Name	Nabisco
Company logo
Type	Subsidiary of Kraft Foods
Foundation	East Hanover, New Jersey U.S. (1898)
Location	Hanover, New Jersey, U.S.
Slogan	''America's Favourite Food Comapny!''
Industry	Food processing
Products	Cookies, crackers
Parent	Kraft Foods
Homepage	www.nabisco.com }}

Nabisco (; originally known as the ''Na''tional ''Bis''cuit ''Co''mpany) is an American brand of cookies and snacks. Headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey, the company is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Kraft Foods. Nabisco's plant in Chicago, a production facility at 7300 S. Kedzie Avenue, is the largest bakery in the world, employing more than 1,500 workers and turning out some 320 million pounds of snack foods annually.

Its products include Chips Ahoy!, Fig Newtons, Mallomars, Oreos, Ritz Crackers, Teddy Grahams, Triscuit, Wheat Thins, Social Tea, Nutter Butter, Peek Freans, Chicken in a Biskit, used for the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico and Venezuela as well as other parts of South America.

Nabisco products are branded as Kraft in some other countries. All Nabisco cookie or cracker products are branded Christie in Canada; however, prior to the Post Cereals merger, the cereal division kept the Nabisco name in Canada. The proof of purchase on their products is marketed as a "brand seal".

Nabisco opened corporate offices as the National Biscuit Company in the world's first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building in the Chicago Loop in 1898.

Logo[link]

Nabisco's trademark, a diagonal ellipse with a series of antenna-like lines protruding from the top, forms the base of its logo and can be seen imprinted on Oreo wafers in addition to Nabisco product boxes and literature. It has been claimed in company promotional material to be an early European symbol for quality; it may be derived from a medieval Italian printer's mark that represented "the triumph of the moral and good over the evil and worldly." Oreo wafers in Canada contain the orb, but the packaging does not as they are branded as Christie in that country. Elsewhere, the packaging is branded with the Kraft logo.

History[link]

Company time line[link]

1792 – Pearson & Sons Bakery opens in Massachusetts. They make a biscuit called pilot bread consumed on long sea voyages.

1801 – Josiah Bent Bakery first coined the term 'crackers' for a crunchy biscuit they produce.

1889 – William Moore acquires Pearson & Sons Bakery, Josiah Bent Bakery, and six other bakeries to start the New York Biscuit Company.

1890 – Adolphus Green starts the American Biscuit & Manufacturing Company after acquiring forty different bakeries.

1898 – William Moore and Adolphus Green merge to form the National Biscuit Company. Adolphus Green is president.

1901 – The name Nabisco is first used as part of a name for a sugar wafer.

1971 – Nabisco becomes the corporate name.

1973 – Frank Tasco is listed as the chairman of Nabisco.

1981 – Nabisco merges with Standard Brands.

1985 – Nabisco Brands merges with R.J. Reynolds

1993 – Kraft General Foods acquires NABISCO ready-to-eat cold cereals from RJR Nabisco .the cereals now owned by Post Cereals.

1999 – Nabisco acquires Favorite Brands International

2000 – Philip Morris Companies, Inc. acquires Nabisco and merges it with Kraft Foods, Inc.

2011 – Kraft Foods announced it was splitting making the snack food business a separate company . will be called Mondelēz International Inc..

Origins[link]

Nabisco dates its founding to 1898, a decade during which the bakery business underwent a major consolidation. Early in the decade, bakeries throughout the country were consolidated regionally, into companies such as Chicago's American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company (which was formed from 40 Midwestern bakeries in 1830), the New York Biscuit Company (consisting of seven eastern bakeries), and the United States Baking Company. In 1898, the National Biscuit Company was formed from the combination of those three; the merger resulted in a company with 114 bakeries across the United States and headquartered in New York City. The "biscuit" in the name of the company is a British English and early American English term for cracker products.

Key to the founding of Nabisco was Pittsburgh baking mogul Sylvester S Marvin. Marvin arrived in Pittsburgh in 1863 and established himself in the cracker business, founding S. S. Marvin Co. Its products embraced every description of crackers, cakes and breads. Marvin was called the Edison of manufacturing for his innovations in the bakery business—by 1888 the largest in the United States—and the centerpiece to the organization of the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco). Marvin was also a member of the elite South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club of Johnstown Flood fame.

Packaging breakthrough[link]

After the consolidation, the president of National Biscuit Company—Adolphus Green of American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company—asked Frank Peters to create a package to distribute fresher products. This paved its way for In-Er Seal package, whose logo is a prototype for the "Nabisco Thing". The In-Er Seal package is a system of inter-folded wax paper and cardboard to "seal in the freshness" of the product. At the beginning of his presidency, Green decided the National Biscuit Company, often shortened to NBC, needed a new idea that grabbed the public’s attention. He got it when his employees created a new cracker that was flakier and lighter than any of their competitors' versions.

The UNEEDA biscuit looked promising, but Green had to make sure it got to customers fresh and tasty, so it was the first to use the In-Er Seal package in 1898. Until then, crackers were sold unbranded and packed loosely in barrels. Mothers would give their sons a paper bag and ask them to run down to the store and get the bag filled with crackers. National Biscuit Company used this as part of Uneeda Biscuit advertising symbol, which depicts a boy carrying a pack of Uneeda Biscuit in the rain. In 2009 (after over 110 years), Nabisco discontinued the Uneeda biscuit out of concern that the product was not as profitable as others.

20th century[link]

The first use of "Nabisco" was in a cracker brand first produced by National Biscuit Company in 1901. The firm later introduced—either through development or acquisition— Fig Newtons, Nabisco Wafers (early 1900s, later sold in one form as Biscos, a sugar wafer originally containing a variety of flavored fillings), Anola Wafers (early 1900s, later discontinued; a chocolate wafer with chocolate filling), Barnum's Animal Crackers (1902),Cameos (1910) Lorna Doones (1912; shortbread), Oreos (1912), and Famous Chocolate Wafers (1924; a thin wafer without filling).

