When Cecilie Leth-Nissen is off the golf course, she is most likely burying herself in a Barbri legal handbook.
After finishing in third place at the LET Access Series (LETAS) season-opening Madaef Golfs Ladies Open in Morocco, the Danish 23-year-old golfer took a two-month competitive break from the sport.
Leth-Nissen, who has played on the LETAS since 2022, is currently studying in law school while trying to earn her LET card for next season.
“I don’t do much other than play golf and study law,” she said. “That’s my balance. When I play golf, it’s a break from law school and when I study law, it’s a break from golf. It’s pretty nice actually to have like a break from each other.
“You have to have the same focus in law as in golf. I think most people are a little bit surprised because it’s two very time-consuming things to do. I want to see where golf takes me, but if not, I have a pretty good back up option.”
Despite missing three events, Leth-Nissen still sits in 13th position on the LETAS Order of Merit standings.
Now on her summer break, she comes into the June 19-21 Ladies German Challenge powered by VcG, held at Golf-Club Bergisch Land in Wuppertal, Germany, with a refreshed mindset.
She will be competing amongst a field of 132 players comprising 31 nationalities and 18 local German players.
“I don’t have high expectations for any performance this week,” she said. “I think it’s going to be more of a tournament where I focus on the process, just try to hit good shots and have a good plan for how I want to play the course.
“I think the course is in a really good condition this week. The green’s are all pretty good but it’s very hilly, up and down, so it’s gonna be a challenge. I think it’s going to be the back nine, because you have three par-5s, where people got to go low.
“In Morocco, I was very good at staying in the present and then just hit one shot at a time. I try to take a deep breath and talk to somebody I play with, think of something nice or play a song in my head to stay in the present. I’ll try and use some of the same mental points from that week.”
On her LETAS debut in 2022 in Denmark, she clinched the Smorum Ladies Open at her home club.
“It was my home course, and I didn’t really have much expectations,” she said. “I just played the course like I usually do, and being very strict on where I wanted to hit it and it just paid off and gave me a lot of good birdie chances.
“I think it was just very solid golf. It wasn’t anything special. It was just good golf and then being smart about how you play the course.”
Growing up in the town of Herlev, Leth-Nissen’s journey into golf began at the age of nine when she was offered an opportunity to try out at a local golf club during Denmark’s annual “Day of Golf”.
Cecilie has a younger sister, Amalie, 23, who earned her 2026 season LET card after finishing inside the Top 7 of last year’s LETAS Order of Merit.
She said: “We still talk, and when she’s home, we still play and practice together, so I still see her a lot. But it’s very different, because last year we were together like all the time and now we’re playing in two different continents very often.”
Now, Cecilie is hoping to follow in her sister’s footsteps while juggling the demands of law school.
“There’s a lot of sacrifices you have to make,” she added. “I don’t get to see my friends a whole lot and my family. You have to choose to do certain things at certain times instead of maybe staying at home and reading a book or something.”
Leth-Nissen will tee it up in the first round of the Ladies German Challenge powered by VcG at 9.17am (local time) alongside Spain’s Elena Melich Sanchez and England’s Ellie Gower.
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