Mathilde Claisse

AWARDS/HONORS

• Second Team All-SEC (2022)
• WGCA All-American Scholar (2020, 2021, 2022)
• SEC Academic Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022)

2021-22

• Started all 11 stroke play events and was a part of a program record five tournament victories
• Tallied a 74.06 scoring average six top-20 finishes (third-most on the team) and a pair of top-10s ; shot par or better nine times
• Led the team with a T-40^th finish at the NCAA Championship (May 20-25) ; shot 297 (+9) for a 72-hole total and was just 2-over the final two days on a difficult layout at Grayhawk Golf Club
• T-38^th at the NCAA Tallahassee regional with a 54-hole score of 230 (+14)
• Finished T-15^th at the SEC Championship (April 13-15) shooting 73 (+1) each round for a 54-hole total of 219 (+3) ; fell 1-up to Alabama’s Angelica Moresco in the match play quarterfinals
• Went 2-0-1 at the Wolfpack Match Play (April 3-4) helping the team to a 3-0 record and its fifth victory of the season
• T-11^th at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic (March 25-27) helping the team to its fourth win of the season
• Led the Gamecocks with a T-6^th finish at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate (Feb. 28-March 2) ; shot a season-best score of 214 (+1) with back-to-back, 1-under 70s in the final two rounds
• Led Carolina with a T-14^th finish at the first event of the spring, the Moon Golf Invitational (Feb. 20-21) ; shot 216 (E)
• T-8^th in the stroke play portion of the Stephens Cup (Oct. 18-20) ; defeated LSU’s Alden Wallace 1-up in the championship match, which the Tigers won 4-1
• T-20^th with a 54-hole score of 218 (+2) at the season-opening ANNIKA Intercollegiate, a seven-shot win for the Gamecocks in a strong field

2020-21

• Appeared in nine tournaments for the Gamecocks, finishing the season with a 73.69 scoring average, the fifth lowest sophomore scoring average in program history
• Tied the lowest round of her Carolina career with a second round 4-under (68) at the NCAA Louisville Regional on her way to tying for 24^th
• Carded the best score of her South Carolina career with a 206 (-10) in stroke play at the SEC Championship, posting rounds of 68, 69, and 68 to take eighth in the tournament
• Won both of her matches at the East Lake Cup, and finished tied for 15th in the stroke play portion of the prestigious event
• Just missed out on her first career top-10 finish, tying for 12th at The Ally, her career best finish, with an even par 216
• Made her season debut at the Blessings Collegiate Invitational, notched four birdies in her second round on her way to a 36th place finish

2019-20

• Appeared in all six tournaments for the Gamecocks in a shortened season due to COVID
• Finished the season with a 73.88 scoring average, the fifth lowest for a freshman in program history
• Notched her lowest score of the season at the Tar Heel Invitational (217, +1)
• Tied her lowest score (217, +1) and earned her best finish of the season (T-13) to help the Gamecocks win the Landfall Tradition
• Shot her lowest round of the season (70, -2) at the Tar Heel Invitational, tied that score at the Landfall Tradition
• Finished the season with five rounds of par or better

PRIOR TO SOUTH CAROLINA

• Took second at the Biarritz Cup in July 2019
• Finished as the Runner-Up at the European Ladies Amateur Team Championship in 2018
• Competed for France at the 2018 Youth Olympics
• Member of the French National Team where she participated in the European Girls Team Championships and the European Ladies Team Championships
• 2017 Solheim Cup Team participant

PERSONAL

• Born March 6, 2000
• Daughter of Dominique and Franck Claisse
• Chose South Carolina because of the coaching staff, the program itself, the academic opportunities at the University and the location itself