Previous American Golf Membership Member Celine Boutier Looking for Third LPGA Win | LPGA

Frenchwoman Celine Boutier has discovered a house away from house in Dallas, Texas as a member at Previous American Golf Membership, the location of this week’s The Ascendant LPGA benefiting Volunteers of America. The 28-year-old has lived within the Lone Star State for the final 5 years and tries to rise up to the property as typically as doable to organize for her “hometown” occasion, a match through which she’s completed within the prime 15 twice in 4 earlier appearances.

“It is undoubtedly thrilling to be actually near house and to have a few of my pals come out and watch later this week. I am undoubtedly trying ahead to it, and I additionally just like the course rather a lot, so I hope to get some good rounds going and hopefully play for an opportunity to win this weekend,” stated Boutier, whose finest end in The Ascendant LPGA is a tie for eighth that got here in 2021. “I am a member right here, I do know some members out right here, so I come to play every so often, at all times a number of rounds. And particularly this spring, understanding we had been coming right here, I did come a number of occasions. I feel it is an excellent course.”

Boutier has had certainly one of her most strong seasons but in 2022, carding six top-five finishes, together with a solo second on the Belief Golf Girls’s Scottish Open and a tie for fourth at The Chevron Championship. She has three further prime 10s to her credit score, most notably a tie for seventh that got here in early August on the AIG Girls’s Open at Muirfield. Statistically, she ranks fourth in putts per inexperienced in regulation (1.74), eleventh in scoring common (69.82) and thirteenth in rounds below par (45). She can be seventeenth in placing common (29.35) and fifteenth in official earnings this season ($1,089,467). Though a 3rd LPGA Tour title has continued to elude her, Boutier stays targeted on the positives she’s seen this yr from her sport and can be leaning on that as she appears to be like to change into the winningest French participant on Tour at an occasion meaning a lot.

“I attempt to preserve (considering of) the positives. Regardless that I’ve come shut a number of occasions, I really feel prefer it may very well be a nasty factor as a result of I have not been capable of win, however on the similar time, I’ve additionally been so constant, extra within the prime 10 than I’ve ever been,” stated Boutier, whose final LPGA Tour win got here on the 2021 ShopRite LPGA Basic offered by Acer. “So I feel it is undoubtedly one thing that it’s a must to have a look at and likewise soak up, as a result of I really feel like I am undoubtedly getting higher as a participant and I really feel like that is an enormous optimistic. I do know if I preserve going that course and that method, it’ll come.”