# French International Ladies Amateur Championship

The French International Ladies Amateur Championship, known since 1998 also as the Cécile de Rothschild Trophy, is an annual amateur golf tournament in France for women.
This stroke play championship, contested over 54 holes, was first held in 1962, making it the oldest such international ladies amateur championship in Europe. The British equivalent, the British Ladies Amateur Stroke Play Championship, was created several years later.
Initially it attracted little international interest and the title was contested mainly between French players. Brigitte Varangot, Catherine Lacoste and Odile Garaïalde dominated the event in the early years. By the 1990s the championship was attracting an international field and in 1992 the Spaniard Estefania Knuth won the title, followed in second place by her compatriot Laura Navarro.
Between 1994 and 2002 the tournament was contested every other year, alternating with the International de France Match Play, which was discontinued in 2001. Since 1998, due to a donation from Nathaniel de Rothschild, the winner is presented with the Cécile de Rothschild Trophy in her memory. The trophy is always kept at Morfontaine Golf Club.

## Winners

| Year | Venue | Champion | Score | Runner(s)-up |
| Trophée Cécile de Rothschild ||||||
| 2024 | Morfontaine | Mila Tamisier | 207 | Sophie Renner Giselle Zhao |
| 2023 | Chiberta | Carlotta Locatelli | 199 | Sara Brentcheneff |
| 2022 | Roissy | Paris Appendino | 209 | Cecilie Finne-Ipsen |
| 2021 | Chiberta | Elena Moosmann | 201 | Maylis Lamoure |
| 2020 | Omaha Beach | Charlotte Liautier | 212$^{PO}$ | Ariane Klotz |
| 2019 | Bondues | Virginia Elena Carta | 209 | Nataliya Guseva |
| 2018 | Granville | Clarisse Louis | 286 | Mimi Rhodes Anouk Sohier |
| 2017 | Morfontaine | Puk Lyng Thomsen | 274 | Alessia Nobilio |
| 2016 | Belle Dune | Alessia Nobilio | 283$^{PO}$ | Beatrice Wallin |
| 2015 | Morfontaine | Anna Backman | 281$^{PO}$ | Inès Lescudier |
| 2014 | Saint-Germain | Anyssia Herbaut | 280 | Gioia Carpinelli |
| 2013 | Morfontaine | Mathilda Cappeliez | 281$^{PO}$ | Nanna Koerstz Madsen |
| 2012 | Saint-Germain | Franziska Friedrich | 213 | Alexandra Peters |
| 2011 | Morfontaine | Perrine Delacour | 212 | Fiona Puyo |
| 2010 | Palmola | Noemi Jiménez Martin | 273 | Béatrice Soubiron |
| 2009 | Fontainebleau | Justine Dreher | 289 | Ann-Kathrin Lindner |
| 2008 | Morfontaine | Carlota Ciganda | 285 | Barbara Genuini Lucie André |
| 2007 | Ésery | Morgane Bazin de Jessey | 294 | Emilie Alonso Caroline Rominger |
| 2006 | Morfontaine | Isabelle Boineau | 285$^{PO}$ | Anne-Lise Caudal |
| 2005 | Pau | Anne-Lise Caudal | 282 | Alexandra Vilatte |
| 2004 | Morfontaine | Pia Odefey | | Dewi Claire Schreefel |
| 2003 | Le Lys | Anne-Sophie Le Nalio | 272 | Fanny Schaeffer |
| 2002 | Morfontaine | Gwladys Nocera | 284 | Elena Giraud |
| 2001 | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament |
| 2000 | Morfontaine | Carmen Alonso | 288 | Tania Elósegui |
| 1999 | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament |
| 1998 | Morfontaine | Stéphanie Arricau | 286 | Marieke Zelsmann |
| International de France Medal Play ||||||
| 1997 | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament |
| 1996 | Médoc | Anna Berg | 277 | Marcella Neggers |
| 1995 | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament |
| 1994 | Le Golf National | Amandine Vincent | 284 | Alessandra Salvi |
| 1993 | Apremont | Macarena Campomanes | 294 | Sara Beautell |
| 1992 | Paris International | Estefania Knuth | 279 | Laura Navarro |
| 1991 | Saint-Nom | Cécilia Mourgue d'Algue | 290 | Valérie Michaud |
| 1990 | Morfontaine | Kristel Mourgue d'Algue | 288 | Carole Marty |
| 1989 | Saint-Cloud | Deborah Lee Eldridge | 293 | Aline Van der Haegen |
| 1988 | Saint-Nom | Cécilia Mourgue d'Algue | 297 | Caroline Bourtayre |
| 1987 | Le Lys | Sophie Louapre | 292 | Carole Marty |
| 1986 | Saint-Germain | Cécilia Mourgue d'Algue | 300 | Corinne Soulès |
| 1985 | La Boulie | Karine Espinasse | 289 | Sophie Louapre |
| 1984 | Fontainebleau | Catherine Lacoste | 302 | Virginie Labesse Burrus |
| 1983 | Le Lys | Corinne Soulès | 288 | Éliane Berthet |
| 1982 | Saint-Cloud | Cécilia Mourgue d'Algue | 294 | Marie-Laure de Lorenzi |
| 1981 | Saint-Nom | Éliane Berthet | | Sophie Lapaire |
| 1980 | Morfontaine | Marie-Laure de Lorenzi | 295 | Cécilia Mourgue d'Algue |
| 1979 | La Boulie | Marie-Christine Ubald-Bocquet | 301 | Cécilia Mourgue d'Algue |
| 1978 | Morfontaine | Nathalie Jeanson | 283 | Catherine Lacoste |
| 1977 | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament |
| 1976 | | Marie-Christine Ubald-Bocquet | 296 | Carole Charbonnier |
| 1975 | Saint Germain | Catherine Lacoste | 293 | Anne Marie Palli |
| 1974 | Saint Cloud | Martine Giraud | 289 | Odile Garaïalde |
| 1973 | Morfontaine | Odile Garaïalde | 305 | Brigitte Varangot Anne Marie Palli |
| 1972 | Saint Nom | Brigitte Varangot | 311 | Odile Garaïalde |
| 1971 | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament | No tournament |
| 1970 | Saint Cloud | Brigitte Varangot | 299 | Martine Giraud |
| 1969 | Saint Cloud | Odile Garaïalde | 302 | Martine Giraud |
| 1968 | Saint Germain | Odile Garaïalde | 293 | Catherine Lacoste |
| 1967 | Saint Cloud | Catherine Lacoste | 300 | Brigitte Varangot |
| Trophée Carven ||||||
| 1966 | Saint Cloud | Catherine Lacoste | 293 | Claudine Cros |
| 1965 | Saint Cloud | Catherine Lacoste | 291 | Claudine Cros |
| 1964 | Saint Cloud | Brigitte Varangot | 304 | Catherine Lacoste |
| 1963 | Chantilly | Brigitte Varangot | 315 | Claudine Cros |
| 1962 | Morfontaine | Claudine Cros | 298 | Brigitte Varangot |
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