It’s never boring with Denmark’s Natacha Host Husted.
On the course, the LET Access Series (LETAS) graduate is a showman. Every great shot or disappointment is met with a unique “Natacha reaction” and her energy will be missed on LETAS.
Host Husted is excited to embark on a new chapter in her career on the LET but before she does let’s get to know the graduate….
The Dane joined the tour during our second event, the Montauban Ladies Open after deciding to quit college golf at Ole Miss to turn professional, earlier than others expected.
A debut round of 69 in France caught everyone’s attention but it wasn’t until the fourth event, the PGA Championship Gothenburg that Host Husted became one to watch.
After a week plagued with difficult conditions, Denmark’s Natacha Host Husted fired rounds of 70, 72 and 69 to secure her first professional win and she became the only player to finish under par that week.
Reflecting on her debut victory, Host Husted said: “The win made me realize that my game was in a good spot. I was able to compete, and I stopped questioning everything.
“The win in Sweden reminded me that I’m good enough to be out there and out here playing.”
After the win, Host Husted showed no signs of slowing down and made four consecutive top 10s, two in the top five.
However, following her first victory, Host Husted set her standards higher and became more critical of her game despite great performances.
“I think the standards for myself were just a little bit higher than before Sweden.
“I had four top 10s and didn’t feel like I was playing my best. It was just solid.
“When my game started trending in the wrong direction towards the end, I think that just stressed me out a little bit more.”
Host Husted finished the season with three top 35s and one missed cut at the Lavaux Ladies Open, a tournament she originally didn’t plan to play.
“I wasn’t planning on playing that week. I ended up playing it because I felt a little bit of a pressure to do it and earn points.
“Then I ended up missing the cut so I might as well have stayed at home.
“I’d never been in this situation before and obviously it is my first season as a professional.
“Now I feel like I’m better equipped to handle situations like that because I’ve lived through them now.”
After receiving her 2025 LET card at the conclusion of the final event, the Calatayud Ladies Open it took several days for Host Husted to process the news.
“I couldn’t believe it because I think because the finish I had to the season. Sometimes we plant weird ideas in my own heads, and I didn’t think I deserved it.
“I put the hard work in during the middle of the season and I just hadn’t realised it.”
But now her fantastic achievement has sunk in and the graduate is excited for a new adventure on the LET.
“Overall what I’m most excited for is visiting some new destinations. I’ve never been to Africa.
“Africa and Asia are what I’m most excited about, going to parts of the world that I haven’t visited before.
“Next year I do think the longer stretches will be hard. I feel like my game is just not great after three weeks on the road but that’s part of the job and I will get used to it.”
Host Husted will however miss some of the people she’s met or knew from college who have impacted her rookie season positively.
“My favourite part of the rookie season is all the friends I have made out on tour. Every group, every new pairing I got into, I earned new friends.
“That was the best part of being on tour and I never really expected that.
“The friendliness has been a huge part of my success.”
Host Husted first got into golf through family. Her older brothers and parents all played so it was destined for her to pick up a club early at age five.
“I don’t want to say I got forced into it but I guess when the whole family plays you join in naturally.
“I took to golf quickly because I think as I grew older that I wasn’t good at a lot of sports. I wasn’t good at badminton or soccer and I found it was the opposite in golf.
“I always say it’s because in golf the ball doesn’t move. I’m the one making the ball move. In other sports you play against an opponent, have a moving ball makes things more difficult.”
Showing talent from a young age, Host Husted eventually moved from a smaller club to Smorum Golf Klubb, home of LETAS’ event, the Smorum Ladies Open.
The course is also the home of Solheim cup star Emily Pedersen and LPGA player Nanna Madsen. It was joining the club which sparked Host Husted’s own ambitions to become a professional.
“When I joined Smorum I saw some really, really good players and tour players at that point as well.
“I think that just inspired me and made me realise that I was on a career path as well.”
Outside of golf, Host Husted enjoys a quiet life and has recently found a new passion for reading, after starting a mini book club with Ole Miss friends and colleagues.
“With the Ole Miss girls we have started our book era and have been reading a lot. We’ve started a mini book club and all that.
“I’ve found reading is a really nice way for me to de-stress and not look at a screen for once.”
Alongside her coach, Nikki Hansen, Host Husted is now preparing to pick up the clubs again and put the hard work in.
“I will likely go somewhere warmer, so we don’t have to be indoors for three months. We have a camp with the national team in January as well.
“I’ve learnt so many lessons this year. The biggest lesson is that I’ve got two sides. One side being that when I bring my good stuff, good attitude and be the best version of myself I can compete on an elite level.
“On the flip side, when I don’t bring the best version of myself, I struggle mentally.
“I have two sides of the coin, and I need to find the balance.”
