Nicole Garcia

Nicole Garcia (born 10 December 1990) is a South African professional golfer playing on the Ladies European Tour (LET). She was runner-up at the 2015 Lalla Meryem Cup and captained the winning team at the 2022 Aramco Team Series – London. Amateur career Garcia was born in Benoni, Gauteng to a Spanish father and British mother, and started playing golf at the age of 15. She attended the University of Pretoria and graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor in Sport Sciences. In 2013, Garcia won three amateur tournaments, the Free state and Northern Cape Championship, the Gauteng Central Championship, and the Gauteng North Championship. Professional career Garcia turned professional at the end of 2013 after she finished T34 at the Lalla Aicha Tour School to earn conditional status for the 2014 Ladies European Tour, where she played in eight events and made two cuts. She returned to Q-School and finished T5, earning a full LET card for the 2015 season. Garcia placed tied second at the U.S. Women's Open Sectional Qualifier in Buckinghamshire, England, and played her first major in the 2014 U.S. Women's Open at Pinehurst Resort.