Laetitia Beck
| Laetitia Beck לטיסיה בק |
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| — Golfer — | |
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Beck at the 2013 Women's British Open
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| Personal information | |
| Nickname | Laetis |
| Born |
February 5, 1992 Antwerp, Belgium |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Nationality |
 Israel
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| Residence | Caesarea, Israel |
| Career | |
| College | Duke University |
| Turned professional | 2014 |
| Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour |
| Best results in LPGA major championships |
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| ANA Inspiration | DNP |
| Women's PGA C'ship | CUT: 2015, 2016 |
| U.S. Women's Open | DNP |
| Women's British Open | CUT: 2014, 2016 |
| Evian Championship | DNP |
| Medal record | ||
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| Women's golf | ||
| Representing Israel
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| Maccabiah Games | ||
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2009 Israel | Women's individual |
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2013 Israel | Women's individual |
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2013 Israel | Women's team |
Laetitia Beck (Hebrew: לטיסיה בק; born February 5, 1992) is an Israeli professional golfer. She made her professional debut at the 2014 Women's British Open.
Beck has won the Israeli Open Golf Championship five times, including for the first time when she was 12 years of age. She also won gold medals in golf in both the 2009 and 2013 Maccabiah Games.
Beck attended Duke University from 2010–14, where she golfed for the Blue Devils. In 2011 she was voted the Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year, in 2013 and 2014 she was an All-American, and for her college career she had a 73.58 stroke average (10th-best in school history).
She is the first Israeli to compete in an LPGA tournament, and in December 2014 became the first Israeli to qualify as a fully-fledged PGA or LPGA Tour player. She competed for Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Beck was born in Antwerp, Belgium. She is Jewish, and keeps kosher, on and off the road. Her parents are Liliane and Jean Claude, who are keen recreational golfers, and she has one brother (Yoni) and two sisters (Liora and twin sister Olivia).
Beck and her family moved to Caesarea, Israel, a town midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa on the Mediterranean coast, when she was six years old. It is the only city in Israel with an 18-hole golf course, Caesarea Golf Club, and she grew up walking distance from it. She began playing golf there at the Caesarea Golf Academy when she was nine years old. She excelled in both golf and tennis when she was young.
Looking for tougher competition in golf, Beck left for the United States as a teenager. For high school, starting at the age of 14 she attended the IMG Pendleton School in Bradenton, Florida. She graduated in 2010.
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