Nocera turned professional at the relatively late age of twenty-seven and finished ninth at the 2002
Ladies European Tour Qualifying School to win a place on the tour for the following season. After a modest start she improved dramatically in 2005, when she finished fourth on the Order of Merit and made her
Solheim Cup debut where she beat
Cristie Kerr in her singles match. In 2006 her career took another upward turn. She started the year representing
France at the
Women's World Cup of Golf with
Karine Icher. She scored her first three Ladies European Tour tournament victories at the Ladies Swiss Open, the
BMW Ladies Italian Open and the Catalonia Ladies Masters. She also played in her first women's major tournament, the
Kraft Nabisco Championship. She finished second on the New Star Money list being beaten only by
Laura Davies the holder of the record number of money list wins and was voted Players’ Player of the Year by her fellow
Ladies European Tour professionals. On 20 January 2008, at the fourth
Women's World Cup of Golf in
Sun City,
South Africa, team France with Nocera and
Virginie Lagoutte-Clément finished fifth, seven shots behind winning South Korean team
Jiyai Shin and
Ji Eun-hee over 54 holes. In 2009, Nocera earned her LPGA Tour card at LPGA Q-School and at the age of 34 was a rookie and an LPGA Tour member the following season. She played the LPGA Tour full-time in 2010 and 2011, reaching a career best second place at the
2010 CVS/Pharmacy LPGA Challenge.
LET 72-hole scoring record Nocera won the 2008
Göteborg Masters by an 11 stroke margin after scoring 259 (−29) following rounds of 66-62-65-66, the
best 72-hole score in the LET's 40-year history. The bogey-free round of 62 is only one stroke off the LET single round scoring record of 61 (−11). Source: ==Amateur wins==