TWENTY-YEAR-OLD RISING STAR FROM COPENHAGEN

    NANNA MADSEN .... LET star potential

LET Q SCHOOL WINNER NANNA 

MADSEN QUITS SOUTH CAROLINA 

UNIVERSITY AND TURNS PRO

Nanna Madsen, the 20-year-old South Carolina University freshman from Copenhagen, Denmark has turned professional after winning the Ladies European Tour Final Qualifying School at Marrakech, Morocco on Sunday. 
The South Carolina University website says that Nanna had elected to forego her remaining university eligibility and declare her professional golf status.
Madsen went to South Carolina last August rated No 3 in the World Amateur Rankings and finished the autumn tournament series at No. 3 in the Golfstat player ratings after posting the finest fall record by a Gamecock freshman in program history. Madsen earned a top-10 result at all four of the Gamecocks' fall tournaments. At the Mercedes-Benz Collegiate, she collected the first win at a fall tournament by a freshman in South Carolina history. Madsen is one of just three Gamecock freshmen to win a medalist honour. In the fall finale at the Landfall Tradition, Madsen fired a first-round 66, the second-lowest round in school history.
"Nanna had a very successful fall here. She came here third in the world and quickly rose to third in the collegiate ranks," South Carolina head coach Kalen Harris said. 
"She feels that it's time for her to turn pro and wants to take advantage of the opportunity to go to the Ladies European Tour." 
 NATIONS CUP WOMEN'S WINNER 2014
Prior to her outstanding success at the LET Final Q School in Morocco on Sunday, Madsen earned the biggest win of her life in March 2014 when she overcame a strong field to win the European Nations Cup Individual title in Sotogrande, Spain. 
It followed on from finishing leading qualifier in the Spanish Ladies’ Amateur Championship. 
In 2013 Nanna was the No 3 qualifier in the Ladies’ British Amateur Championship at Machynys, South Wales. She lost in the second round of the match-play to Spain's Noemi Jimenez who went on to reach the semi-finals.
Madsen also won the A6 Ladies Open, a professional tournament in Sweden. Further victories in the amateur ranks included the DM Slagspil and European Club Trophy. 

 MORE AMATEUR QUALIFIERS WHO WILL BE TURNING PRO

Others who played as amateurs at the LET Q School and gained Category 8a membership of the tour by finishing in the top 30 were:

Emily Pedersen (Denmark) who finished fourth.

Anne Van Dam (Netherlan ds) who tied for 10th place.

Emma Goddard (England) who finished T13

Csella Rozsa (Hunary) who finished T17.