Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Glenna Collett Vare (June 20, 1903 – February 3, 1989) was an American amateur golfer. She earned induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame.The Hall of Fame calls her the greatest female golfer of her day.
Ellen Fuson Port (born September 21, 1961) is an amateur golfer and former golf coach. At United States Golf Association events between 1995 and 2016, Port won the U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur four times and the United States Senior Women's Amateur Golf Championship three times.
Creamer ranked outside the top 100 in putts per round in 2012, [49] and Golf World magazine's Ryan Herrington described her putting as "sometimes balky". [6] While she was the LPGA leader in greens in regulation in 2009 and was regularly high in the tour rankings for the statistic early in her career, by 2014 she fell to 51st. [55]
Ann Gregory (July 25, 1912 – February 5, 1990) was an African-American amateur golfer. [1] Black newspapers had called her "The Queen of Negro Women's Golf." [2] As stated in Arthur Ashe's book, Hard Road to Glory, many observers called Gregory the best African-American female golfer of the 20th century.
[14] [15] She received the 1986 William Richardson Award from the Golf Writers Association of America for consistent outstanding contributions to golf. [16] She is also a member of the New Mexico Hall of Fame, [17] Texas Sports Hall of Fame, [18] Texas Golf Hall of Fame, [15] and the Women's Sports Foundation Hall of Fame. [19] [20]
On November 15, 2009, Wie won her first professional individual tournament, the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico, an event on the LPGA Tour limited to the top 36 female golfers in the world as determined by the LPGA money list and Rolex women's world golf rankings, posting a score of thirteen under par 275 for a two-stroke ...
Below is a list of female golfers, professional and amateurs, sorted alphabetically. Category:Lists of golfers contains lists of golfers sorted in several other ways: by nationality , by tour and by type of major championship won ( men's , women's or senior ).
In January, she was runner-up at the Webex Players Series Murray River, two strokes behind Kazuma Kobori in her professional debut. In February, she won the Magical Kenya Ladies Open in her LET debut. [1] By April, she climbed into the top-200 on the Women's World Golf Rankings for the first time.