Resident of the LPGA Tour for three seasons, the Ile-de-France exile in Dallas (Texas) digs her hole among the world’s top gratin.
Céline Boutier won the second title of her career on the LPGA Tour by winning the ShopRite Classic tournament on Sunday in Galloway, New Jersey, her first title on American soil. The 27-year-old Frenchwoman won with a score of 199, or 14 strokes under par, concluding with two birdies on her last three holes, without any bogey.
In front of the world n ° 2 and n ° 3
Enough score for a one-shot victory over a group of three players: the South Korean world No. 2 and No. 3, Ko Jin-young Ko and Inbee Park, and Canada’s Brooke Henderson. “I played very solid, I gave myself a lot of opportunities and gave up a lot of putts”, said Boutier after the competition.
This is the French golfer’s second LPGA title after her victory at the 2019 Women’s Victoria Open in Melbourne, Australia. “It’s incredible! My first victory in Australia was so long ago. It was time to win another one. I’m just on the moon ”, she added.
Born in France to Thai parents, Boutier won three titles in the Ladies European Tour, the most recent just two weeks ago at the Women’s French Open. Boutier birdied six on the first nine holes to move up among the top players in the tournament, before birding on the 16th (par-4) and concluded with a six-foot putt on the 18th (par-5 ) to take a one-shot lead over Ko and Park.
This first title won on American soil, which comes on top of a first victory on the LPGA circuit obtained in Australia in February 2019 at the ISPS Handa Vic Open, allows the Ile-de-France now domiciled in Dallas (Texas) to make its entry into the World Top 50 and now occupy 34th place worldwide.
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