Starting at the age of four, Delon was drawn to the sport of golf for its ability to refuse perfection even to its most accomplished participants. “You are so frustrated all the time,” Delon said. “But it’s also when you hit a good shot, you are so happy. If you win a tournament, you’re so happy. Even if you win, you have something to improve.”
Delon’s career before Virginia Tech was everything except smooth. Over a decade after she first picked up a club, Delon would undergo back surgery in 2019 at the age of 15, sidelining her for a year when her game was starting to truly click. Combine this with the COVID-19 pandemic and the French transfer wouldn’t see the green for extended amounts of time.
“It was almost two years without competing,” Delon said. “It was really hard.”
Delon described the back surgery as the hardest moment of her life. As she was surrounded by family, a long line of French golf coaches and her closest friends, however, the experience turned into something far more profound than she could have ever imagined.
“I was surrounded by really, really good people. I had good coaches in France, [and] they help me to see that everything was possible [after the surgery]. The people around me in France are so amazing that every day I want to put the French flag on top of the leaderboard.”
Since her back surgery in 2019, Delon has had little trouble doing just that. The French golfer soared to a title win in the 2024 French Ladies Championship, winning five straight matches en route to the tournament title. In the 36-hole final, the golfer posted 12 birdies – including seven on the first 18.
“That was really, really nice for me,” Delon said. “Representing my country is so important to me. Doing it in front of my family was just amazing.”
Perhaps one of the most impressive milestones in Delon’s already storied career came earlier this month. In the Advanced Golf Partners Collegiate at Hammond Creek Golf Club in Palm City, Florida, Delon and the Hokies blitzed through the competition, earning the outright victory over 17 other Division I women’s golf teams. It was the third time Virginia Tech Women’s Golf has won a title and the second time the title was claimed outright by the Hokies.
101 golfers competed in the competition. Delon stood alone at the top.
Delon’s first-round –7 was the best any golfer shot in any of the three rounds in the competition. When asked if she had any…
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