France’s Nastasia Nadaud finished the 2025 season in style winning her maiden Ladies European Tour (LET) title and securing her LPGA Tour card for 2026.
The 21-year-old went on a run of excellent form beginning at the Hills Open with a T5 finish in Sweden. After that she teamed up with LET player Michele Thomson on her bag and the results kept coming.
She followed up with another T5 in the Individual competition at the Aramco Houston Championship, a second-place finish at La Sella and then a T9 at the Lacoste Ladies Open de France.
Heading into the season-ending Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España presented by Oysho, Nadaud was ninth in the LET Order of Merit and began the week with a 72 (E) which included an eagle, three birdies, a bogey and a triple bogey.
Round two saw the Frenchwoman fire a round of 65 (-7) with nine birdies and an eagle on her scorecard to move herself into contention, and she produced a 69 (-3) on day three at Real Guadalhorce Club de Golf.
The final round saw Nadaud got off to a blistering start with three birdies and an eagle in her first five holes, she eventually signed for a round of 66 (-6) to win by four strokes and seal her maiden LET victory.
“I don’t really know what to say! It’s been so intense all week, I’m really happy with the outcome,” said Nadaud after her victory. “It’s been a rollercoaster week, but it’s insane. I don’t have the words for right now.
“I think the previous experiences [of finishing second] really helped me. First in Belgium, I had a really stressful shot out of the rough and I stressed out. The same at La Sella, it was stressful and I didn’t know how to handle that. This time I had a stressful back nine from 13 to 16 and I knew how to handle that much better in my head and my game of golf as well.”
With her victory, Nadaud ended up jumping up to third in the LET Order of Merit, claiming the €25,000 bonus prize and flew straight to the United States for LPGA Tour Q-Series.
In Alabama, the 21-year-old produced rounds of 72-68-68-70 at the Crossings Course and Falls Course at RTJ at Magnolia Grove in Mobile Alabama to finish in T10 and secure her LPGA Tour card for 2026.
Nadaud, who won as an amateur on the LET Access Series in 2022 before securing LET status at Q-School, has been improving year on year and in her third season on Tour has had her breakthrough season sealed with a win.
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