In 1924, the National Biscuit Company introduced a snack in a five-cent sealed packet called the Peanut Sandwich Packet. They soon added a second, the Sorbetto Sandwich Packet. These allowed salesmen to sell to soda fountains, road stands, milk bars, lunch rooms and news stands. Sales increased, and in 1928 the company adopted and started to use the name NAB, which immediately won the approval of the public. The term Nabs today is used to generically mean any type of snack crackers, most commonly in the southern United States.

During WWII, the company manufactured K-Rations for US troops. The first use of the red triangular logo was in 1952. The name of the company was not changed to Nabisco until 1971; prior to that year, the company was often referred to as N.B.C. (unrelated to the broadcasting company).

Slogan[link]

The Nabisco slogan is ''American's Favourite Food Company!''

Brands[link]

Doo Dads

Trakinas

100 Calorie Packs (Thinsations in Canada)

Arrowroot

Better Cheddars

Cameo

Dad's Cookie (c. 1929 Canada)

Team Flakes

Fudgee-O Cookies

Triscuit

Captain Table

Wheat Squares

Chips Ahoy!

In A Biskit

Orchard Crisps

Mallomars

Fig Newtons

Nutter Butter

Nilla

Honey Maid

Oreo

Oreo Cakesters

Premium

Ritz

Teddy Grahams

Toasted Chips

Toastettes

Wheat Thins

Rice Thins

Snackwells

Trakinas

Nabisco Classics

Club Social

Kraker Bran

Oro Saiwa

Frollini de Oro Saiwa

Sportz

Kool Stuf

Pecanz

Acquisitions[link]

N.B.C. acquired the Shredded Wheat Company (maker of Triscuit and Shredded Wheat cereal) and Christie, Brown & Company of Toronto in 1928, but all of the Nabisco products in Canada still use the name Christie. N.B.C. acquired F.H. Bennett Company (maker of Milk-Bone dog biscuits) in 1931. When Kraft bought Nabisco, it included Christie.

In 1981, Nabisco merged with Standard Brands, maker of Planters Nuts, Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars, Royal gelatin, Fleischmann's and Blue Bonnet margarines, and many more. The company was then renamed Nabisco Brands, Inc. At that time, it also acquired the Life Savers brand from the E.R. Squibb Company.

R.J. Reynolds merger[link]

In 1985, Nabisco was bought by R.J. Reynolds, forming RJR Nabisco. After three years of mixed results, the company became one of the hotspots in the '80s leveraged buyout mania. The company was in auction with two bidders: F. Ross Johnson, the company's president and CEO, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, a private equity partnership.

The company eventually was sold to KKR in what was then the biggest leveraged buyout in history, described in the book ''Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco'', and a subsequent film.

Subsequent divestitures[link]

In 1988, RJR sold its Chun King division, and also Del Monte Corporation's fresh produce division, which later became Fresh Del Monte Produce. In 1989, RJR sold the North and South American Del Monte processed food operations.

In 1990, RJR sold the Curtiss Candy division, which owned the Baby Ruth and Butterfinger brands, to Nestle. RJR also sold LU, Belin and other European biscuit brands to Groupe Danone, only reunited in 2007 after Nabisco's present parent, Kraft Foods, bought Danone's biscuit operations for EUR 5.3 billion.

In 1994, RJR sold its breakfast cereal business (primarily the Shredded Wheat franchise) to Kraft Foods and the international licenses to General Mills, which later on became a part of the Cereal Partners Worldwide joint venture with Nestle. In 1994 also RJR acquired KNOX Gelatin. The Shredded Wheat franchise would subsequently be integrated into the Post Foods portfolio, with Post continuing to sell the product today.

In 1995, RJR sold Ortega Mexican-style foods, and acquired Kraft Foods' tablespreads operations, which includes Parkay, Touch of Butter and Chiffon brands.

In 1997, RJR sold Egg Beaters egg substitutes, and Parkay, Touch of Butter, Chiffon, Fleischmann's, Move Over Butter and Blue Bonnet tablespreads to ConAgra, its College Inn broth business to Del Monte Foods and also its Venezuelan Del Monte operations.

In 2000 Philip Morris Companies (now called the Altria Group) acquired Nabisco; that acquisition was approved by the Federal Trade Commission subject to the divestiture of products in five areas: three Jell-O and Royal brands types of products (dry-mix gelatin dessert, dry-mix pudding, no-bake desserts), intense mints (such as Altoids), and baking powder. Kraft Foods, at the time also a subsidiary of Altria Group, eventually merged with Nabisco; in 2007, Kraft Foods was spun off from Altria Group, taking its Nabisco subsidiary with it. The Royal brands were eventually sold to Jel Sert.

Nestle is licensed to make some of the ice cream and popsicle variants of Oreo, Chips Ahoy! and Kool-Aid in Canada.

In January 2008, Cream of Wheat was sold to B&G; Foods.

Legal battles[link]

In 1997, the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus became concerned with an ad campaign for Planters Deluxe Mixed Nuts. The initial commercial featured a man and monkey deserted on an island. They discover a crate of Planters peanuts and rejoice in the peanuts' positive health facts.

Nabisco made a detailed statement describing how their peanuts were healthier than most other snack products, going as far as comparing the nutritional facts of Planters peanuts to those of potato chips, Cheddar cheese chips, and popcorn. Technically, the commercials complied with United States Food and Drug Administration regulations, and they were allowed to continue. However, as requested by the NAD, Nabisco agreed to make fat content disclosure more conspicuous in future commercials.

The company's A1 Steak Sauce was the subject of a legal battle against a venue called Arnie's Deli in 1991. The delicatessen was selling and using a homemade sauce called "A2 Sauce." The verdict favored Nabisco.

NASCAR sponsorship[link]

From 2002–2005, Nabisco and Kraft jointly sponsored both Dale Earnhardt, Inc. and Roush Racing. Earnhardt Jr. won four races in a row at Daytona International Speedway with Nabisco sponsorship. Kraft and Nabisco sponsored a part-time Sprint Cup effort in car #81 driven by Jason Keller and John Andretti and fielded by Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Nabisco also sponsored Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the 2010 Subway Jalapeño 250 at Daytona International Speedway in July, 2010 with their Oreo/Ritz brand's and Tony Stewart with the Ritz brand in the 2010 DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway in 2010.

