| Profile |
Name: Lorena Ochoa
Birth Date: November 15, 1981
Birth Place: Guadalajara, Jalisco
Height: 5'6"
Parents: Javier and Marcela
Siblings: 2 brothers, 1 sister
College: University of Arizona
Turned Pro: 2002
| | Stats - Records | *Pro Wins: 19 (16 LPGA - 3 Futures)
| | *2001 Mexico National Sports Award | | *2002 Futures Tour Rookie of the Year | | *2002 Futures Tour Player of the Year | | *2003 Nancy Lopez Award | | *2003 LPGA Rookie of the Year | | *2005 LPGA Championship - T5 | | *2006 Kraft Nabisco - 2nd | | *2006 Mexico National Sports Award | | *2006 AP Female Athlete of the Year | | *2006 Mexico Athlete of the Year | | *2006 LPGA Rolex Player of the Year | | *2006 LPGA Tour Money Winner | | *2006 LPGA Vare Trophy | | *2006 GWAA Female Player of the Year | | *2007 U.S. Open - T2 | | *2007 Won British Open | | | *2007 LPGA Rolex Player of the Year | | *2007 LPGA Tour Money Winner |
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| Career Highlights |
Started playing golf when she was five.
Won her first state event when she was six.
Won her first national event when she was seven.
Captured 22 state events and 44 national events in Mexico as a junior.
Won five consecutive titles at the Junior World Golf Championships.
Enrolled at the University of Arizona in 2000.
NCAA Player of the Year Award in 2001 and runner-up at NCAA National Championships.
Named to the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) 2001 All-America First team.
Won the 2001 Pac-10 Women's Golf Championship.
Named PAC-10 Freshman/
Newcomer of the Year 2001.
All Pac-10 First team in 2001.
Won Golfstat Cup in 2001 and 2002 setting the single-season NCAA scoring average record as a freshman
Youngest recipient, and first golfer, to receive her country's highest sporting accolade - Mexico's National Sports Award.
Became the World Number One ranked golfer, surpassing Annika Sörenstam, April 2007.
In August 2007 won her first major championship - the Women's British Open.
First to win three consecutive events since Annika Sörenstam in 2005 (2007 British Open, CN Canadian Women's Open, Safeway Classic).
In 2007 became the first woman ever to earn more than $3,000,000 in a single season, surpasing Annika Sorenstam's previous record of $2,863,904.
Lorena is an extraordinary athlete. As a youth she participated in biking, running, swimming, snowboarding, volleyball, and mountain climbing (she summated her first mountain at age eleven!).
She also played competitive tennis, as well as golf and won tournaments in both!
But everything came second to golf, and when her father explained that she would have to give up one to become a champion in the other, Lorena picked golf. |
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