Pauline Roussin


Pauline Roussin-Bouchard is a French professional golfer. She was number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 34 weeks in 2020.

Amateur career

Roussin represented the French National Team from age 14 and won the 2015 European Young Masters both individually and with her team. She played in two Espirito Santo Trophies and six European Girls' Team Championship and European Ladies' Team Championships, winning silver in 2018.
She representied Europe at the 2016 Junior Ryder Cup and was on the winning Vagliano Trophy team in 2019. She won the 2020 [Arnold Palmer Cup] with the international team.
Roussin enrolled at the University of South Carolina in 2019 to play golf with the South Carolina Gamecocks. She had the best season for a freshman in program history and won five times in her first two years.
Roussin won the Spanish International Stroke Play and St Rule Trophy in 2016, and the Grand Prix de Valcros in 2017. In 2018 she was runner-up at the Swiss International Ladies Championship and Grand Prix de ligue PACA Dames, and won the Grand Prix de Valgarde.
In 2019, she won The [Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship] with France. She played in the Ladies European Tour event Jabra Ladies Open and was one stroke clear of the field heading into the final round, finishing runner-up as England's Annabel Dimmock won by one shot. The top two finish qualified her for the 2019 Evian Championship.
Roussin reached number 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in January 2020. She made her U.S. Open debut at the 2020 U.S. Women's Open by virtue of her WAGR rank. She made the cut and finished T46.

Professional career

Roussin turned professional in August 2021 and claimed a victory in just her second event as a professional, the Skaftö Open on the Ladies European Tour, two weeks after she ended life as an amateur, where she shot a second round of 60.
Roussin earned her card for the 2022 LPGA Tour through qualifying school.

Amateur wins

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.
Tournament2019202020212022202320242025
Chevron ChampionshipT35CUTT62
U.S. Women's OpenT46CUTCUTT28
Women's PGA ChampionshipCUTT10
The Evian ChampionshipCUTNTT3872T54CUTCUT
Women's British OpenCUTT69

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament

T = tied

Summary

  • Most consecutive cuts made – 3
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 1

Team appearances

Amateur