References[link]

External links[link]

Nabisco Website

NabiscoWorld

Adolphus Green, first head of N.B.C. from Kraft Foods website

Story of Nabisco from the Kraft Canada website

FTC summary of competitive concerns about the 2000 acquisition of Nabisco

From Oreos and Mallomars to Today's Chelsea Market – ''The New York Times''

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Sun-Young Yoo (Korean 유선영) (born 13 December 1986) is a South Korean female professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour.

Amateur career[link]

Yoo had a distinguished amateur career. In 2001 she won the Korean Junior Golf Championship. She played on the Korean National Golf team in both 2002 and 2004. In 2004 Yoo won the Korean Amateur in addition to being a quarter-finalist at the U.S. Women's Amateur.

Professional career[link]

Yoo turned professional in November 2004 and began playing the Futures Tour in 2005. Yoo won her first professional event, the Betty Puskar Golf Classic. That and ten top ten finishes in 18 events allowed Yoo to begin playing the LPGA Tour in 2006.

In September 2009 Yoo had her best ever finish on the LPGA Tour. At the end of 54 holes at the P&G; Beauty NW Arkansas Championship, she was tied for first with Jiyai Shin and Angela Stanford. A sudden death playoff followed which was won on the second extra hole by Shin.

Yoo won her first LPGA Tour title at the 2010 Sybase Match Play Championship where she again faced Jiyai Shin and Angela Stanford on the way to the title. She defeated world number one Shin, in a semifinal match 2&1 and went on to defeat Stanford 3&1 in the championship match.

On 1 April 2012, Yoo won her first major title, the Kraft Nabisco Championship. She defeated I.K. Kim on the first hole of a sudden death playoff when Kim missed a one foot putt on the 72nd hole.

Among her fellow South Koreans on the LPGA Tour, Yoo is known as 'Course Clown'.

Professional wins (3)[link]

LPGA Tour (2)[link]

!No.	!Date	!Tournament	!Winning score	!To par	!Margin ofvictory	!Runner(s)-up	share (United States dollar>$)
		Sybase Match Play Championship		Angela Stanford
		Kraft Nabisco Championship		align=center
	I.K. Kim

LPGA Tour playoff record (1-1)

!No.!!Year!!Tournament!!Opponent(s)!!Result
1	2009	P&G; Beauty NW Arkansas Championship	Jiyai Shin, Angela Stanford	Shin won with birdie on second extra hole
2	2012	Kraft Nabisco Championship	I.K. Kim	Won with birdie on first extra hole

Futures Tour (1)[link]

2005 (1) Betty Puskar Golf Classic

Results in LPGA majors[link]

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DNP = did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut WD = withdrew "T" tied Green background for a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish.

LPGA Tour career summary[link]

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" ! Year !! Tournaments played !! Cuts made !!Wins !! 2nd !! 3rd !! Top 10s !! Best finish !! Earnings ($) !! Money list rank !! Scoring average !! Scoring rank |- |- |align="center"|2006 |align="center"|27 |align="center"|18 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|T5 |align="right"| 231,473 |align="center"|57 |align="right"|72.53 |align="center"|64 |- |align="center"|2007 |align="center"|22 |align="center"|17 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|17 |align="right"| 131,092 |align="center"|75 |align="right"| 73.06 |align="center"|61 |- |align="center"|2008 |align="center"|30 |align="center"|25 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|6 |align="center"|3 |align="right"| 688,983 |align="center"|25 |align="right"| 71.62 |align="center"|20 |- |align="center"|2009 |align="center"|25 |align="center"|23 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|T2 |align="right"| 614,874 |align="center"|23 |align="right"| 71.16 |align="center"|16 |- |align="center"|2010 |align="center"|22 |align="center"|18 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|1 |align="right"| 655,832 |align="center"|16 |align="right"| 71.77 |align="center"|27 |- |align="center"|2011 |align="center"|21 |align="center"|16 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|6 |align="center"|4 |align="right"| 476,672 |align="center"|25 |align="right"| 72.04 |align="center"|29 |- |align="center"|2012 |align="center"|7 |align="center"|6 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|1 |align="right"| 508,855 |align="center"|3 |align="right"| 71.69 |align="center"|15 |} official as of 22 April 2012

References[link]

External links[link]

Profile at Yahoo! Sports

Results on LPGA Tour 2006-2011

Biography on seoulsisters.com

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Yani Tseng (; born 23 January 1989) is a Taiwanese professional golfer currently playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She is the youngest player ever, male or female, to win five major championships and is currently ranked number 1 in the Women's World Golf Rankings.

Amateur career[link]

Tseng was the top-ranked amateur in Taiwan from 2004 to 2006. The highlight of her amateur career was winning the 2004 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links, defeating Michelle Wie in the final, 1 up. Her amateur accomplishments include:

2002 Won – Callaway Junior World Golf Championships (Girls 13–14)

2004 2nd place – Callaway Junior World Golf Championships (Girls 15–17)

2004 Won – U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links

2005 Won – North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship

2005 Semi-finalist – U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links

2005 2nd place – North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship

Professional career[link]

2007: The start[link]

Tseng turned professional in January 2007. That year she competed on the Ladies Asian Golf Tour and won the DLF Women’s Indian Open. She also competed on the CN Canadian Women’s Tour where she won the CN Canadian Women’s Tour at Vancouver Golf Club.

2008: Major breakthrough[link]

Tseng entered the LPGA Qualifying Tournament in the fall of 2007 and finished sixth in the final Qualifying Tournament in December which gave Tseng full playing privileges on the LPGA Tour for 2008. In June 2008, she claimed her first LPGA tour victory at the LPGA Championship to become the first player from Taiwan to win an LPGA major championship. At age 19, she was also the youngest player to win the LPGA Championship and the second-youngest player to win an LPGA major.

Tseng was named LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2008.

2009: The sophomore slump[link]

On 29 March 2009, Tseng became the fastest player in LPGA history to reach the $2 million mark in career earnings. She achieved this mark in 32 events, spanning one year, one month, and 13 days. The previous record holder was Paula Creamer who reached the mark in one year, four months, and 15 days in 2006.

