The flamboyant Céline Boutier won the ISPS Handa Vic Open this Sunday in Melbourne. The former amateur world number 1 is the first Frenchwoman to win the LPGA Tour since Patricia Meunier-Lebouc, in 2003.
LPGA: Céline Boutier offers her first triumph on the ISPS Handa Vic Open!

Céline Boutier, ISPS Handa Vic Open 2019 champion - Photo: DR

Céline Boutier, made a card of 281 (-8), two strokes ahead of Australians Sarah Kemp and Su Oh, and English Charlotte Thomas.
Already titled on the Symetra Tour and the Ladies European Tour, the Parisienne played in the last lap to come to cap a trio led by the Australian Sarah Kemp, author of the performance of the day with her card of 65.

This is only the fourth French victory on the US circuit after the pioneer Catherine Lacoste (in 1967), imitated by Anne-Marie Palli (1983 and 1992) and Patricia Meunier-Lebouc (2002 and 2003).
The 25-year-old player entered by the front door in the history of French golf, becoming the 8th Frenchwoman to register her name on the LADIES 'BRITISH OPEN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP palmares since 1927, after Simone Thion de la Chaume (1927), Nanette Le Blan (1928), Lally de Saint-Sauveur (1950), Brigitte Varangot (1963, 65 and 68), Catherine Lacoste (1969), Valérie Michaud (1991), and Marine Monnet (1999).

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