Rebecca Hudson

Hudson was born in Doncaster, England. She had a very successful junior and amateur career. She was Yorkshire Girls Champion in 1994, Yorkshire Champion 1995,1997 and 1998, English Girls Champion in 1995 and 1996 and won the Daily Telegraph Junior Golfer of the Year Award in 1994, 1995 and 1997.{{cite web|title=Rebecca Hudson Profile |url=http://rebeccahudson.signings4you.com/RebeccaHudsonBio.htm |accessdate=27 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717015810/http://rebeccahudson.signings4you.com/RebeccaHudsonBio.htm |archivedate=17 July 2006 }} She also won the Joyce Wethered Award for the young player making the best effort at combining top level golf with education.

{{cite web

| title = Rebecca Hudson receives Telegraph award

| publisher = Golf Today

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| accessdate = 27 April 2007}}

She was 1997 French under-21 champion, 2000 Spanish Ladies Amateur champion, 2000 Scottish strokeplay champion, 2000 English Women's Strokeplay champion, 2000 and 2002 British Ladies Amateur champion, 2000 British Amateur strokeplay champion and 2000 English strokeplay champion. In 2001, she won the English Women's Amateur Championship, was British Amateur strokeplay champion and winner of Smyth Salver for leading amateur at the Weetabix Women's British Open.

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{{cite web

|title = Hudson leads talented newcomers at Tour school

|publisher = Ladies European Tour

|date = 29 October 2002

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She won the 2000 Daily Telegraph Women's Golfer of the Year award, was a member of the Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup team in 1998, 2000 and 2002,

{{cite web

| title = Previous Curtis Cup Matches 1932–2002

| publisher = USGA

| url = http://www.curtiscup.org/2004/history/previous_matches.html

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{{cite web

| title = 2000 Curtis Cup

| publisher = USGA (United States Golf Association0

| url = http://www.curtiscup.org/2004/history/us_teams/2000.html

| accessdate = 27 April 2007}} and was a member of the Great Britain & Ireland 2000 Espirito Santo Trophy World Amateur Team Championship team.

{{cite web

| title = World Amateur Team Championship Record Books

| publisher = International Golf Federation

| url = http://www.internationalgolffederation.org/recordbook/wplayer2.asp?fname=Rebecca&mname=&lname=Hudson&country=Great%20Britain%20and%20Ireland

| accessdate = 27 April 2007}}

Hudson turned professional in September 2002 and joined the Ladies European Tour with conditional status in 2003. She gained her first professional win at the 2006 Acer Women's SA Open on the Ladies African Tour,{{cite web

|title = Acer Women's SA Open

|publisher = Ladies African Tour

|date = 4 March 2006

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}} and won the 2006 Ladies African Tour Order of Merit.

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|title = 2006 Order of Merit

|publisher = Ladies African Tour

|date = 16 March 2006

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}} She won her first Ladies European Tour title at the Ladies Central European Open in 2006.

{{cite web

| title = Rebecca Hudson claims first LET win in Hungary

| publisher = Golf Today News

| url = http://www.golftoday.co.uk/news/yeartodate/news06/otp_bank_3.html

| accessdate = 27 April 2007}}

Hudson gained her second Ladies European Tour victory at the Euro 300,000 Tenerife Ladies Open 19–22 June 2008 and then her third at English Open at the Oxfordshire Golf Club the week after. She ended the season 10th on the New Star Money list, (the LET's official order of merit).

Also in 2008 she won the European Team Championship for England partnered with Trish Johnson.

• 2006 OTP Bank Ladies Central European Open
• 2008 Tenerife Ladies Open, Oxfordshire Ladies English Open, VCI European Ladies Golf Cup (with Trish Johnson)

• 2006 Acer SA Women's Open

Amateur

• European Ladies' Team Championship (representing England): 1997, 1999, 2001
• Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1997, 2001
• Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1998, 2000, 2002
• Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2000
• Commonwealth Trophy (representing Great Britain): 1999

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• {{Official website|http://www.becshudson.weebly.com}}
• {{LadiesEuroTour player|101041}}
• {{WWGR|229}}

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