2010: Early dominance[link]

On 4 April 2010, Tseng won the first major championship of the LPGA season, the Kraft Nabisco Championship, by one stroke. She went on to win her second major of the year on 1 August 2010 by winning the Women's British Open by one stroke and became the youngest woman in the modern era to win three major championships. LPGA founder Patty Berg was younger than Tseng when she won the 1939 Titleholders Championship. However, that was before the formation of the LPGA Tour in 1950 and the designation of official LPGA major tournaments.

In September 2010, Tseng was offered a five-year sponsorship deal from a Chinese company worth NT$1 billion (US$25 million) with access to a luxury villa and private jets. Tseng rejected the offer because it required she switch her citizenship from Taiwan to China.

2011: Continued dominance[link]

In January 2011, Tseng defended her title at the Taifong Ladies Open on the LPGA of Taiwan Tour. Three weeks later she won the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open and a week later the ANZ RACV Ladies Masters, both events co-sponsored by the ALPG Tour and the Ladies European Tour. Her wins moved her into the number 1 position in the Women's World Golf Rankings. She won again the next week in the first tournament of the LPGA season, the Honda LPGA Thailand.

In June 2011, she won the LPGA State Farm Classic over Cristie Kerr by three strokes. Two weeks later, she won the LPGA Championship. This made her the youngest player to win four LPGA majors. The next month she defended her title at the Women's British Open, becoming the first defending champion winner at the Women's British Open as a major. Her five major titles also made her the youngest player, male or female, to win five major championships.

Tseng won the LPGA Tour Player of the Year for a second straight year. She wrapped up the award while the season still had four events remaining.

2012[link]

Tseng won three of the first five events on the 2012 LPGA Tour: the Honda LPGA Thailand, the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup and the Kia Classic. The Honda LPGA Thailand victory was her second consecutive win at that event.

Hall of Fame[link]

Tseng is only four points away from qualifying for the World Golf Hall of Fame via the LPGA Points System under the No. 3 criteria, which list the criterion as being 27 points. This means one point for each regular tour victory on the LPGA Tour, and two points for every major championship won. Also, she received three additional points via Rolex LPGA Player of the Year (two points) and the Vare Trophy (one point) awards she has won. Tseng would have to wait after accumulating the points till after her tenth season under No. 1 criteria, which would mean she would become eligible in 2018. Lastly, Tseng has already met the No. 2 requirement by winning one LPGA major, Vare Trophy, or Rolex award.

Personal life[link]

Tseng's father is Mao Hsin Tseng and her mother is Yu-Yun Yang.

Tseng resides in a residential community at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club in Orlando, Florida, in a house that she purchased from former LPGA player Annika Sörenstam in April 2009.

Tseng has been named on Time Magazine's list as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World'.

Professional wins (26)[link]

LPGA Tour (15)[link]

!No.	!Date	!Tournament	!Winning score	!To par	!Margin ofvictory	!Runner(s)-up	share (United States dollar>$)
		McDonald's LPGA Championship				Maria Hjorth
		LPGA Corning Classic				Soo-Yun Kang Paula Creamer
		Kraft Nabisco Championship				Suzann Pettersen
		Ricoh Women's British Open				Katherine Hull
		P&G; NW Arkansas Championship				Michelle Wie
		Honda LPGA Thailand				Michelle Wie
		LPGA State Farm Classic				Cristie Kerr
		Wegmans LPGA Championship				Morgan Pressel
		Ricoh Women's British Open				Brittany Lang
		Walmart NW Arkansas Championship				Amy Yang
		LPGA Hana Bank Championship				Na Yeon Choi
		Sunrise LPGA Taiwan Championship				Amy Yang Azahara Muñoz
		Honda LPGA Thailand				Ai Miyazato
		RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup				Na Yeon Choi Ai Miyazato
		Kia Classic				Sun Young Yoo

LPGA majors are shown in bold.

LPGA Tour playoff record (2–1)

!No.!!Year!!Tournament!!Opponent(s)!!Result
	2008		Maria Hjorth	Won with birdie on fourth extra hole
	2008	State Farm Classic	Ji-Young Oh	Lost to par on first extra hole
	2011	Walmart NW Arkansas Championship	Amy Yang	Won with birdie on first extra hole

Other wins (11)[link]

!No.	!Date	!Tournament	!Winning score	!To par	!Margin ofvictory	!Runner(s)-up
	3 Mar 2007				Playoff	Russy Gulyanamitta
	11 Apr 2007	TLPGA Tour Nan-Fong Tournament at Nan-Fong Golf Club(Taiwan LPGA Tour)			Playoff	Yueh-Chyn Huang
	29 May 2007	CN Canadian Women's Tour at Vancouver Golf Club(CN Canadian Women’s Tour)			2 strokes	Stephanie Sherlock
	12 Jan 2008	Royal Ladies Open (The LPGA of Taiwan)			17 strokes	Eun-Kyoung Lee Pornanong Phatlum
	17 Jan 2010	Taifong Ladies Open (The LPGA of Taiwan)			4 strokes	Wei Yun Jye
	12 Mar 2010				3 strokes	Laura Davies
	16 Jan 2011	Taifong Ladies Open (LAGT, The LPGA of Taiwan)			3 strokes	Nam Min-ji
	6 Feb 2011				7 strokes	Eun-Hee Ji Melissa Reid Jiyai Shin
	13 Feb 2011	ANZ RACV Ladies Masters (ALPG, LET)			4 strokes	Nikki Campbell Stacy Lewis
	30 Oct 2011	Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open (LAGT, LET)			7 strokes	Pernilla Lindberg
	11 Dec 2011	Swinging Skirts TLPGA Invitational (The LPGA of Taiwan)			7 strokes	So Yeon Ryu Jiyai Shin

Major championships[link]

Wins (5)[link]

{|class="wikitable" !No.!!Year!!Championship!!Winning score!!To par!!Marginof victory!!Runner(s)-up!!Winner'sshare ($) |-bgcolor="#D8BFD8" |align=center|1 || 2008 || LPGA Championship ||73-70-65-68=276 ||align=center|−12 || align=center|Playoff ¹ || Maria Hjorth||align=center|300,000 |-bgcolor="#D0F0C0" |align=center|2 || 2010 || Kraft Nabisco Championship ||69-71-67-68=275 ||align=center|−13 || align=center|1 stroke || Suzann Pettersen || align=center|300,000 |-bgcolor="#ABCDEF" |align=center|3 || 2010 ||Women's British Open ||68-68-68-73=277||align=center|−11 ||align=center|1 stroke || Katherine Hull||align=center|408,714 |-bgcolor="#D8BFD8" |align=center|4 || 2011 ||LPGA Championship (2) ||66-70-67-66=269 ||align=center|−19 ||align=center| 10 strokes || Morgan Pressel||align=center|375,000 |-bgcolor="#ABCDEF" |align=center|5 || 2011 ||Women's British Open (2) ||71-66-66-69=272 ||align=center|−16 || align=center|4 strokes || Brittany Lang||align=center|392,133 |} ¹ Defeated Hjorth with birdie on fourth extra hole.

