After 15 years as a professional golfer, Lucie Andre is still in constant pursuit of improvement while competing on the LET Access Series (LETAS).
This week, the Frenchwoman, 38, enters the September 10-12 Hauts de France Open in good form having made nine cuts out of 10 events she has played this season.
Held at Aa Saint-Omer Golf Club, the 13th of 19 events on the 2026 LETAS calendar, this week’s tournament will feature a reduced field of 66 players as it is a mixed event with the men’s Alps Tour.
“I’m really happy to be back, it’s always a nice tournament,” Andre said. “The weather should be fine this year, hopefully. I feel like a bit home when I’m coming back here.
“This year, it’s going to be a bit different because it’s not going to be so warm. Three years ago, it was very dry. This year we are lucky because it was a very dry summer in France, but it’s been raining over the past week and we have grass.
“I have the feeling that my golf game is improving a lot. It’s very consistent. I still have some difficulties to go through, and I’m going to try to stay patient and try my best. The main goal is to win a tournament or make top five.”
Andre already has two LETAS wins to her name, one in 2017 at the Foxconn Czech Ladies Challenge and one in 2023 in Girona, Spain.
“It was the first tournament I won in Czech Republic,” she said. “We didn’t play the last round actually because the clubhouse caught fire because of a battery of a golf cart or something.
“So we played a playoff of three holes, I played even-par and I won the tournament. That was really special, I have to say. It was strange, but it was a nice one.”
Almost a decade later, Andre is still on Tour searching for her third victory against much younger competitors.
About what keeps her going, she said: “I really like the competition. When I’m playing on Access Series, it’s like being with my second family. The atmosphere is very nice, I really like the people around.
“I have the feeling that after Covid, the level improved a lot. I don’t know why, because during Covid, we didn’t have the opportunity to practice, at least in France. The level is really good right now on both the LET and LET Access Series. Something changed.
“The young girls are hitting the ball very far. Now, they are scoring very low. So yeah, I’ll try to keep going with them, but sometimes it’s complicated.”
Majority of the newer generation golfers have adopted AimPoint putting, a data-driven green-reading method that uses your feet to feel the slope percentage of the green and translate it into a precise visual target.
But for Andre, she is still using a more traditional method of green reading, with her eyes. “I’m not using AimPoint, because I’m not feeling anything with my feet, to be honest,” she said.
“Sometimes I regret it a bit because I sometimes I cannot see anything on the green. So it’s like a guess. I try my best, but putting is not the strongest part of my game. Sometimes it’s really good, sometimes it’s not.”
While Andre has already achieved many big milestones, such as playing her first Major at the 2015 British Open, but she still has one thing missing from her CV.
“The main goal is going back to the LET and trying to win on the LET,” she said. “That would be awesome. The goal at the beginning was playing LPGA, but right now I don’t know if it’s still my game because I have to live there, build a different life.
“I’m not so sure I want to play on the LPGA. I’m just going to try to do my best this year and then I will see. I don’t have any plans for the future but I still love playing and competing, so I will keep on going as long as I can.”
Andre will begin her first round of the Hauts de France Open at 1.35pm (local time) from the 10th tee alongside Switzerland’s Victoria Levy and Germany’s Hanna Tauber.
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