Simone Thion de la Chaume (24 November 1908 – 4 September 2001) was a French

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...

 amateur golfer.

In 1924, she became the first foreign player to win the British Girls Amateur and in 1927 the first to win the British Ladies Amateur, then the most prestgious tournament in British and European ladies' golf and an event her daughter, Catherine Lacoste

Catherine Lacoste

Catherine Lacoste is a French amateur golfer. She won the 1967 U.S. Women's Open as a 22-year-old amateur, playing in just her third professional golf tournament...

, would also win 42 years later.

At the 1927 U.S. Women's Amateur, she lost in the third round to former three-time champion, Alexa Stirling

Alexa Stirling

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While attending a Davis Cup

Davis Cup

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 match, Simone de la Chaume met the French tennis

Tennis

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 star René Lacoste

René Lacoste

Jean René Lacoste was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" by fans because of his tenacity on the court; he is also known worldwide as the namesake of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929.Lacoste was one of The Four Musketeers, French tennis...

. They married in 1929 and had three sons and a daughter. The Lacoste's would go on to form the Lacoste

Lacoste (company)

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 company and build a sportswear empire.

She founded the Golf de Chantaco club in Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Saint-Jean-de-Luz

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 in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Pyrénées-Atlantiques

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 département of France near Biarritz

Biarritz

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Simone Lacoste died in Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 2001.

Principal victories:

• 1924: British Girls Amateur
• 1927: British Ladies Amateur
• 1930, 1935, 1938, 1939: French International Ladies Golf Championship
• 1936, 1937, 1939: French Ladies National Championship