Results timeline[link]

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" ! Tournament !! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008 !! 2009 !! 2010 !! 2011 !! 2012 |- |Kraft Nabisco Championship |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T21 |align="center"|T17 |align="center" style="background:#00ff00;"|1 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|2 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|3 |- |LPGA Championship |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:#00ff00;"|1 |align="center"|T23 |align="center"|T19 |align="center" style="background:#00ff00;"|1 |align="center"| |- |U.S. Women's Open |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T42 |align="center"|CUT |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T10 |align="center"|T15 |align="center"| |- |Women's British Open |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|2 |align="center"|T20 |align="center" style="background:#00ff00;"|1 |align="center" style="background:#00ff00;"|1 |align="center"| |}

DNP = did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" = tied Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Summary[link]

Tournaments played: 17

Wins: 5

Top 10s: 8

Top 25s: 14

Missed cuts: 2

Most consecutive cuts made: 9

LPGA Tour career summary[link]

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" ! Year !! Tournamentsplayed !! Cutsmade !! Wins !! 2nd !! 3rd !! Top 10s !! Bestfinish !! Earnings($) !! Money list rank !! Scoring average !! Scoringrank |- |align="center"|2004 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|T33 |align="center"|n/a |align="center"|n/a |align="center"|71.50 |align="center"|n/a |- |align="center"|2005 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|MC |align="center"|n/a |align="center"|n/a |align="center"|77.00 |align="center"|n/a |- |align="center"|2006 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|MC |align="center"|n/a |align="center"|n/a |align="center"|76.00 |align="center"|n/a |- |align="center"|2007 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|T6 |align="right"| 64,909 |align="center"|n/a |align="center"|69.00 |align="center"|n/a |- |align="center"|2008 |align="center"|28 |align="center"|27 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|6 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|11 |align="center"|1 |align="right"| 1,752,086 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|70.77 |align="center"|4 |- |align="center"|2009 |align="center"|27 |align="center"|26 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|14 |align="center"|1 |align="right"| 1,293,755 |align="center"|7 |align="center"|70.44 |align="center"|5 |- |align="center"|2010 |align="center"|20 |align="center"|19 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|8 |align="center"|1 |align="right"| 1,573,529 |align="center"|4 |align="center"| 70.66 |align="center"| 8 |- |align="center"|2011 |align="center"|22 |align="center"|21 |align="center"|7 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|14 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|2,921,713 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|69.66 |align="center"|1 |- |align="center"|2012 |align="center"|7 |align="center"|7 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|7 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|958,126 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|69.54 |align="center"|1 |} official as of 30 April 2012

See also[link]

List of golfers with most LPGA major championship wins

List of golfers with most LPGA Tour wins

References[link]

External links[link]

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Lorena Ochoa Reyes (born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010, and was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for over three years, from April 2007 to her retirement in May 2010. As the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world, she is considered the best Mexican golfer of all time.

Childhood and amateur career[link]

Born and raised in Guadalajara, Ochoa was the third of four children of a real estate developer and an artist. She took up golf at the age of five, won her first state event at the age of six, and her first national event at seven.

An 11-year-old Ochoa approached the professional Rafael Alarcon, 1979 winner of the Canadian Amateur Championship, as he worked on his game at Guadalajara Country Club, where her family lived near the 10th tee. She asked him if he would help her with her game. Alarcon asked her what her goal was, "She said she wanted to be the best player in the world."

As a junior, she captured 22 state events in Guadalajara and 44 national events in Mexico. She won five consecutive titles at the Junior World Golf Championships and in 2000 she enrolled at the University of Arizona in the U.S. on a golf scholarship, where she was a teammate of fellow freshman Natalie Gulbis. While a student in Tucson, Ochoa received regular tutoring and greatly improved her English by watching movies and reading magazines between practice and tournaments.

She was very successful in women's collegiate golf in the next two years, winning the NCAA Player of the Year Awards for 2001 and 2002, finishing runner-up at both the 2001 and 2002 NCAA National Championship and being named to the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) 2001 All-America First team. She won the 2001 Pac-10 Women's Golf Championships, was named Pac-10 Freshman/Newcomer of the Year 2001 and was All Pac-10 First team in 2001 and 2002.

In her sophomore year she had eight tournament wins in ten events she entered and set an NCAA record with seven consecutive victories in her first seven events. She won the Golfstat Cup in both 2001 and 2002. The Cup is given to the player who has the best scoring average versus par with at least 20 full rounds played during a season. setting the single-season NCAA scoring average record as a freshman at 71.33 and beating her own record the next year by just over a stroke per round with a 70.13 average.

In November 2001, Ochoa was presented with Mexico's National Sports Award by Mexican President Vicente Fox. She was the youngest person and first golfer to receive Mexico's highest sporting accolade. In 2006 she was named NCAA Division I Women's Golf Most Outstanding Student Athlete, an award which was bestowed as part of the 25th Anniversary of Women's Championships celebration, taking into account outstanding performances over the past 25 years. She was the recipient of the 2003 Nancy Lopez Award, which is presented annually to the world's most outstanding female amateur golfer.

Nancy Lopez describes Ochoa off the golf course as:

"When you meet her for the second time and she remembers not only your name, but also the slightest detail from the last time you spoke."

Professional career[link]

Ochoa left college after her second year to turn professional, then won three of ten events played on the 2002 Futures Tour, and topped its money list to earn membership on the LPGA Tour for the 2003 season. She was also Duramed FUTURES Tour Player of the Year.

