Rebecca Hudson

Rebecca Hudson
Personal information
Full nameRebecca Emma Gisela Hudson
Born (1979-06-13) 13 June 1979 (age 45)
Doncaster, England
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Sporting nationality England
Career
CollegeDoncaster College
Turned professional2002
Former tour(s)Ladies European Tour
Professional wins5
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour4
Other1
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipDNP
Women's PGA C'shipDNP
U.S. Women's OpenCUT: 2014
Women's British OpenT32: 2001
Evian ChampionshipDNP

Rebecca Emma Gisela Hudson (born 13 June 1979) is an English professional golfer who played on the Ladies European Tour.

Amateur career

Hudson was born in Doncaster, England. She had a very successful junior and amateur career. She was Yorkshire Girls Champion in 1994, Yorkshire Champion 1995,1997 and 1998, English Girls Champion in 1995 and 1996 and won the Daily Telegraph Junior Golfer of the Year Award in 1994, 1995 and 1997.[1] She also won the Joyce Wethered Award for the young player making the best effort at combining top level golf with education.[2]

She was 1997 French under-21 champion, 2000 Spanish Ladies Amateur champion, 2000 Scottish strokeplay champion, 2000 English Women's Strokeplay champion, 2000 and 2002 British Ladies Amateur champion, 2000 British Amateur strokeplay champion and 2000 English strokeplay champion. In 2001, she won the English Women's Amateur Championship, was British Amateur strokeplay champion and winner of Smyth Salver for leading amateur at the Weetabix Women's British Open.[3][4]

She won the 2000 Daily Telegraph Women's Golfer of the Year award,[2] was a member of the Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup team in 1998, 2000 and 2002,[5][6] and was a member of the Great Britain & Ireland 2000 Espirito Santo Trophy World Amateur Team Championship team.[7]

Professional career

Hudson turned professional in September 2002 and joined the Ladies European Tour with conditional status in 2003. She gained her first professional win at the 2006 Acer Women's SA Open on the Ladies African Tour,[8] and won the 2006 Ladies African Tour Order of Merit.[9] She won her first Ladies European Tour title at the Ladies Central European Open in 2006.[10]

Hudson gained her second Ladies European Tour victory at the Euro 300,000 Tenerife Ladies Open 19–22 June 2008 and then her third at English Open at the Oxfordshire Golf Club the week after. She ended the season 10th on the New Star Money list, (the LET's official order of merit).

Also in 2008 she won the European Team Championship for England partnered with Trish Johnson.

Professional wins

Ladies European Tour wins

Other wins

Team appearances

Amateur

References

  1. ^ "Rebecca Hudson Profile". Archived from the original on 17 July 2006. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
  2. ^ a b "Rebecca Hudson receives Telegraph award". Golf Today. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
  3. ^ "Biography – Rebecca Hudson". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
  4. ^ Park, Martin (29 October 2002). "Hudson leads talented newcomers at Tour school". Ladies European Tour. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
  5. ^ "Previous Curtis Cup Matches 1932–2002". USGA. Retrieved 23 March 2007.
  6. ^ "2000 Curtis Cup". USGA (United States Golf Association0. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
  7. ^ "World Amateur Team Championship Record Books". International Golf Federation. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
  8. ^ "Acer Women's SA Open". Ladies African Tour. 4 March 2006. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
  9. ^ "2006 Order of Merit". Ladies African Tour. 16 March 2006. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
  10. ^ "Rebecca Hudson claims first LET win in Hungary". Golf Today News. Retrieved 27 April 2007.