Player Bio: Celine Boutier2020 U.S. Women's Open

Age: 27
Country: France
College: Duke University
Worldwide professional victories: 6 (1 on LPGA Tour)
Exempt status: Top 10 and ties from 2019 U.S. Women’s Open; Top 30 points leaders in LPGA Tour’s Race to the CME Globe; Top 75 in Rolex Rankings as of March 16

The 2016 Duke graduate broke through for her first LPGA Tour victory in February 2019 at the ISPS Handa Vic Open, an event co-sanctioned with the Australian Ladies Tour. Boutier also owns a pair of victories on the Ladies European Tour and Symetra Tour. Earlier in 2020 while the LPGA Tour was on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she captured the Texas Women’s Open. Boutier battled eventual winner Jeongeun Lee6 last year at the Country Club of Charleston before settling for a share of fifth in her third U.S. Women’s Open start. As an amateur, Boutier won the 2012 European Ladies Amateur and 2015 British Ladies Amateur. At Duke, she won three events and led the Blue Devils to the 2014 NCAA title. She represented France in the 2012 and 2014 Women’s World Amateur Championships, and in 2019, she was a member of the victorious European Solheim Cup Team. 

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