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A golfer is someone who plays golf.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).
This article lists all 140 women who have won major championships on the LPGA Tour, both past and present. [1] They are listed in order of the number of victories, with updates reflecting the 2024 season. Winning span indicates the years from the player's first major win to the last.
At the first LPGA tournament of 2016, Creamer posted a top-five result at the Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic. She tied for fourth place at the JTBC Founders Cup, before going into an extended slump in performance in which she missed the cut seven times. [59] Her 2016 LPGA Tour earnings fell under $300,000, outside the top 60. [54]
In her rookie LPGA Tour season, she was runner-up at the Portland Classic and Lotte Championship to finish 26th in the season rankings. [8] [2] She also tied for third at the 2024 Magical Kenya Ladies Open on the LET. [9] She rose to 78th in the Women's World Golf Rankings by year end. [1]
Spiranac’s critics started attacking her all the way back in 2016 – some of those critics even included women on the LPGA tour – when she rebuked the tour’s strict dress code.
She joined the LPGA Tour in 1974 and was named LPGA Rookie of the Year. [2] Stephenson's first LPGA victory was the 1976 Sarah Coventry Naples Classic. Her most productive period was the early 1980s, when she won all of her majors in consecutive years: 1981 Peter Jackson Classic, the 1982 LPGA Championship and the 1983 U.S. Women's Open. [2]
After her LPGA Tour career, she became a member of the Legends Tour, formerly known as the Women's Senior Golf Tour, was part of the process to make the U.S. Senior Women’s Open a reality and played in the 2018 inaugural event at the Chicago Golf Club. [3]
It was the first-ever victory in an LPGA event by a former Duke Blue Devil, [4] [5] and Lang's 154th event on tour. [6] Lang has seven top ten finishes in major championships: six as a professional and one as an amateur. She won the U.S. Women's Open in 2016 at CordeValle and was a solo runner-up at the Women's British Open in 2011 at Carnoustie.