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1994 Espirito Santo Trophy
The 1994 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 28 September – 1 October at Le Golf National in Guyancourt south-west of Paris, France. It was the 16th women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy and 30-year anniversary of the inaugural event in 1964, which also was held in France, close to Paris. At the time of the 1994 championship, its initiator in 1964, Lally Segard, retired from her position, after serving for 30 years, as chairperson of the women's committee of the organizing World Amateur Golf Council, when the championship returned to her home town. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 29 team entries, each with three players. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total. The United States team won the Trophy for their 12th title, beating South Korea by four strokes. South Korea earned the silver medal while the Sweden team took the bronze on third place another stroke back. Defending champions Spain fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Golf National
The Albatros course at Le Golf National is an 18-hole golf course in France, near Paris. Designed by architects Hubert Chesneau and Robert Von Hagge, in collaboration with Pierre Thevenin, it is located in Guyancourt, southwest of central Paris. Facilities Construction began in July 1987, and it debuted over three years later, on 5 October 1990, opened by Roger Bambuck, Minister of Youth and Sports. Le Golf National has a capacity for 80,000 spectators. The Albatros (Albatross) is the main championship course, par 72 at . The other courses are the Aigle (Eagle), par 71 and , and the short nine-hole Oiselet (Birdie) course is par 32. Tournaments Le Golf National hosts the Open de France on the European Tour, the oldest national open in continental Europe. First played at Le Golf National in 1991, it has been held there every year since, except on two occasions (1999, 2001). Le Golf National hosted the Ryder Cup in 2018. The facility is scheduled to host the golfing co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne-Marie Knight
Anne-Marie Knight (born 18 August 1970) is an Australian professional golfer who played on the Ladies European Tour (LET) 1996–2006. She was the 1996 LET Rookie of the Year and won the 1999 Ladies' German Open . Ameteur career Knight had a successful amateur career and won the 1993 Australian Women's Amateur. In 1995, she was runner-up at the U.S. Women's Amateur at Brookline, having lost the final to Kelli Kuehne, 4 and 3. She represented Australia at the 1991 Tasman Cup, the Queen Sirikit Cup in China (1992) and Indonesia (1994), the 1994 Espirito Santo Trophy at Le Golf National in Paris, and won the 1995 Astor Trophy at Royal Sydney Golf Club. Professional career Knight turned professional in 1995 and finished second in the Q-School at La Manga to join the Ladies European Tour in 1996. She became the LET Rookie of the Year, following three runner-up finishes at the Women's Welsh Open, Danish Ladies Open and Ladies European Open. In 1997, she was solo runner-up at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mi-Hyun Kim
Mi-Hyun Kim ( ko, 김미현, born 13 January 1977) is a professional golfer from South Korea. She turned professional in 1996 and won 11 events on the LPGA of Korea Tour (KLPGA) between 1996 and 2000. In 1999, she joined the LPGA Tour and was named was Rookie of the Year that year. She has won eight LPGA events with her best finish in a women's majors, major championship second place at the 2001 Women's British Open. Background Born in Incheon, Kim received the nicknamed "Peanut" because she stands only tall. LPGA golfers also refer to her as "Kimmy." She was inspired to move to the United States by Se Ri Pak, and they along with Grace Park (golfer), Grace Park and Hee-Won Han – the four nicknamed the "Seoul Sisters" – are considered pioneers in the surge of outstanding South Korean women's golfers on the LPGA Tour. Her swing is characterized by an unusually long backswing that has become shorter in recent years. Charitable giving In May 2007, Kim donated $100,000 of her $ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandy Adamson
Mandy Adamson (9 March 1972 – 26 July 2022) was a South African professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She became the first to win the South African Women's Open three times. Career Adamson enjoyed a successful career as one of South Africa's leading female golfers. She won multiple titles as an amateur, including becoming South African Amateur champion three times. She was a semi-finalist at the British Ladies Amateur in 1994 and represented South Africa in the Espirito Santo Trophy twice. Adamson turned professional in 1994 and joined the Ladies European Tour where she played until 2004. She played in the 2003 Women's British Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club where she missed the cut by one stroke after rounds of 75 and 73. She also played in South Africa where she won three South African Women's Open and two South African Women's Masters, and topped the Order of Merit in 2002. Death Adamson died from cancer in July 2022 at age 50. Professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vibeke Stensrud
Vibeke Stensrud (born 29 September 1973) is a Norwegian professional golfer. She won the 1993 European Ladies Amateur Championship and played on the Ladies European Tour between 1997 and 2005, with two runner-up finishes. Amateur career Stensrud started playing golf at 7 and joined the National Team before she was 15. She won the Norwegian National Golf Championship four times (1990, 1991, 1993 and 1995) and the European Ladies Amateur Championship in 1993. She represented Norway at the Espirito Santo Trophy three times, and the Continent of Europe at the Vagliano Trophy in 1993 and 1995, winning the latter. Stensrud attended San Jose State University on a golf scholarship, and was one of three finalists for the Honda Sports Award in 1994–95. Professional career Stensrud turned professional in 1996 and joined the Ladies European Tour in 1997. She finished 58th on the Order of Merit in her rookie season, and 82nd in 1998 after sustaining an injury to her right arm. She play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilie Lundgreen
