Lorena Ochoa
Lorena Ochoa (* November 15, 1981 in Guadalajara) is a Mexican Berufsgolferin the LPGA Tour. It is considered the best golfer of all time and leads their country since April 2007, the world ranking of women.
At the age of five years, Lorena started with the game of golf, with six she won her first regional tournament and seven years, her first national. Overall, Ochoa was in the youth field 22 times and 44 times regionally nationally successful and won from 1990 to 1994 five consecutive titles at the Junior World Golf Championships. She attended two years, the University of Arizona, in 2001 and 2002 National Collegiate Athletic Association Player of the Year and finished at the NCAA National Championships in each of those years in second place.
Ochoa was Golfproette 2002 and first played on the second lined up North American Futures Tour, where she immediately for the great LPGA Tour 2003 qualifying tournament with three successes in their first season. In those playing you get eight finishes among the top 10, including two second places and Ochoa was subsequently awarded the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year Award as best newcomer. The first victories followed in 2004 and after numerous successes on the LPGA Tour has taken the leadership position in the Women's World Golf Rankings ( world ranking). In August 2007, her first major win was by winning the Women's British Open at the Old Course at St Andrews. In addition, Ochoa reached after seven tournament victories - three in a row - in 2007 as the first female golfer over three million dollars in prize money in one season.
Awards
- 2001: Mexico Premio Nacional del Deporte
- 2002: Futures Tour Rookie of the Year, Futures Tour Player of the Year
- 2003 LPGA Rookie of the Year
- 2006: Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year, Mexico Atleta del Año, LPGA Rolex Player of the Year, Vare Trophy LPGA, Golf Writers Association of America Female Player of the Year
- 2007: LPGA Rolex Player of the Year, LPGA Vare Trophy, Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year, Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year, Mexico National Sports Award, Golf Writers Association of America Female Player of the Year, AP Female Athlete of the Year, EFE Sportswoman of the Year, Heather Farr Player Award
- 2008: LPGA Vare Trophy
LPGA Tour wins
- 2004 (2) Franklin American Mortgage Championship, Wachovia LPGA Classic Hosted by Betsy King
- 2005 (1) Wegmans LPGA
- 2006 (6) LPGA Takefuji Classic Sybase Classic, Wendy 's Championship for Children, Corona Morelia Championship, Samsung World Championship, The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions
- 2007 ( 8) Safeway International, Sybase Classic, Wegmans LPGA Women's British Open, Canadian Women's Open Safeway Classic Presented by Pepsi, Samsung World Championship of Golf, ADT Championship
- 2008 ( 7) HSBC Women's Champions, Safeway International, Kraft Nabisco Championship, Corona Championship, Ginn Open, Sybase Classic, Navistar LPGA Classic
- 2009 (3 ) Honda LPGA Thailand, Corona Championship, Navistar LPGA Classic
Major Championship in bold.
Futures Tour wins
- 2002 (3) JWA / Michelob Light Futures Charity Golf Classic, Ann Arbor Futures Classic, Betty Puskar Futures Golf Classic