Full name Alison Nicholas Women's PGA C'ship T23: 2000 Height 1.52 m Professional wins 18 ANA Inspiration T16: 1995 Role Golfer LPGA tour wins 4 | Other 2 Name Alison Nicholas Ladies european tour 12 Nationality England U.S. Women's Open Won: 1997 Turned professional 1984 | |
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Former tours Ladies European Tour, LPGA | ||
Alison nicholas on the golf podcast
Alison Nicholas MBE (born 6 March 1962) is an English golfer.
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- Alison nicholas on the golf podcast
- Professional Golfer Alison Nicholas talks about her experience of sport psychology during her career
- Amateur career
- Professional career
- LPGA Tour wins 4
- Ladies European Tour wins 12
- Other wins 2
- Team appearances
- References
Professional Golfer Alison Nicholas talks about her experience of sport psychology during her career
Amateur career
Nicholas was born in Gibraltar. She was educated at the School of St Mary and St Anne (now Abbots Bromley School for Girls). She enjoyed a very successful amateur career in England. She started playing golf at the age of 17 and won the 1982 and 1983 Northern Girls Amateur Open. Nicholas was the 1983 British Amateur Stroke Play champion. In 1983, Nicholas won the Yorkshire Ladies County Championship.
Professional career
Nicholas turned professional in 1984 and joined the Ladies European Tour in the same year. She joined the LPGA Tour in 1989.
Nicholas won the British Women's Open in 1987, when it was recognised as a major championship by the Ladies European Tour only, and the 1997 U.S. Women's Open.
At her retirement at the end of the 2004 season, Nicholas had won 12 events on the Ladies European Tour. She topped the European Tour Order of Merit in 1997 and finished in the top-ten fifteen times in 16 seasons between 1985 and 2000. She also won four times on the LPGA Tour, between 1995 and 1999, including winning the U.S. Women's Open in 1997. In 1992, she won both the Western Australian Open and the Malaysian Open.
She won the 1991 Vivien Saunders Trophy for lowest stroke average (71.71). In 1997, she became the Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year, was awarded The Association of Golf Writers Trophy and was voted LET Players' Player of the Year, 1997 Evening Mail Sports Personality of the Year and 1997 Midlands Sports Personality of the Year.
In 1998, she was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for "services to women's golf", and in 2002 became a Life Member of the Ladies European Tour.
Nicholas was a member of the European Solheim Cup team in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 forming a formidable partnership with Laura Davies. She was Vice Captain in 2003. In 2007, Nicholas was the captain for the 2009 and 2011 European Solheim Cup teams.
LPGA Tour wins (4)
LPGA Tour playoff record (0–1)
Ladies European Tour wins (12)
Other wins (2)
Team appearances
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