Ladies European Tour winner Amy Boulden has detailed her complicated journey towards retirement but admitted the door could still be slightly ajar in terms of making more pro starts further down the line.
The Welsh talent announced she was walking away from pro golf earlier this week, having made her 150th and final LET appearance at the Amundi German Masters back in May.
Off the back of a sublime amateur career – which included wins at the Welsh Ladies Amateur, the Scottish Open Amateur, and both the English and Welsh Open Amateur Stroke Play, plus a call-up to represent GB&I at the 2012 Curtis Cup – Boulden went on to earn LET Rookie of the Year honors in 2014.
In the same year, she triumphed on the LET Access Series before later landing the LET’s VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open in 2020 for her only victory on the top European circuit.
However, that promising start to pro life made way for a frustrating few years on course for Boulden, with the former amateur star admitting she possibly tried to change too much too quickly after her step up to the paid ranks.
Amy Boulden hits driver at the 2012 Curtis Cup
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Speaking to Golf Monthly, she said: “I don’t think I found it difficult at first, especially not in the first couple of years. When I first turned pro, I then won rookie of the year and I didn’t have full status starting that year. But I ended up just finishing top-10 week after week which was getting me in the following event.
“So, looking back, I don’t think I found the transition actually that difficult. It was more after the first couple of years when you then start thinking ‘I should be doing things a bit differently. I should get myself a full-time caddy. I should get, x y and z’ and start doing things ‘more professionally,’ as they say.
“Whereas, maybe what I was doing as an amateur was pretty good and that was working for me. I think maybe it was after the first couple of years on tour, I then started to change things that I necessarily didn’t need to. My swing being one.”
Although Boulden found her way back to form via that victory in Switzerland, she struggled with consistency and injury in the years afterwards, ultimately helping to fuel a growing urge that it might be time to step away from pro golf.
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