Gwladys Nocera
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Gwladys Nocera is a French
professional golf
er. She currently resides in Biarritz
, France.
. She had a successful amateur career. She finished runner up at the 1998 British Ladies Amateur Championship
, was a member of the victorious European championship French team in 1999 and the youngest ever winning captain in the 2000 Espirito Santo Trophy
World Amateur Golf Team Championships. She was a playing member of the 2002 French Espirito Santo Trophy
World Amateur Golf Team Championships team.
She was runner up at the 2002 French Amateur Championship, 2002 French International Champion and 2002 German International champion. She holds a degree in international business from New Mexico State University
.
Qualifying School
to win a place on the tour for the following season. After a modest start she improved dramatically in 2005, when she finished fourth on the Order of Merit and made her Solheim Cup
debut where she beat Cristie Kerr
in her singles match.
In 2006 her career took another upward turn. She started the year representing France
at the Women's World Cup of Golf
with Karine Icher
. She scored her first three Ladies European Tour tournament victories at the Ladies Swiss Open, the BMW Ladies Italian Open and the Catalonia Ladies Masters. She also played in her first women's major tournament, the Kraft Nabisco Championship
. She finished second on the New Star Money list being beaten only by Laura Davies
the holder of the record number of money list wins and was voted Players’ Player of the Year by her fellow Ladies European Tour
professionals.
On 20 January 2008, Jennifer Rosales
and Dorothy Delasin
of Team Philippines won the 4th Women's World Cup of Golf
in Sun City
, South Africa
, with 4 birdies in the last 4 holes. The duo had a final round of 7-under-par 65 in the best ball, for a 54-hole aggregate of 18-under-par 198. Korea
's Ji-Yai Shin and Eun Hee Ji were second on 200 after a final round 67, while Taiwan
(Amy Hung
and Yun Jye Wei) and Japan
(Shinobu Moromizato and Miki Saiki) tied for third on 203. France
's Gwladys Nocera and Virginie Lagoutte-Clement, were fifth on 205 following 67.
In 2009, Nocera earned her LPGA Tour card at LPGA Q-School and at the age of 34 will be a rookie and full-time LPGA Tour member in the 2010 season.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
professional golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
er. She currently resides in Biarritz
Biarritz
Biarritz is a city which lies on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast, in south-western France. It is a luxurious seaside town and is popular with tourists and surfers....
, France.
Amateur career
Nocera was born in Moulins, AllierMoulins, Allier
Moulins is a commune in central France, capital of the Allier department.Among its many tourist attractions are the Maison Mantin the Anne de Beaujeu Museum.-History:...
. She had a successful amateur career. She finished runner up at the 1998 British Ladies Amateur Championship
British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship
The British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship was founded in 1893 by the Ladies' Golf Union of Great Britain. Until the dawn of the professional era in 1976, it was the most important golf tournament for women in Great Britain and would eventually begin to draw golfers from continental Europe...
, was a member of the victorious European championship French team in 1999 and the youngest ever winning captain in the 2000 Espirito Santo Trophy
Espirito Santo Trophy
The Espirito Santo Trophy is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964 and recent tournaments have featured teams from around forty countries. It is a strokeplay event, in which the best two...
World Amateur Golf Team Championships. She was a playing member of the 2002 French Espirito Santo Trophy
Espirito Santo Trophy
The Espirito Santo Trophy is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964 and recent tournaments have featured teams from around forty countries. It is a strokeplay event, in which the best two...
World Amateur Golf Team Championships team.
She was runner up at the 2002 French Amateur Championship, 2002 French International Champion and 2002 German International champion. She holds a degree in international business from New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University at Las Cruces , is a major land-grant university in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States...
.
Professional career
Nocera turned professional at the relatively late age of twenty-seven and finished ninth at the 2002 Ladies European TourLadies European Tour
The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1979. It is based in England. Like many UK-based sports organisations it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal structure which enables it to focus on maximising returns to its members through prize money,...
Qualifying School
Qualifying school
In professional golf the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S. based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the tour for the following season, otherwise known as a...
to win a place on the tour for the following season. After a modest start she improved dramatically in 2005, when she finished fourth on the Order of Merit and made her Solheim Cup
Solheim Cup
The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. It is named after the Norwegian-American golf club manufacturer Karsten Solheim, who was a driving force behind its creation.The inaugural Cup was held in 1990,...
debut where she beat Cristie Kerr
Cristie Kerr
Cristie Kerr is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She has 14 wins on the LPGA Tour, including two major championships, and over $13 million in career earnings...
in her singles match.
In 2006 her career took another upward turn. She started the year representing France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
at the Women's World Cup of Golf
Women's World Cup of Golf
The Women's World Cup of Golf was a professional golf tournament contested by teams of two female golfers representing their respective countries....
with Karine Icher
Karine Icher
Karine Icher is a French professional golfer who plays mainly on the U.S. based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour.-Amateur career:...
. She scored her first three Ladies European Tour tournament victories at the Ladies Swiss Open, the BMW Ladies Italian Open and the Catalonia Ladies Masters. She also played in her first women's major tournament, the Kraft Nabisco Championship
Kraft Nabisco Championship
The Kraft Nabisco Championship is one of the four major championships on the LPGA Tour. It was founded in 1972 by Dinah Shore and has been classified as a major since 1983...
. She finished second on the New Star Money list being beaten only by Laura Davies
Laura Davies
Laura Jane Davies CBE is an English professional golfer.She is considered the most accomplished English female golfer of modern times being the first non-American to finish at the top of the LPGA money list...
the holder of the record number of money list wins and was voted Players’ Player of the Year by her fellow Ladies European Tour
Ladies European Tour
The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1979. It is based in England. Like many UK-based sports organisations it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal structure which enables it to focus on maximising returns to its members through prize money,...
professionals.
