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{{Short description|French amateur golfer}}
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[[File:Simone de la Chaume 1929.jpg|thumb|Simone de la Chaume in 1929]]
'''Simone Thion de la Chaume''' (24 November 1908 – 4 September 2001) was a French amateur golfer.

In 1924, she became the first foreign player to win the [[Girls Amateur Championship]] and in 1927 the first to win the [[British Ladies Amateur]], then the most prestigious tournament in British and European ladies' golf and an event her daughter, [[Catherine Lacoste]], would also win 42 years later.<ref name=bio/>

At the 1927 [[U.S. Women's Amateur]], she lost in the third round to former three-time champion, [[Alexa Stirling]].

While attending a [[Davis Cup]] match, Simone de la Chaume met the French [[tennis]] star [[René Lacoste]]. They married in 1929 and had three sons and a daughter. The Lacostes would go on to form the [[Lacoste (company)|Lacoste]] company and build a sportswear empire. They also founded the Golf de Chantaco club in [[Saint-Jean-de-Luz]] in the [[Pyrénées-Atlantiques]] [[département in France|département]] of France near [[Biarritz]].<ref name=bio/>

Simone Lacoste died in [[Saint-Jean-de-Luz]] in 2001.<ref name=bio/>

==Principal victories==
* 1924: [[Girls Amateur Championship]]
* 1927: [[British Ladies Amateur]]
* 1930, 1935, 1938, 1939: [[French International Ladies Golf Championship]]
* 1936, 1937, 1939: [[French Ladies National Championship]]

==References==
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<ref name=bio>[https://www.apgf.fr/Simone-Thion-de-la-Chaume-1908.html Simone Thion de la Chaume 1908–2001]. l’Association Patrimoniale du Golf Français</ref>
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