream to go pro, to try to be the best in the world and a good representative of the discipline, to have a positive impact, so I continue to work towards that goal."

The Czech player participated in the LET Q-School in December 2021 and performed extremely well finishing in sixth place while remaining an amateur.

Despite gaining status on the LET, Kouskova decided not to join and instead finish her studies in Texas and complete her final NCAA season, but it's a decision not taken lightly. .

After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2022, she immediately turned professional and began her first full season on the LETAS.

She explains : “The decision to turn pro came very naturally, so after I finished my degree in Texas, I turned pro.”

“It had been planned for at least a year and a half that this would probably be the case and it seemed like the right time to me afterwards.”

“There were serious temptations to turn pro earlier, especially after getting my LET card at Q-School 2021, but I was a semester away from finishing school, so I decided to finish the school and the season with the team there first.”

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The young woman, then aged 22, got off to a good start on the LETAS by finishing second in the AMUNDI Czech Ladies Challenge, a tournament she had won a year earlier.

A top 10 finish at the Trust Golf Links in Musselburgh GC gave the Czech star the chance to find her footing and she picked up her second LETAS title a week later at the Santander Golf Tour in Malaga.

But it was later in the summer that Kouskova really pushed, finishing fourth at the Gothenburg Open before winning the Elite Hotels Open at Jonkoping Golfklubb.

The 23-year-old picked up another victory at the ASGI Lavaux Ladies Open before ending the year with a T3 at the Rose Ladies Open and a T2 at the Santander Golf Tour Burgos.

She added : “This year on the LETAS, I think I learned a lot about the new role of being a professional golfer, traveling with the Tour and the responsibilities that come with it. I had a lot of fun doing it with so many great people around me!”