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Lally Segard (Dorothée Sonia Segard) was born on 4 April, 1921 in Paris, France, is a French amateur golfer (1921–2018). Discover Lally Segard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 97 years old?

Popular As Dorothée Sonia Segard
Occupation N/A
Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 4 April 1921
Birthday 4 April
Birthplace Paris, France
Date of death 2018
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality France

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Who Is Lally Segard's Husband?

Her husband is Vicomte Jacques Henri Edmund Eduard de Rafélis de Saint-Sauveur (1939–1969) Patrick Segard (1970–1979)

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Husband Vicomte Jacques Henri Edmund Eduard de Rafélis de Saint-Sauveur (1939–1969) Patrick Segard (1970–1979)
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Lally Segard Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Lally Segard worth at the age of 97 years old? Lally Segard’s income source is mostly from being a successful golfer. She is from France. We have estimated Lally Segard's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1896

Segard was born in Paris and the oldest of three siblings of a Greek (born in Marseilles, France) father, André Marino Vagliano (1896–1971) and an American mother, Barbara Frances Gallatin Allen (1897–1951), married 1920 in New York.

1921

Dorothée Sonia "Lally" Segard (née Vagliano) (4 April 1921 – 3 March 2018), also known as Vicomtesse de Saint Sauveur, was a French amateur golfer.

1925

Her father won the French Open Amateur Championship in 1925 and the French Close Amateur in 1930 and 1931.

He was also captain of the French National team and on the board of the French Golf Federation where he became the initiator of the PGA of France.

1927

Her brother Alexander (1927–2003) emigrated to the United States in 1940 and later reached a position as executive vice president at JP Morgan & Co.

1935

In 1935, the two sisters, 13 and 14 years of age, competed abroad for the first time, when they took part in the British Girls Amateur Championship at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England.

1937

In May 1937, Segard was, for the first time, part of the French team, with her mother as the team captain, competing against Great Britain and Ireland in the, at the time annual, match, that many years later came to bear her family's name, the Vagliano Trophy.

She came to represent France ten times and the Continent of Europe three times, since the format of the event was changed, in the match.

In September 1937, she was back in England and won the British Girls Amateur Championship, defeating the two years older title holder Peggy Edwards, by 5 and 4 in the 18 hole final.

1939

In 1939, she won her first French Ladies' Close Championship title, beating Simone Lacoste, wife of tennis great René Lacoste, 4 and 3 at Segard's home course Morfontaine.

She married Vicomte Jacques Henri Edmund Eduard de Rafélis de Saint-Sauveur (born 1912) on 22 December 1939 and was known under the name of Vicomtesse de Saint-Sauveur during her competitive career.

1940

They had two children, a daughter, Evelyne, born 1940, and a boy, Alain, born in 1942.

Both of her children pre-deceased her, but she had several grandchildren.

1950

Segard won many important amateur titles, including the British Ladies Amateur in 1950, beating Jessie Valentine by 3 and 2 in the final at Royal County Down, Newcastle, Northern Ireland.

She won the French Ladies' Open Amateur Championship four times and also won the open amateur championships of Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Benelux and Luxembourg.

1959

In 1959, he donated the trophy for the biennial match, named the Vagliano Trophy, between female amateur teams; Great Britain and Ireland playing against the Continent of Europe.

Segard's mother was also an elite golfer and become captain of the France National Ladies team.

Segard played both tennis and golf and was inspired by her fifteen months younger sister Sonia to develop her golf.

The two sisters learned golf at Compiègne, 80 kilometers north of Paris, before being members at Golf de Chantilly and Golf de Morfontaine, both also situated north of Paris.

At Morfontaine, Segard came to brake the ladies' course record, with a score of 73, when she was 16 years old.

She represented France four times at the European Ladies' Team Championship and was on the winning team at the first two times the championship was played, 1959 and 1961.

1964

Along with Mrs. Henri Prunaret from United States, Segard initiated and planned the first women's world amateur team championship, the Espirito Santo Trophy, held in 1964 at Golf de Saint Germain, outside Paris, France.

She asked her friends Ricardo and Silvia Espirito Santo, who were Portuguese bankers, to donate a trophy for the event, which they did.

She was the French non-playing captain in these championships from 1964 until 1972.

The French team of Claudine Cros, Catherine Lacoste and Brigitte Varangot won the inaugural championship in 1964 under the captaincy of Segard.

From 1964 Segard was president of the Ladies section of the World Amateur Golf Council, later known as the International Golf Federation, retiring in 1994, when hosting of the Espirito Santo Trophy tournament came back to France after 30 years and was played at Le Golf National, south of Paris.

She also served the French Golf Federation as Vice-President for many years.

At the 30 year anniversary of the 1964 Espirito Santo Trophy, an engraved commemorative silver heart jewel, signed by 19 of the all-time greatest French female golfers, including Catherine Lacoste, Brigitte Varangot, Anne-Marie Palli and Patricia Meunier-Lebouc, was offered to Segard.

1967

Despite not competing during World War II, she was winner of the championship six times and was runner-up as late as 1967, 46 years old.

1969

They divorced in 1969.

1970

In October 1970, she married her second husband, Patrick Segard, who died in 1979, aged 52.

2015

In February 2015, Segard became one of seven women, invited as the first female honorary members of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.

The other six women were HRH Princess Anne, Dame Laura Davies, Renee Powell, Belle Robertson, Louise Suggs and Annika Sörenstam.

They joined the existing 15 male honorary members, whom included President George H. W. Bush, Peter Thomson CBE, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player.

She was also an Honorary Member of her original home club Morfontaine, of Golf de Saint-Cloud and of Golf de Chantilly.

She was an Honorary Member of the European Golf Association.

She was Honorary President of The European Association of Golf Historians & Collectors, EAGHC.

She received national recognition in France, awarded Officer of France's National Order of Merit and Commander of the Order of Sporting Merit.

The French Senior Ladies' Championship is named the Lally Segard Trophy.

2018

Segard died at age 96 on 3 March 2018, in Paris, and her funeral ceremony was held on 13 March in the American Cathedral of Paris at Avenue Georges V.