Cecilie Lundgreen (born 6 February 1973) is a Norwegian professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour between 1999 and 2013, where her best finish was runner-up at the South African Women's Masters in 2001. Amateur career Lundgreen won the 1991 Norwegian Junior Championship and the 1994 Norwegian National Golf Championship. She represented Norway at the 1994 Espirito Santo Trophy, together with Line Berg and Vibeke Stensrud. Lundgreen attended Florida Atlantic University on a golf scholarship 1994–1997. She made an immediate impact, capturing Atlantic Sun Conference Golfer of the Year honors in 1994 after winning the conference tournament as a freshman. She was all-conference selection four times and was named FAU Female Student-Athlete of the Year in 1997, and inducted into the FAU Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. Professional career Lundgreen turned professional in 1998 and played a year on the Swedish Golf Tour where her best finish was solo third at the 1998 Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynnette Brooky
Lynnette Teresa Brooky (born 25 January 1968) is a New Zealand professional golfer. She turned professional in 1994 and has spent her career playing mainly on the Ladies European Tour (LET). She has won four LET tournaments including back to back French Opens, one Telia Tour event in Sweden and a further four in Australia. Her best finish on the LET Order of Merit through 2005 was fifth in 2003. She represented New Zealand in the 2005 and 2007 Women's World Cup of Golf. With career earnings now approaching €1 million, she has placed in the top-20 seven times on the LET Order of Merit and has also amassed a further 56 top-10 finishes worldwide. Personal life Brooky has of late become more involved in a specialist teaching career following her marriage to English PGA Golf Professional Ian Godleman. EGTF qualified, she teaches at Titahi Bay Golf Club while also teaching at various locations worldwide including Greece, Mauritius, South Africa and her native New Zealand where sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riko Higashio
is a Japanese professional golfer and former member of the LPGA Tour. Amateur career Higashio was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As a teenager, she won the 1993 Japan Amateur Championship and the 1994 Japan Junior Championship. Higashio first attended Nihon University in Tokyo. She accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, United States, where she played for the Florida Gators women's golf team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1996 to 1998. Higashio won four tournaments as a college golfer. She was recognized as the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Freshman of the Year in 1996, and was a first-team All-SEC selection in 1996, 1997 and 1998, an honorable mention All-American in 1996, and a first-team All-American in 1998. She was also honored as a member of the National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team and graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty Speak
Kirsty Anne Taylor (born 18 June 1971) is an English professional golfer who played on the Ladies European Tour. She competed as Kirsty Speak before she married Alistair Taylor in 1997. Taylor learned her golf at Clitheroe Golf Club where her parents Ted and Jean Anne Speak and her brother were also members. As an amateur, she was English Intermediate Champion 1992 and 1993, runner-up at the 1993 British Ladies Amateur Championship, and British Strokeplay Champion in 1994. She represented Great Britain & Ireland at the Curtis Cup and Vagliano Trophy. In 2000, Taylor finished runner-up at the LPGA Tour co-sanctioned Women's British Open and at the Mexx Sport Open. She set a course record and Ladies European Tour record low round of eleven-under-par 61 to win the 2005 Wales Ladies Championship of Europe. In addition, in 2007, she was runner-up at the Catalonia Ladies Masters, Ladies English Open, De Vere Ladies Scottish Open and the Nykredit Masters, where she lost a playoff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Hall (golfer)
Julie Pauline Hall ( Wade, later Otto, born 10 March 1967) is an English golfer. She won the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship twice, in 1990 and 1995, and the English Women's Amateur Championship three times. She played in five Curtis Cup matches from 1988 to 1996. She turned professional in 2011 to follow a career in golf tuition. Golf career Hall first came to prominence at the age of 20, when she won the 1987 English Women's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Northumberland golf club, winning by 7 strokes from Alison Johns. The following week she won the English Intermediate Championship at Sheringham, a match-play event for women aged between 18 and 23, beating Sara Robinson 2&1 in the final. Earlier in the year she had made her senior debut for England in the European Ladies' Team Championship at Turnberry. In 1987 she also made her first appearance in the Women's Home Internationals, played that year at Ashburnham. England won the event, with Hall unbeaten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Fischer
Martina Fischer (born 29 September 1970 in Bad Nauheim) is a German professional golfer. She has competed, and won tournaments, on both the Ladies European Tour and LPGA Tour. Amateur wins *1994 European Ladies Amateur Championship Professional wins (4) LPGA Tour wins (1) Ladies European Tour wins (2) * 1996 McDonald's WPGA Championship of Europe *2000 Dutch Ladies Open Ladies Asian Golf Tour wins (1) *1998 Indonesia Ladies Open Team appearances Amateur *Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Germany): 1988, 1990, 1994 *European Ladies' Team Championship The European Ladies' Team Championship is a European amateur team golf championship for women organised by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1959. It was played in odd-numbered years from 1959 to 2007 and has been pla ... (representing Germany): 1993 Sources: References External links * * German female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers LPGA Tour golfers People from Bad Nauheim S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riikka Hakkarainen
Riikka Hakkarainen (born 23 May 1977) is a Finnish professional golfer who played on the Ladies European Tour between 1998 and 2011. She won the 2006 Tenerife Ladies Open. Amateur career Hakkarainen was born in Espoo, Finland, and played for the Finnish National Ladies Team from the age of 15. She won the Nordic Girls Championship twice, in 1995 and 1996, and the Scottish Girls Strokeplay Championship and the Greece Women's Amateur in 1996. She also finished 3rd in the British Girls Amateur Championship in 1995, and represented Finland in the 1994 and 1996 Espirito Santo Trophy, the World Amateur Golf Team Championships. In 1995, a few days before her 18th birthday, Hakkarainen was runner-up in the Rörstrand Ladies Open on the Swedish Golf Tour, one stroke behind winner Sara Eklund. Professional career Hakkarainen turned professional in 1997, at only 19 years old, and joined the Swedish Golf Tour. In her rookie season her best result was as runner-up at the Swedish PGA Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
