The Amundi Women Talent Program aims to sponsor young women golfers who are starting their career. To date, Amundi has 3 teams: Europe Amundi Team, US Amundi Team and Asia Amundi Team.
In early January 2023, Amundi unveiled the new edition of the Amundi Team Europe as part of the Amundi Women’s Talent Program.
The new team will be composed of Sará Kousková (Czech Republic) and Chiara Noja (Germany), both winners of the Amundi Czech Ladies Challenge (respectively in the 2021 and 2022 tournaments), Charlotte Liautier (France), Kim Metraux (Switzerland) and Morgane Metraux (Switzerland). Click here, for more information about our previous class
The second edition of the Europe Amundi Team replaces the first team launched in 2021, supporting five young women golfers for a period of two years and helping them to emerge on the international golfing scene: Camille Chevalier (France), Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso (Italy), Karolin Lampert (Germany), Lucie Malchirand (France) and Luna Sobron Galmes (Spain). (Click here, for more information about our previous class)
Amundi’s investment in women’s golf has continued to grow during 2022, firstly with the creation of our US and Asian teams, but also through our support of leading golf competitions. The Amundi German Masters marks the return to Germany of a high level women’s golf tournament. Amundi also became a premium sponsor of the KPMG Women’s Irish Open. The arrival in 2023 of the second edition of the European Amundi Team, which includes five young players with already promising track records, demonstrates our long-term commitment to women's golf, and shares in its quest for precision, performance and consistency as an asset manager every day.
Sara started her professional golf career on the Ladies European Tour Access Series, where she was ranked number one. This enabled her to secure a Ladies European Tour card for the 2023 season. She won her first professional victory at the Santander Golf Tour Málaga, two more victories on the LETAS and a second place at the Amundi Czech Ladies Challenge in 2022.
Sara was born in Karlovy Vary and played golf at the Prague City Golf Club. She pursued a college golf career at the University of Texas.
Charlotte turned professional in 2021 and is currently 81st in the Race to Costa Del Sol ranking. During her amateur career, she won three international titles: the Swiss International 2016, the French International 2020 and the Italian International 2021. In October 2021, she won her first professional victory at the Santander Golf Tour Barcelona, playing as an amateur. Since the start of her LET career in 2022, she has had two Top 10 finishes and a second place at the Aramco Team Series - Bangkok.
Charlotte is originally from Reunion Island but grew up in Paris, where she took up golf at the age of 12 in her home club of St-Nom-La-Bretèche.
Kim has been playing on the Ladies European Tour since 2018. As an amateur, Kim had a successful college career playing for Florida State University. In 2020, Kim took part in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. In her four years on the Ladies European Tour, Kim has achieved six Top 10 finishes and is currently ranked 38th in the Race to Costa Del Sol ranking.
Kim was born and raised in Cully, Switzerland. She also studied at Florida State University.
Morgane secured her LPGA Tour Card in 2022 and achieved good performances in both the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour this year. With her double membership, she won the Ladies Italian Open on the LET and finished second at the end of the season at the Andalucía Open de España. Morgane will continue to play on the LPGA Tour in 2023 with her 85th place in the CME rankings.
Morgane was born and raised in Cully, Switzerland. Following in her sister’s footsteps, she played college golf at Florida State University where she finished 20th at the 2016 NCAA Golf National Championships.
Chiara was just 16 when she secured her card on the Ladies European Tour. In 2022, she was ranked 2nd in the Ladies European Tour Access Series. Chiara won her first Ladies European Tour event at the fifth round of the Aramco Series in Jeddah.
Chiara is originally from Berlin, Germany, but moved to England when she was 7 years old. She currently lives and trains in Dubai.
Lauren Walsh is an elite Irish golfer and Youth Olympian who has been playing on the Ladies European Tour since 2023.
At 18, Lauren earned a golf scholarship to Wake Forest University where she spent 4 years studying Mathematical Business and become the ‘Wake Forest Scholar Athlete of the year 2022-2023’
She is now an ambassador for the Annika Foundation after a successful amateur career including completing in the Curtis Cup, Youth Olympics and across the collegiate circuit in the USA.
Lauren turned pro in the summer of 2023 and earned Category 16 status on the LET in 2024.
She started playing golf at the age of 10 with her older sister at her local club Castlewarden in Ireland.