So, Hugo Rouillonhis club partner (re)explained to him last spring the many other events that mark the mid-amateur calendar. One in particular was the subject of their discussion. He had been telling me for two years to go to European Mid-Amateur Championship and this year, my schedule allowed me a little more “, relates the person concerned. So, hired in early June in Latvia, Alexandra Vilatte-Farret ended up winning the European title at the end of a great week, giving themselves a second prestigious trophy of the year but above all immediate qualification for theUS Women’s Mid-Amateur.
Unlike his participation, this Atlantic crossing was not a first in the amateur’s career. In 2023, the same Hugo Rouillon already offered him to plant the tee north of New York on the occasion of The Farrellan event organized by the Big Apple league. And there again, her first was crowned with success. But this experience had only relative weight in view of the more demanding meeting that was looming. The forty-year-old had in fact no idea what really awaited her on the track of the Brae Burn Country Club. “ I didn’t know the course or the level of the girls. My only reference point was the level of the players with whom I shared my reconnaissance games. “, says the 206th amateur player in the world. But two days later, at the end of the qualifications on a drawing that suits her because it is short and technical, the analysis was refined. Finishing 13th out of 132 participants, the only French player in the tournament felt that she ” in [avait] still underfoot. »