In her rookie season on the LPGA Tour in 2003, she had eight top-10 finishes, including runner-up finishes at the Wegmans Rochester and Michelob Light Open at Kingsmill, ending the season as the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year and ninth on the LPGA official money list. In 2004 she won her first two LPGA Tour titles: the Franklin American Mortgage Championship (where she became the first Mexican born player to win on the LPGA Tour) and the Wachovia LPGA Classic. That same year she placed in the top ten in three of the four major championships.

In 2005, Ochoa won the Wegmans Rochester LPGA. In 2006, her first round score of 62 in the Kraft Nabisco Championship tied the record for lowest score ever by a golfer, male or female, in any major tournament. Her playoff loss to Karrie Webb marked her best finish until 2007 in an LPGA major. By the end of the year she won six tournaments, topped the money list and claimed her first LPGA Tour Player of the Year award which goes to the player who gains the most number of points throughout the season based on a formula in which points are awarded for top-10 finishes and are doubled at the LPGA's four major championships and at the season-ending ADT Championship. She also won the LPGA Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average on the LPGA Tour.

Her achievements were recognized outside the sport of golf when Ochoa won the 2006 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year award and received the National Sports Prize for the second time.

In April 2007, Ochoa overtook Annika Sörenstam to become the world number one ranked golfer.

In August 2007, Ochoa won her first major championship at the historic home of golf, the Old Course at St Andrews, with a wire-to-wire win by four shots at the Women's British Open. She won the next two LPGA events, the CN Canadian Women's Open and the Safeway Classic, the first to win three consecutive events since Sörenstam in 2005.

Also in 2007, Ochoa became the first woman ever to earn more than $4,000,000 in a single season, surpassing Sörenstam's previous record of $2,863,904.

In April 2008, Ochoa won her second major championship, this time at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, becoming the first golfer to win consecutive LPGA majors since Sörenstam in 2005. She celebrated this victory in the traditional fashion for the Kraft Nabisco by jumping into the pond on the 18th green. The following week, she won the Corona Championship in her home country by 11 strokes. This gave her the final tournament win she needed to qualify for the World Golf Hall of Fame, although she cannot be inducted until 2012, after she completes ten seasons on the LPGA Tour.

Ochoa is coached by Rafael Alarcon, a Mexican professional. Alarcon finished second in the 1976 Canadian Amateur Championship, won that title in 1979, then turned professional.

Retirement[link]

On 20 April 2010, Ochoa released a statement indicating her intent to retire from professional golf. At a press conference held in Mexico City on 23 April 2010, Ochoa said her last tournament would be the 2010 Tres Marias Championship to be played from 29 April through 2 May. She said that her career plan had always been to play for "around ten years" and to be the number 1 ranked player in the world. She also said:

"I just want to be honest with all of you. I went to Asia, and after two or three days of being in Thailand, it was really easy to me – it was really clear to see that I didn't want to be out there, you know. I just was thinking of other things. I wanted to get home. I wanted to start working on the foundation. I wanted to be here close to my family."

Ochoa said she would still maintain her membership in the LPGA and would play in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational and "I'm going to leave the door open in case I want to come back in one or two years to play a U.S. Open or a Kraft Nabisco."

Tournament host[link]

In November 2008, she became the host of a new annual LPGA event, the Lorena Ochoa Invitational, held at her original home course, Guadalajara Country Club. Proceeds from the tournament help support the Lorena Ochoa Foundation.

Outside the LPGA[link]

Lorena Ochoa's successes fuel the family business, the Ochoa Group in Guadalajara, managed by her brother Alejandro Ochoa.

Lorena Ochoa is represented by the Ochoa Sports Management, along with Alarcon and Sophia Sheridan, a Mexican golfer who plays on the LPGA's developmental tour. The Ochoas are confident the list will expand as they attempt to grow the game in Mexico through Ochoa Golf Academies, created by Lorena, Alejandro and Alarcon.

Ochoa Sports Management also operates the LPGA Corona Championship, an annual tour stop in Morelia, Mexico; and the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.

The Lorena Ochoa Foundation operates La Barranca, a primary school in Guadalajara with 250 underprivileged students and an innovative curriculum. In 2008, the foundation opened a high school with 21 freshmen students. The plan, according to foundation director Carmen Bolio, is to add a new class each year and then construct a high school building that's separate from the primary school. She became engaged to her boyfriend Andrés Conesa Labastida, CEO of Aeroméxico, and they married in December 2009. In April 2011, Ochoa announced she was pregnant with the couple's first child.

Professional wins (30)[link]

Futures Tour (3)[link]

!No.	!Date	!Tournament	!Winning score	!Margin ofvictory	!Runner(s)-up
1		JWA/Michelob Light FUTURES Charity Golf Classic	-9 (201)	4 strokes	Amy Dahle
2		Ann Arbor FUTURES Classic	-8 (68–72–68=208)	1 stroke	Christina Kim
3			-9 (70–68–69=207)	2 strokes	Erika Wicoff

LPGA Tour (27)[link]

