Alison Nicholas

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Alison Nicholas
MBE
File:2009 Solheim Cup - Alison Nicholas (1).jpg
Nicholas at the official announcement of the 2009 Solheim Cup team
Personal information
Full nameAlison Nicholas
Born (1962-03-06) 6 March 1962 (age 64)
Gibraltar
Height1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Sporting nationalityFile:Flag of England.svg England
Career
Turned professional1984
Former toursLadies European Tour (joined 1984)
LPGA Tour (joined 1989)
Professional wins18
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour4
Ladies European Tour12 (10th all-time)
Other2
Best results in LPGA major championships
(wins: 1)
Chevron ChampionshipT16: 1995
Women's PGA C'shipT23: 2000
U.S. Women's OpenWon: 1997
du Maurier ClassicCUT: 1997
Women's British Open28th: 2004
Achievements and awards
Ladies European Tour
Order of Merit		1997
Ladies European Tour
Player of the Year		1997

Alison Nicholas MBE (born 6 March 1962) is an English professional golfer, who won the 1997 U.S. Women's Open.

Amateur career

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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

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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 Women's British 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. She became the seventh player to have won both the British and U.S. Open titles, joining Laura Davies, Jane Geddes, Betsy King, Patty Sheehan, Liselotte Neumann and Annika Sörenstam.

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-10 15 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 the 1998 Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to women's golf,[1] 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 non-playing assistant captain in 2005. In 2007, Nicholas was selected captain for the 2009 and 2011 European Solheim Cup teams.[2] In 2011, she led the European team to a 15–13 victory at Killeen Castle outside Dublin, Ireland.

Professional wins (18)

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LPGA Tour wins (4)

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Legend
LPGA Tour major championships (1)
Other LPGA Tour (3)
No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 28 May 1995 LPGA Corning Classic[3] −13 (70-67-66-72=275) 3 strokes Error creating thumbnail: Barb Mucha
2 10 Sep 1995 Ping-AT&T Wireless Services LPGA Golf Championship[4] −9 (66-73-68=207) 3 strokes Error creating thumbnail: Kelly Robbins
3 13 Jul 1997 U.S. Women's Open −10 (70-66-67-71=274) 1 stroke Error creating thumbnail: Nancy Lopez
4 20 Feb 1999 Sunrise Hawaiian Ladies Open −7 (70-66-73=209) 1 stroke Error creating thumbnail: Annette DeLuca
Error creating thumbnail: Moira Dunn

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 1993 LPGA Corning Classic Error creating thumbnail: Kelly Robbins Lost to par on first extra hole

Ladies European Tour wins (12)

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No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 2 Aug 1987 Weetabix Women's British Open[5] +4 (74-76-73-73=296) 1 stroke England Laura Davies
Error creating thumbnail: Muffin Spencer-Devlin
2 26 Sep 1987 Laing Charity Classic[6] −8 (76-67-69-69=281) 2 strokes Australia Corinne Dibnah
3 21 May 1988 British Olivetti Tournament[7] −9 (71-72-69-71=283) 1 stroke Scotland Jane Connachan
4 4 Sep 1988 Variety Club Celebrity Classic[8] −12 (68-67-69=204) 4 strokes Scotland Dale Reid
5 2 Oct 1988 James Capel Guernsey Open[8] −14 (68-72-67-67= 274) 2 strokes South Africa Alison Sheard
6 30 Jul 1989 Lufthansa Ladies' German Open[9] −19 (67-69-68-65=269) 5 strokes Colombia Patricia Gonzalez
7 27 Aug 1989 Gislaved Ladies Open[10] E (73-72-69-74=288) 2 strokes Sweden Liselotte Neumann
8 3 Nov 1989 Qualitair Classic[11] −3 (69-74-70=213) 2 strokes Error creating thumbnail: Peggy Conley
Sweden Sofia Grönberg
9 2 Sep 1990 Variety Club Celebrity Classic[12] (2) −13 (68-68-68-71=275) 1 stroke Sweden Sofia Grönberg
10 10 May 1992 AGF Ladies' Open de Paris[13] −9 (66-68-73-68=275) 1 stroke Peru Alicia Dibos
11 6 Aug 1995 Payne & Gunter Scottish Open[14] −16 (66-67-70-69=272) 1 stroke France Patricia Meunier
12 28 Jul 1996 Guardian Irish Open[15] −11 (69-73-65-70=277) 8 strokes England Trish Johnson

Ladies European Tour Tour playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 1990 Laing Ladies Charity Classic[16] South Africa Laurette Maritz Lost

Note: Nicholas won the Women's British Open once before it was co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour in 1994, and recognized as a major championship on the LPGA Tour in 2001.

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Other wins (2)

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Major championships

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Wins (1)

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Year Championship Winning score Margin Runner-up
1997 U.S. Women's Open −10 (70-66-67-71=274) 1 stroke Error creating thumbnail: Nancy Lopez

Team appearances

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Professional

Solheim Cup record

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Year Total
matches		 Total
W–L–H		 Singles
W–L–H		 Foursomes
W–L–H		 Fourballs
W–L–H		 Points
won		 Points
%
Career 18 7–8–3 1–3–2 4–3–0 2–2–1 8.5 47.22%
1990 3 1–2–0 0–1–0 lost to N. Lopez 6&4 1–0–0 won w/L. Davies 2&1 0–1–0 lost w/L. Davies 4&3 1 33.3%
1992 3 2–1–0 0–1–0 lost to J. Inkster 3&2 1–0–0 won w/L. Davies 1up 1–0–0 won w/L. Davies 1up 2 66.7%
1994 3 2–1–0 1–0–0 def P. Sheehan 3&2 1–0–0 won w/L.Davies 2&1 0–1–0 lost w/L.Davies 2&1 2 66.7%
1996 3 0–1–2 0–0–1 halved w/ K. Robbins 0–1–0 lost w/L. Davies 1dn 0–0–1 halved w/H. Alfredsson 1 33.3%
1998 2 0–2–0 0–1–0 lost to T. Green 1dn 0–1–0 lost w/H. Alfredsson 3&1 0 0%
2000 4 2–1–1 0–0–1 halved w/S. Steinhauer 1–1–0 won w/L. Davies 4&3, lost w/L.Davies 6&5 1–0–0 won w/H. Alfredsson 3&2 2.5 62.5%

See also

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Notes and references

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