Justine Fournand

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, 2023)
• SEC Academic Honor Roll (2022, 2023)

2022-23 (SENIOR)

• Finished the year ranked No. 78 in the final Golfstat Player Rankings ; played in every event, two of which were as an individual
• Logged a scoring average of 73.79 (third on the team) with a top-five, top-10 and pair of top-20 finishes ; also posted a 5-5 record in match play
• Helped lead the team to match play for the first time since 2016 at the NCAA Championship (May 19-23) after finishing T-21^st at 1-under with a 72-hole total of 287 ; score T-4^th lowest 72-hole mark in program history with teammate Mathilde Claisse (also shot 287 at 2023 NCAA Championship) and Katelyn Dambaugh (2016 NCAA Championship)
• T-35^th at the SEC Championship (April 12-14) with a 54-hole score of 228 (+12) ; won her semifinal matchup over Texas A&M’s Zoe Slaughter, 2&1
• Went 3-0 at the Wolfpack Match Play (April 3-4) to help the team to a third place finish
• T-18^th in a shortened 36-hole event at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic (March 24-25) ; shot 146 (+2) with rounds of 74 and 72
• Played as an individual at the Nexus Collegiate (Feb. 13-15) and finished just outside the top-20 as she T-21^st at 11-over par (227)
• Finished solo third at the Landfall Tradition (Oct. 28-30), a tournament she won last season ; shot 208 (-8) to lead the team with red numbers in every round including an open 67 (-5)
• T-24^th at the Windy City Collegiate Classic (Oct. 3-4) competing as an individual ; fired a final round 69 (-3) that catapulted her 21 spots up the leaderboard
• T-29^th at the season-opening ANNIKA Intercollegiate (Sept. 12-14) ; shot 221 (+5) with a final round 70 (-2)
• Finished 40^th at 1-over at The Women’s Amateur Championship (June 20-25) to advance to match play ; fell in the round of 64 to Germany’s Helen Briem

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 68^th at the NCAA Championship (May 20-25) ; logged 72-hole score of 306 (+18)
• T-18^th 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-15^th 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-25^th 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-8^th 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-2^nd 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