!No.	!Date	!Tournament	!Winning score	!Margin ofvictory	!Runner(s)-up
1		Franklin American Mortgage Championship	-16 (70–67–67–68=272)	1 stroke	Wendy Ward
2		Wachovia LPGA Classic	-19 (67–68–69–65=269)	2 strokes
3		Wegmans Rochester LPGA	-15 (67–69–72–65=273)	4 strokes	Paula Creamer
4		LPGA Takefuji Classic	-19 (63–68–66=197)	3 strokes	Seon Hwa Lee
5		Sybase Classic	-5 (71–71–66=208)	2 strokes	Hee-Won Han Kyeong Bae
6		Wendy's Championship for Children	-24 (67–68–64–65=264)	3 strokes	Stacy Prammanasudh Jee Young Lee
7		Corona Morelia Championship	-20 (71–64–68–69=272)	5 strokes	Julieta Granada
8		Samsung World Championship	-16 (67–73–67–65=272)	2 strokes	Annika Sörenstam
9		The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions	-21 (66–73–63–65=267)	10 strokes	Juli Inkster Paula Creamer
10		Safeway International	-18 (69–64–69–68=270)	2 strokes	Suzann Pettersen
11		Sybase Classic	-18 (68–67–67–68=270)	3 strokes
12		Wegmans LPGA	-8 (69–71–67–73=280)	Playoff	In-Kyung Kim
13		Ricoh Women's British Open	-5 (67–73–73–74=287)	4 strokes	Jee Young Lee Maria Hjorth
14		CN Canadian Women's Open	-16 (70–65–64–69=268)	3 strokes	Paula Creamer
15		Safeway Classic	-12 (67–66–71=204)	5 strokes	Inbee Park Christina Kim Sophie Gustafson Mhairi McKay
16		Samsung World Championship	-18 (68–67–69–66=270)	4 strokes	Mi Hyun Kim
17		ADT Championship	-4 (70-70-66–68)	2 strokes	Natalie Gulbis
18		HSBC Women's Champions	-20 (66–65–69–68=268)	11 strokes	Annika Sörenstam
19		Safeway International	-22 (65–67–68–66=266)	7 strokes	Jee Young Lee
20		Kraft Nabisco Championship	-11 (68–71–71–67=277)	5 strokes	Annika Sörenstam Suzann Pettersen
21		Corona Championship	-25 (66–66–66–69=267)	11 strokes	Song-Hee Kim
22		Ginn Open	-18 (68–67–65–69=269)	3 strokes	Yani Tseng
23		Sybase Classic	-10 (68–67–71=206)	1 stroke	Morgan Pressel Na Yeon Choi Catriona Matthew Sophie Gustafson Brittany Lang
24		Navistar LPGA Classic	-15 (67–67–69–70=273)	Playoff	Candie Kung Cristie Kerr
25		Honda LPGA Thailand	-14 (71–69–68–66=274)	3 strokes	Hee Young Park
26		Corona Championship	-25 (65–65–69–68=267)	1 stroke	Suzann Pettersen
27		Navistar LPGA Classic	-18 (66–68–66–70=270)	4 strokes	Brittany Lang Michelle Wie

LPGA Tour playoff record (2-5)

!No.!!Year!!Tournament!!Opponent(s)!!Result
1	2005	Safeway International	Annika Sörenstam	Lost with par on first extra hole
2	2006	SBS Open at Turtle Bay	Joo Mi Kim Soo Young Moon	Kim won with birdie on second extra holeOchoa eliminated with birdie on first hole
3	2006	Kraft Nabisco Championship	Karrie Webb	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
4	2007	Ginn Tribute Hosted by Annika	Nicole Castrale	Lost to par on first extra hole
5	2007	Wegmans LPGA	In-Kyung Kim	Won with par on second extra hole
6	2007	Longs Drugs Challenge	Suzann Pettersen	Lost to birdie on second extra hole
7	2008	Navistar LPGA Classic	Cristie Kerr Candie Kung	Won with par on second extra holeKerr eliminated with par on first hole

LPGA Majors are shown in bold.

Major championships[link]

Wins (2)[link]

{|class="wikitable" border="1" |- !Year!!Championship!!Winning Score!!Margin!!Runner(s)-up |- style="background:#abcdef;" | 2007 ||Ricoh Women's British Open ||−5 (67–73–73–74=287) ||4 strokes|| Maria Hjorth, Jee Young Lee |- style="background:#d0f0c0;" | 2008 ||Kraft Nabisco Championship ||−11 (68–71–71–67=277) ||5 strokes || Suzann Pettersen, Annika Sörenstam |}

Results timeline[link]

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- style="background:#eee;" !align="left"|Tournament !! 2000 !! 2001 !! 2002 !! 2003 !! 2004 !! 2005 !! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008 !! 2009 !! 2010 |- |Kraft Nabisco Championship |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T21 LA |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|8 LA |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|3 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T8 |align="center"|T35 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|2 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T10 |align="center" style="background:lime;"|1 |align="center"|T12 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|4 |- |LPGA Championship |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T20 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T8 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T5 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T9 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T6 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T3 |align="center"|T23 |align="center"|DNP |- |U.S. Women's Open |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|WD |align="center"|T13 |align="center"|T44 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T6 |align="center"|T20 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T2 |align="center"|T31 |align="center"|T26 |align="center"|DNP |- |Women's British Open |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T24 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|4 |align="center"|CUT |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T4 |align="center" style="background:lime;"|1 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T7 |align="center"|T28 |align="center"|DNP |}

DNP = did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut WD = withdrew LA = low amateur "T" = tied Green background for a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish.

LPGA Tour career summary[link]

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- style="background:#eee;" ! Year!! Eventsplayed!! Cuts made!! Wins!! 2nd!! 3rd!! Top 10s !! Bestfinish !! Earnings ($)!! Rank ($)!! Scoring average !! Scoring rank |- |align="center"|2000 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|CUT |align="right"|n/a |align="center"| |align="center"|76.50 |align="center"| |- |align="center"|2001 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|T7 |align="right"|n/a |align="center"| |align="center"|70.75 |align="center"| |- |align="center"|2002¹ |align="center"|5 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|T5 |align="right"|19, 080 |align="center"| |align="center"|71.00 |align="center"| |- |align="center"|2003 |align="center"|24 |align="center"|23 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|8 |align="center"|2 |align="right"|823,740 |align="center"|9 |align="center"|70.97 |align="center"| |- |align="center"|2004 |align="center"|27 |align="center"|27 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|5 |align="center"|18 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|1,450,824 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|70.02 |align="center"|3 |- |align="center"|2005 |align="center"|23 |align="center"|20 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|10 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|1,201,786 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|71.39 |align="center"|9 |- |align="center"|2006 |align="center"|25 |align="center"|25 |align="center"|6 |align="center"|6 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|20 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|2,592,872 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|69.24 |align="center"|1 |- |align="center"|2007 |align="center"|25 |align="center"|25 |align="center"|8 |align="center"|5 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|21 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|4,364,994 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|69.68 |align="center"|1 |- |align="center"|2008 |align="center"|22 |align="center"|22 |align="center"|7 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|17 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|2,763,193 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|69.70 |align="center"|1 |- |align="center"|2009 |align="center"|22 |align="center"|22 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|13 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|1,489,395 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|70.16 |align="center"|1 |- |align="center"|2010 |align="center"|6 |align="center"|6 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|4 |align="right"|176,527 |align="center"|53 |align="center"|71.92 |align="center"|n/a² |} ¹The first three events of 2002 were played as an amateur, the missed cutwas an injury withdrawal (neck) prior to the second round of the 2002 U.S. Women's Open.²The LPGA did not include Ochoa in the final 2010 scoring average rankings.

