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Ariane Klotz Enjoying First Season on the Ladies European Tour
8/1/2025 2:47:00 PM | Women's Golf
NEWARK, Del. – University of Delaware women's golf alum Ariane Klotz last played for the Blue & Gold in the spring of 2020. After finishing one of the best careers by a UD golfer, Klotz took a short hiatus to earn her master's degree and has recently begun her professional golf career in Europe and is currently competing on the Ladies European Tour (LET).
Klotz, who is originally from the island New Caledonia, a French territory in the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia, enjoyed a decorated career at Delaware. She was named the CAA Rookie of the Year in 2017 following her first season and earned All-CAA First Team honors in each of the next three years. She led the Blue Hens in stroke average all four seasons and ranks second in program history with a 74.20 career stroke average.
She graduated from Delaware with a degree in civil engineering. After graduation, Klotz moved to Europe to pursue her master's degree and spent two and a half years at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and then worked a six-month internship to complete her degree in September 2023.
"I wanted a backup that was good enough to get me a job anywhere in Europe, basically anywhere in the world," Klotz said. "I had the U.S. degree, and I wanted a European one. And I never lived in Europe before because I was on my island and then I went straight to the U.S."
During those three years, Klotz continued to play golf. Her amateur ranking from her time at Delaware was good enough to enter her into several non-professional tournaments. Following the completion of her master's degree, Klotz began training hard again and entered into Q school for the LET in December 2023 in Morocco.
"I went through Q school, which was pre-qualifying for three days and then five more days with the goal to get on the LET, which is the main tour in Europe," said Klotz. "But I didn't make the cut the last day so I was not in contention for the full LET card. But I got like the full card for Access, which is the second division in Europe."
Klotz began her first professional season in 2024 on the Ladies European Tour Access Series (LETAS), which is the tour below the LET. It is the equivalent of the Epson Tour, which plays just below the LPGA. She played in 14 tournaments in 2024 and recorded four top-20 finishes, finishing in the top eight in the final rankings which earned her a full LET tour card for 2025.
After an up-and-down start to the season, Klotz has come on strong as the calendar turned to summer. She opened June with back-to-back top-10 finishes at the Tenerife Women's Open and the Hulencourt Women's Open and then closed the month with a 19th-place finish at the Amundi German Masters.
"I think it's probably like a combo of several factors going, because I had a pretty rough start this year," said Klotz. "I had a lot of missed cuts, which was a first for me. I was not used to not playing in the weekend and shooting very higher than usual, so I kind of did like a reset and self-questioning about how I practice and if I was putting in the hours and how I was doing it, and before June, kind of reset the way I practice. I put in a lot of hours and tried to work on the mental stuff to try to focus on the right things on the course, because golf is such a mental game."
Like so many golfers and athletes before her, Klotz had to make the adjustment from college to the professional level. No longer playing in the team format with four other Blue Hens out on the course with her, or a coach able to follow along and give advice, Klotz has had to learn to do it on her own. Nearing the end of her second pro season, Klotz is not the new kid on the tour anymore and feels more comfortable with her peers on the golf course.
"I feel like the main difference is that professional goals you're kind of like by yourself and you're the only one that can hold yourself accountable," Klotz said. "So you have to have discipline and like the willpower to like make yourself do things when you don't want to you have no one no one to scream at you and be like you're running like three laps if you're late to workouts.
"It does take a lot of patience and trusting the process like the thing we hear again and again and again. I've heard it from Brendon and Patty so many times."
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Klotz, who is originally from the island New Caledonia, a French territory in the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia, enjoyed a decorated career at Delaware. She was named the CAA Rookie of the Year in 2017 following her first season and earned All-CAA First Team honors in each of the next three years. She led the Blue Hens in stroke average all four seasons and ranks second in program history with a 74.20 career stroke average.
She graduated from Delaware with a degree in civil engineering. After graduation, Klotz moved to Europe to pursue her master's degree and spent two and a half years at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and then worked a six-month internship to complete her degree in September 2023.
"I wanted a backup that was good enough to get me a job anywhere in Europe, basically anywhere in the world," Klotz said. "I had the U.S. degree, and I wanted a European one. And I never lived in Europe before because I was on my island and then I went straight to the U.S."
During those three years, Klotz continued to play golf. Her amateur ranking from her time at Delaware was good enough to enter her into several non-professional tournaments. Following the completion of her master's degree, Klotz began training hard again and entered into Q school for the LET in December 2023 in Morocco.
"I went through Q school, which was pre-qualifying for three days and then five more days with the goal to get on the LET, which is the main tour in Europe," said Klotz. "But I didn't make the cut the last day so I was not in contention for the full LET card. But I got like the full card for Access, which is the second division in Europe."
Klotz began her first professional season in 2024 on the Ladies European Tour Access Series (LETAS), which is the tour below the LET. It is the equivalent of the Epson Tour, which plays just below the LPGA. She played in 14 tournaments in 2024 and recorded four top-20 finishes, finishing in the top eight in the final rankings which earned her a full LET tour card for 2025.
After an up-and-down start to the season, Klotz has come on strong as the calendar turned to summer. She opened June with back-to-back top-10 finishes at the Tenerife Women's Open and the Hulencourt Women's Open and then closed the month with a 19th-place finish at the Amundi German Masters.
"I think it's probably like a combo of several factors going, because I had a pretty rough start this year," said Klotz. "I had a lot of missed cuts, which was a first for me. I was not used to not playing in the weekend and shooting very higher than usual, so I kind of did like a reset and self-questioning about how I practice and if I was putting in the hours and how I was doing it, and before June, kind of reset the way I practice. I put in a lot of hours and tried to work on the mental stuff to try to focus on the right things on the course, because golf is such a mental game."
Like so many golfers and athletes before her, Klotz had to make the adjustment from college to the professional level. No longer playing in the team format with four other Blue Hens out on the course with her, or a coach able to follow along and give advice, Klotz has had to learn to do it on her own. Nearing the end of her second pro season, Klotz is not the new kid on the tour anymore and feels more comfortable with her peers on the golf course.
"I feel like the main difference is that professional goals you're kind of like by yourself and you're the only one that can hold yourself accountable," Klotz said. "So you have to have discipline and like the willpower to like make yourself do things when you don't want to you have no one no one to scream at you and be like you're running like three laps if you're late to workouts.
"It does take a lot of patience and trusting the process like the thing we hear again and again and again. I've heard it from Brendon and Patty so many times."
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