Rebecca Dawn Brewerton (born 20 October 1982) is a Welsh

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and a member of the

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and the

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Amateur career

Brewerton was born in

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, Wales. She had a successful amateur career. She was Welsh Girls Champion in 1997 and 1998 and Welsh Ladies' Amateur Champion in 1999 and 2001. She won the

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in 1999 and 2002, a year she also won the

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Brewerton represented Great Britain and Ireland in the

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in 2000, and the Vagliano Trophy in 2001 and 2003. She was in line to be selected to the 2002 Curtis Cup squad but was not selected for the final team. She played in the 2002

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World Amateur Golf Team Championships and was named as the Daily Telegraph Golfer of the year. Brewerton received two invitations to play on the

in 2003. She held the halfway lead at the Tenerife Ladies Open in May finally finishing the tournament in second place and was beaten into second place again at the Wales WPGA Championship by a 74-foot birdie putt on the final green by Shani Waugh. Brewerton turned professional after she finished 13th at the 2003

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Professional career

In her 2004 rookie season, Brewerton was second in the Ryder Cup Wales Rookie of the Year competition and finished eighth on the LET Order of Merit with four top ten finishes. She had four more top tens in 2005 which gave her a 19th-place finish on the money list. In 2006, she had five top tens and finished 15th on the New Star Money List. In 2005, together with Becky Morgan, Brewerton finished sixth in the

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in South Africa. The pair improved on that performance in 2006 finishing third, added an eighth-place finish in 2007 and a sixth place in 2008. Brewerton's maiden professional victory was a three stroke win at the 2007

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. This, plus four other top ten finishes, earned her a place on the 2007 European

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Team, the first Welsh golfer to play on a Solheim Cup team. She placed second in the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year in 2007, and was voted The Towergate Professional Player of the Year. Brewerton's second LET victory was at the 2009 Open De España Femenino. This earned her the final place in the Evian Masters the following week which she led for three of the four days before finishing 13th, the highest finish by an LET player. These performances led to her selection as a captain's pick for the 2009 European Solheim Cup team and to the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year Award shortlist. In December 2010, she finished 20th at the Final LPGA Qualifying Tournament to earn membership on the LPGA Tour for 2011 with low playing priority.

Professional wins (4)

Ladies European Tour wins (2)

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

(1)

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

(1) Open De España Femenino

Other wins

*2011 (1) Tenerife Ladies Match Play (unofficial Ladies European Tour) *2021 (1)

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at Brockenhurst Manor

Ladies European Tour career summary

*Official as of 20 September 2009.

Team appearances

Amateur * European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Wales):

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

(representing Great Britain & Ireland):

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

* Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2001, 2003 (winners) * European Lady Junior's Team Championship (representing Wales): 2002 *

(representing Great Britain & Ireland):

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

Professional *

(representing Europe):

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(representing Wales): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

Solheim Cup record

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brewerton, Becky Welsh female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers LPGA Tour golfers Solheim Cup competitors for Europe People educated at Ysgol Glan Clwyd Sportspeople from St Asaph 1982 births Living people