Honors and awards[link]

2001

Mexico National Sports Award _(a)

2002

Futures Tour Rookie of the Year

Futures Tour Player of the Year

2003

LPGA Rookie of the Year

2006

Mexico National Sports Award ₍₂₎

AP Female Athlete of the Year

Mexico Athlete of the Year

LPGA Rolex Player of the Year

LPGA Tour Money Winner

LPGA Vare Trophy

Golf Writers Association of America Female Player of the Year

2007

LPGA Rolex Player of the Year ₍₂₎

LPGA Tour Money Winner ₍₂₎

LPGA Vare Trophy ₍₂₎

Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year

Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year

Mexico National Sports Award ₍₃₎

Golf Writers Association of America Female Player of the Year ₍₂₎

AP Female Athlete of the Year ₍₂₎

EFE Sportswoman of the Year

Heather Farr Player Award‎

2008

Best International Athlete ESPY Award

LPGA Rolex Player of the Year ₍₃₎

LPGA Tour Money Winner ₍₃₎

LPGA Vare Trophy ₍₃₎

Golf Writers Association of America Female Player of the Year ₍₃₎

2009

LPGA Rolex Player of the Year ₍₄₎

LPGA Vare Trophy ₍₄₎

2011

Bob Jones Award

See also[link]

Golfers with most LPGA Tour wins

Notes and references[link]

External links[link]

Official website and

Arizona Wildcats.com - women's golf - Lorena Ochoa - 2001

Category:Mexican golfers Category:Female golfers Category:Arizona Wildcats women's golfers Category:LPGA Tour golfers Category:Winners of LPGA major golf championships Category:People from Guadalajara, Jalisco Category:1981 births Category:Living people

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Letwins	3
Klpgawins	1
Nabisco	T4: 2012
Lpga	T9: 2009
Wusopen	T5: 2010
Wbritopen	4th: 2011 }}

Amy Yang, also known as Yang Hee-Young (, born 28 July 1989) is a Korean professional golfer, currently playing on the United States-based LPGA Tour and on the Ladies European Tour (LET).

Amateur career[link]

Yang began playing golf at age 10 in her native Korea and moved to the Gold Coast of Australia with her family at age 15 to pursue golf more seriously.

In 2005 she won the Queensland Amateur Championship, the youngest winner ever of that championship. In 2006, while still an amateur she won the ANZ Ladies Masters on the Ladies European Tour (LET), making her the youngest winner ever on the LET at age .

Professional career[link]

After her win in at the ANZ Ladies Masters, the LET offered Yang a special three-year membership exemption beginning in 2006 as a 17-year old, providing she traveled with her parents until she turned 18. She recorded four top-20 finishes in 2007 while still attended high school.

Yang attended LPGA Tour qualifying school in the fall of 2007 and obtained conditional status on the LPGA Tour as well for 2008.

In June 2008, Yang claimed her second LET win with a four-shot win at the Ladies German Open. Upon winning, Yang announced that she was donating her entire prize of $61,260 to victims of a recent earthquake in China.

That December, she returned to the LPGA Qualifying School, this time earning full playing status for 2009 by finishing second in the five-round event.

Personal life[link]

Yang lives with her father, Joon Mo (James), mother, Sun Hee (Sunny), and younger brother, Steven. In the fall of 2007 the family moved from Australia to Orlando, Florida.

Professional wins (4)[link]

LET wins (3)[link]

2006 (1) ANZ Ladies Masters (won as an amateur)

2008 (2) Ladies German Open, Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika

KLPGA wins (1)[link]

2011 (1) KB Star Championship

Results in LPGA majors[link]

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" !align="left"|Tournament !! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008 !! 2009 !! 2010 !! 2011 !! 2012 |- |Kraft Nabisco Championship |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T27 |align="center"|T19 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T4 |- |LPGA Championship |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|DNP |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T9 |align="center"|T14 |align="center"|T12 |align="center"| |- |U.S. Women's Open |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|T50 |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|T34 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T5 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T10 |align="center"| |- |Women's British Open |align="center"|T60 |align="center"|DNP |align="center"|CUT |align="center"|CUT |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|T5 |align="center" style="background:yellow;"|4 |align="center"| |}

DNP = did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" = tied Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

LPGA Tour record[link]

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" ! Year !! EventsPlayed !! Cuts Made !! Wins !! 2nds !! 3rds !! Top 10s !! Best finish !! Earnings($) !! Moneylist rank !! ScoringAverage !! Rank |- |align="center"|2006 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|T52 |align="center"|n/a |align="center"|n/a |align="center"|74.38 |align="center"|n/a |- |align="center"|2007 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|T50 |align="right"|17,100 |align="center"|n/a |align="center"|74.38 |align="center"|n/a |- |align="center"|2008 |align="center"|7 |align="center"|5 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|T9 |align="right"|60,834 |align="center"|129 |align="center"|72.45 |align="center"|n/a |- |align="center"|2009 |align="center"|23 |align="center"|19 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|T3 |align="right"|302,816 |align="center"|45 |align="center"|71.68 |align="center"|29 |- |align="center"|2010 |align="center"|22 |align="center"|22 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|6 |align="center"|2 |align="right"|765,930 |align="center"|14 |align="center"|71.09 |align="center"|13 |- |align="center"|2011 |align="center"|20 |align="center"|18 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|7 |align="center"|2 |align="right"|890,939 |align="center"|9 |align="center"|70.82 |align="center"|5 |} official as of 23 October 2011

References[link]

External links[link]

Amy Yang Rookie Blog on lpga.com

Seoul Sisters Profile

Amy Yang Pictures

Category:South Korean female golfers Category:Ladies European Tour golfers Category:LPGA Tour golfers Category:1989 births Category:Living people