On 20 January 2008, Jennifer Rosales
Jennifer Rosales
Jennifer Rosales is a Filipino professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.-Amateur career:Rosales was born in Manila, Philippines. She won the Philippine Ladies Amateur Golf Championship five times in a row from 1994 to 1998...
and Dorothy Delasin
Dorothy Delasin
Dorothy Delasin is a Filipino-American professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.Delasin was born in Lubbock, Texas and grew up in San Francisco, California. She had dual American and Filipino citizenship but gave it up sometime before 1999. She had a strong amateur career, wining both the U.S. Girls'...
of Team Philippines won the 4th Women's World Cup of Golf
Women's World Cup of Golf
The Women's World Cup of Golf was a professional golf tournament contested by teams of two female golfers representing their respective countries....
in Sun City
Sun City, North West
Sun City is a luxury casino and resort, situated in the North West Province of South Africa. It is located about two hours' drive from Johannesburg, near the city of Rustenburg. The complex borders the Pilanesberg Game Reserve.- History :...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, with 4 birdies in the last 4 holes. The duo had a final round of 7-under-par 65 in the best ball, for a 54-hole aggregate of 18-under-par 198. Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
's Ji-Yai Shin and Eun Hee Ji were second on 200 after a final round 67, while Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
(Amy Hung
Amy Hung
Amy Hung is a professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.-Amateur wins:*1992 Junior World Golf Championships *1993 Greg Norman Junior Masters...
and Yun Jye Wei) and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
(Shinobu Moromizato and Miki Saiki) tied for third on 203. France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
's Gwladys Nocera and Virginie Lagoutte-Clement, were fifth on 205 following 67.
In 2009, Nocera earned her LPGA Tour card at LPGA Q-School and at the age of 34 will be a rookie and full-time LPGA Tour member in the 2010 season.
Amateur wins (1)
- 2002 (1) French International Championship, German International Championship
Ladies European Tour (10)
- 2006 (3) Ladies Swiss OpenLadies Swiss OpenThe Ladies Swiss Open is a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour that is held in Switzerland. It was first played in 1996 but was cancelled after the 1997 event, then returned to the tour schedule in 2006, with Deutsche Bank as the title sponsor.-Winners:-External links:*...
, BMW Ladies Italian Open, Catalonia Ladies Masters - 2007 (2) KLM Ladies Open, Indian Ladies Masters
- 2008 (5) Ladies Scottish OpenLadies Scottish OpenThe Ladies Scottish Open is a professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour that is held in Scotland. It was first played in 1986 but has not been a regular fixture on the tour schedule.-Winners:-External links:*...
, Dutch Ladies OpenDutch Ladies OpenThe Dutch Ladies Open is a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour that takes place in the Netherlands. It was first played in 1986, and annually since 2004.-Winners:-External links: *...
, SAS Masters, Göteborg Masters, Madrid Ladies MastersMadrid Ladies MastersThe Madrid Ladies Masters was a professional golf tournament in Spain on the Ladies European Tour. The 54-hole event was held at the par-73 Casino Club de Golf Retamares in early October and played for three years, from 2007 to 2009....
Ladies European Tour career summary
| Year | Wins | Earnings (€) | Order of Merit rank | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 0 | 19,227.24 | 51 | 73.32 |
| 2004 | 0 | 52,496.77 | 23 | 72.6 |
| 2005 | 0 | 164,739.73 | 4 | 71.31 |
| 2006 | 3 | 415,020.50 | 2 | 70.42 |
| 2007 | 2 | 207,478.98 | 3 | 71.97 |
| 2008 | 5 | 391,839.58 | 1 | 70.54 |
| 2009 | 0 | 137,730.27 | 9 | 71.85 |
Solheim Cup record
| Year | Total Matches | Total W-L-H | Singles W-L-H | 4somes W-L-H | 4balls W-L-H | Points Won | Points % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 10 | 5-3-2 | 1-1-1 | 3-1-1 | 1-1-0 | 6 | 60%% |
| 2005 2005 Solheim Cup The 9th Solheim Cup Match was held between September 9 and September 11, 2005 at Crooked Stick Golf Club, Carmel, Indiana, USA. Team USA won the trophy for the sixth time by a score of 15½ to 12½ points... |
2 | 1-1-0 | 1-0-0 def C. Kerr 2&1 | 0-1-0 lost w/L. Kreutz 4&2 | 1 | 50% | |
| 2007 2007 Solheim Cup The 2007 Solheim Cup, the tenth edition of the tournament, was held between Friday, 14 September and Sunday, 16 September, at Halmstad GK, Halmstad, Sweden. It was a three-day contest for professional female golfers, pitting the 12 best players born in the United States against the 12 best players... |
4 | 1-2-1 | 0-1-0 lost to N. Gulbis 4&3 | 1-0-1 won w/M. Hjorth 3&2, halved w/M. Hjorth | 0-1-0 lost w/S. Gustaphson 3&2 | 1.5 | 37.5% |
| 2009 2009 Solheim Cup The 11th Solheim Cup Matches were held between August 21 and August 23, 2009 at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois in the United States... |
4 | 3-0-1 | 0-0-1 halved w/J. Inkster | 2-0-0 won w/B.Brewerton 3&1, won w/B.Brewerton 5&4 | 1-0-0 won w/M. Hjorth 1 up | 3.5 | 87.6% |