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Justine Fournand

  • class Senior
  • Hometown Erstein, France
  • Previous School FAU
  • class Senior
  • Hometown Erstein, France
  • Previous School FAU

Justine Fournand Bio

AWARDS/HONORS

  • Landfall Tradition Champion (Oct. 29-31, 2021) – fifth career win and first at South Carolina
  • 2021 C-USA Golfer of the Year ; 2021 First Team All-C-USA
  • 2020 C-USA Freshman of the Year
  • WGCA All-American Scholar (2022)
  • SEC Academic Honor Roll (2022)

2021-22 (JUNIOR)

  • Started all 11 stroke play events and helped the team to a program record five wins in her first season in Garnet and Black
  • Had four top-20 finishes overall and a pair of top-10s while logging a scoring average of 74.76 ; shot par or better eight times in 33 rounds played
  • Finished 68th at the NCAA Championship (May 20-25) ; logged 72-hole score of 306 (+18)
  • T-18th at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional (May 10-12) with a four-under 68 in the final round to help the team finish second and punch its ticket to Grayhawk for the NCAA Championship
  • T-15th at the SEC Championship (April 13-15) ; shot 219 (+3) at Greystone ; fell 1-up in 22 holes to Alabama’s Emilie Overas in the quarterfinals of match play
  • Was dominant in a team victory at the Wolfpack Match Play ; went 3-0 in her matches winning, 6&5, 6&4 and 6&5
  • Finished T-25th in back-to-back events helping the team to wins at the Valspar Invitational (March 12-13) and the Liz Murphey collegiate Classic (March 25-27)
  • Season was highlighted by a victory at the Landfall Tradition (Oct. 29-31) in the fall ; shot season-best score of 208 (-8) with a career-best score of 67 (-5) in the opening round ; trailing by two shots with three holes remaining, finished birdie-birdie-eagle to win by three strokes ; team was dominant, winning by 12 shots for its second victory of the fall slate
  • T-8th at the Stephens Cup (Oct. 18-20) with a 54-hole total of 223 (+7) ; fell 3&1 to LSU’s Elsa Svensson in the title match
  • Made her Gamecock debut at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate (Sept. 13-15) ; shot 71 (-1) and 72 (E) the first two rounds en route to helping Carolina to a season-opening win

PRIOR TO SOUTH CAROLINA

  • Spent first two seasons of collegiate career (2019-21), staring for FAU where she won four times in two seasons of competition (T-2nd most career wins in school history)
  • 2021 C-USA Golfer of the Year and 2021 First Team All-C-USA ; became the third FAU player to win conference golfer of the year honors and the first to do so in C-USA
  • Her 71.67 season scoring average in 2020-21 was the lowest in program history and first sub-72 average ; set program records in Par 3 (3.0526), Par 4 (4.0406) and Par 5 (4.7764) scoring
  • Became just the second player in program history to earn a spot in NCAA Regionals in 2021
  • Finished third in the C-USA Championship (April 19, 2021), the best conference championship finish in program history ; logged two wins in the regular season at the Low Country Intercollegiate (March 13-14, 2021) and Brickyard Collegiate (April 5-6, 2021) ; also won a pair of C-USA Golfer of the Week awards
  • Posted four sub-70 rounds in 2020-21 including the second-best round in program history, a 67 in Round 2 of the Low Country Intercollegiate
  • Named 2020 C-USA Freshman of the Year after logging a 72.90 scoring average with a win and top-25 finishes in in five of her seven starts ; shot par or better in nine rounds, the second best single-season mark in program history
  • First career win came at the Pat Bradley Invitational (Oct. 20-22, 2019) ; shot a career-best score of 205 (-11) with rounds of 69, 68 and 70
  • Logged her first career hole-in-one at the Florida Gators Invitational

PERSONAL

  • Daughter of Muriel and Vincent Fournand
  • Psychology major
CAREER STATISTICS
Year Events Rounds Low 54 Low 18 Par/Better Top 5 Top 10 Top 20 Strokes Average
2019-20* 7 21 205 68 9 2 2 3 1,531 72.90
2020-21* 7 18 213 67 11 4 4 6 1,290 71.67
2021-22 11 33 208 67 8 1 2 4 2,467 74.76
2022-23
Total 25 72 205 67 28 7 8 13 5,288 73.26

*at FAU