Gwladys Nocera

Gwladys Nocera
Personal information
Born (1975-05-22) 22 May 1975 (age 49)
Moulins, France
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Sporting nationality France
ResidenceBiarritz, France
Career
CollegeNew Mexico State University
(2001, International Business)
Turned professional2002
Current tour(s)Ladies European Tour (joined 2003)
LPGA Tour (joined 2010)
Professional wins15
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour14 (T7th all-time)
ALPG Tour1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT24: 2010
Women's PGA C'ship72: 2015
U.S. Women's OpenT38: 2016
Women's British OpenT12: 2014
Evian ChampionshipT64: 2015
Achievements and awards
Ladies European Tour
Order of Merit winner		2008
Ladies European Tour
Player of the Year		2006, 2008
Medal record
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 1997 Bari Women's team

Gwladys Nocera (born 22 May 1975) is a French professional golfer who formerly played on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour.

Amateur career

Nocera was born in Moulins, Allier. She is of Portuguese descent.[1] 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).[2] She was a playing member of the 2002 French Espirito Santo Trophy team.[3]

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.

Professional career

Nocera turned professional at the relatively late age of twenty-seven and finished ninth at the 2002 Ladies European Tour 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.[4]

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.[5] 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.[6][7][8] 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.[9]

On 20 January 2008, at the fourth Women's World Cup of Golf in Sun City, South Africa, team France with Nocera and Virginie Lagoutte-Clément finished fifth, seven shots behind winning South Korean team Jiyai Shin and Ji Eun-hee over 54 holes.[10]

In 2009, Nocera earned her LPGA Tour card at LPGA Q-School and at the age of 34 was a rookie and an LPGA Tour member the following season. She played the LPGA Tour full-time in 2010 and 2011, reaching a career best second place at the 2010 CVS/Pharmacy LPGA Challenge.[11]

LET 72-hole scoring record

Nocera won the 2008 Göteborg Masters by an 11 stroke margin after scoring 259 (−29) following rounds of 66-62-65-66,[12] the best 72-hole score in the LET's 40-year history. The bogey-free round of 62 is only one stroke off the LET single round scoring record of 61 (−11).[13]

Source:[14]

Amateur wins

Professional wins (15)

Ladies European Tour (14)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 21 May 2006 Ladies Swiss Open 69-70-63-71=273 –15 3 strokes England Laura Davies
2 17 Jun 2006 BMW Ladies Italian Open 71-66-65-72=274 –14 2 strokes France Sophie Giquel-Bettan
3 23 Jul 2006 Catalonia Ladies Masters 69-69-69=207 –9 5 strokes Australia Sarah Kemp
4 10 Jun 2007 KLM Ladies Open 64-70-67=201 –15 7 strokes France Virginie Lagoutte-Clement
5 8 Dec 2007 EMAAR-MGF Ladies Masters 69-69-72-71=281 –7 1 stroke France Virginie Lagoutte-Clement
6 4 May 2008 Ladies Scottish Open 69-70-69=208 –5 2 strokes Sweden Maria Bodén
7 8 Jun 2008 Dutch Ladies Open 67-65-71=203 –13 1 stroke England Mel Reid
8 24 Aug 2008 SAS Masters 69-66-68=203 –13 3 strokes England Tania Elósegui, England Samantha Head
9 21 Sep 2008 Göteborg Masters 66-62-65-66=259 –29 11 strokes Sweden Nina Reis
10 5 Oct 2008 Madrid Ladies Masters 72-69-67=208 –11 4 strokes Spain Paula Martí
11 23 Jun 2013 Allianz Ladies Slovak Open 70-68-71-70=279 –9 4 strokes South Africa Lee-Anne Pace
12 3 Nov 2013 China Suzhou Taihu Open -65=201 –15 2 strokes Spain Carlota Ciganda
13 6 Dec 2014 Hero Women's Indian Open 64-72-72=208 –11 5 strokes Switzerland Fabienne In-Albon, England Hannah Burke, South Korea Hyeon Seo Kang
14 29 Mar 2015 Lalla Meryem Cup 68-65-68-70=271 –13 2 strokes England Felicity Johnson, South Africa Nicole Garcia, England Mel Reid

ALPG Tour (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory 		Runners-up
1 2009 New Zealand Women's Open 71-68-69=208 −8 6 strokes Australia Nikki Garrett, Australia Katherine Hull,
Australia Sarah Kemp, South Korea Bobea Park

Ladies European Tour career summary

Year Wins Earnings (€) Order of Merit
rank		 Scoring
average
2003 0 19,227.24 51 73.32
2004 0 52,496.77 23 72.60
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
2010 0 65,716.66 33
2011 0 51,285.20 46
2012 0 99,744.81 17 72.39
2013 2 221,287.93 4 71.60
2014 1 233,288.65 2 71.00

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

Solheim Cup record

Year Total
matches		 Total
W–L–H		 Singles
W–L–H		 Foursomes
W–L–H		 Fourballs
W–L–H		 Points
won		 Points
%
Career 12 6–4–2 1–2–1 3–1–1 2–1–0 7 58.3%
2005 2 1–1–0 1–0–0 def C. Kerr 2&1 0–1–0 lost w/L. Kreutz 4&2 1 50%
2007 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. Gustafson 3&2 1.5 37.5%
2009 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%
2015 2 1–1–0 0–1–0 lost to A. Lee 3&1 0–0–0 1–0–0 won w/ C. Hull 3&2 1 50%

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Portugal Ladies Open: Gwladys Nocera assume liderança". www.record.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  2. ^ "France Claims Women's World Amateur Team Championship By 7 Strokes". International Golf Federation. Retrieved 2 April 2007.
  3. ^ "World Amateur Team Championship Record Books Player: Gwladys Nocera". International Golf Federation. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
  4. ^ "Gwladys Nocera rising star of The Solheim Cup". GolfToday. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
  5. ^ Cutler, Bethan (18 January 2006). "LET season starts with Women's World Cup of Golf 2006". LET. Archived from the original on 25 October 2006. Retrieved 2 April 2007.
  6. ^ Cutler, Bethan (21 May 2006). "Nocera claims her first win at the Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open". Ladies European Tour. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
  7. ^ Cutler, Bethan (17 June 2006). "Nocera seals second Tour win at BMW Ladies Italian Open". Ladies European Tour. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
  8. ^ Cutler, Bethan (23 July 2006). "Nocera claims third victory". Ladies European Tour. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
  9. ^ "Gwladys Nocera Players' Player of the Year". LET. 8 December 2006. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
  10. ^ Abs-Cbn Interactive, RP golfers Rosales, Delasin win women's World Cup
  11. ^ "Players, Gwladys Nocera, Results, 2010". LPGA. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  12. ^ "Resultatlista Göteborg Masters". Golfdata.se. 18 March 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  13. ^ "Nocera wins Göteborg Masters with best score in LET history". Ladies European Tour. 21 September 2008. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  14. ^ "Gwladys Nocera Scorecard at 2008 Göteborg Masters". Golfdata. Retrieved 28 April 2020.