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2001 Women's British Open
The 2001 Women's British Open was held 2–5 August in England at Sunningdale Golf Club, southwest of London in Sunningdale Sunningdale is a large village with a retail area and a civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It takes up the extreme south-east corner of Berkshire, England. It has a railway station on the (London) Waterloo to Reading ..., Berkshire, England, Berkshire. It was the 25th edition of the Women's British Open, and the first as a Women's major golf championships, major championship on the LPGA Tour. It replaced the du Maurier Classic in Canada as the fourth and final major of the season. On Sunningdale's Old Course, Se-ri Pak won the third of her five major titles, two strokes ahead of runner-up Mi -Hyun Kim. Four strokes behind leader Catriona Matthew after 54 holes and tied for ninth, Pak eagled the first hole on Sunday and shot a final round for The event was televised by ESPN and ABC Sports in the United States and BBC Sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunningdale
Sunningdale is a large village with a retail area and a civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It takes up the extreme south-east corner of Berkshire, England. It has a railway station on the (London) Waterloo to Reading Line and is adjoined by green buffers including Sunningdale Golf Club and Wentworth Golf Club. Its northern peripheral estates adjoin Virginia Water Lake. Location Sunningdale adjoins Surrey, and lies across Sunninghill (from which it takes its name) from Ascot. It is south of Virginia Water Lake. It is centred west south-west of Charing Cross, London. The nearest major towns are spread 5.5 to 6.5 miles away: Bracknell, Camberley, Staines upon Thames and Woking. It is connected to two of these by the A30 old trunk road, via which Camberley benefits from a flyover over the main intersecting road (the A322) at Bagshot. Sunningdale has a railway station on the Waterloo to Reading line. The A30, here bypassed by the M3 motorway a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorie Kane
Lorie is a feminine name. It may refer to: People ;Given name *Lorie (singer) (full name Laure Pester) (born 1982), French singer *Lorie Conway, American independent producer and filmmaker *Lorie Griffin, American film and television actress *Lorie Kane (born 1964), Canadian professional golfer *Lorie Line (born 1958), American New Age pianist, composer, and performer *Lorie O'Clare, American author of erotic romance, romantic suspense and paranormal romance novels *Lorie Skjerven Gildea (born 1961), American attorney and Chief Justice *Lorie Tarshis (1911–1993), Canadian economist ;Middle name *Jill Lorie Hurst, American television soap opera writer and producer Film and television * ''Lorie'' (film), a 1984 Indian film directed by Vijay Talwar, starring Shabana Azmi and Farooq Shaikh *Lorie Brooks, a fictional character in ''The Young and the Restless'' Other uses *Lories and lorikeets Loriini is a tribe of small to medium-sized arboreal parrots characterized by their s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie Jones (golfer)
Rosie Jones (born November 13, 1959) is an American professional golfer, with 13 LPGA Tour career victories and nearly $8.4 million in tournament earnings. Amateur career Jones was born in Santa Ana, California. In her amateur career, she was a three time New Mexico Junior Champion (1974–76) and won the New Mexico State Championship in 1979. Jones attended Ohio State University where in 1981 she was an AIAW All-American. Professional career Jones qualified for the LPGA Tour by tying for seventh at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament in July 1982. Jones's best position on the LPGA money list was third in 1988, when she was tied as the winning-most player with three victories, including the LPGA World Championship; she won that championship with a one-shot victory over Liselotte Neumann, that year's U.S. Open champion. She completed her career with thirteen LPGA Tour titles. She also played for the United States in the Solheim Cup seven times. She placed second in a major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trish Johnson
Patricia Mary "Trish" Johnson (born 17 January 1966) is an English professional golfer. Early life and amateur career Johnson was born in Bristol. Her three brothers were all golfers, one of them was a professional golfer. She practiced other sports, like badminton, soccer and tennis. She preferred to not take golf lessons and learn by herself. She was South Western Champion in 1983 and 1984. In 1984 she was both England Under-23 and Under-21 Champion. In 1985 she won the English Women's Amateur Championship, was the English Women's Strokeplay Champion and repeated as England Under-23 Champion. In 1986 she represented GB & I in the Espirito Santo Trophy World Amateur Golf Team Championships and the Curtis Cup, where she won maximum points. Professional career Johnson turned professional in March 1987. She won three tournaments in her first year as a professional and was Rookie of Year on the Ladies European Tour in 1987. She won four tournaments in 1990 and won the 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Hedblom
Marlene Hedblom (born 13 November 1972 in Gävle) is a retired Swedish professional golfer. Early years Despite coming from a golfing family, she did not start playing until the age of 12 at Gävle Golf Club in Sweden. Her father Olle was en elite player, who later became a club professional and her two years elder brother Peter turned tournament professional 19 years old. In 1995, together with his father, she won the very first Swedish Two Generations Mixed Championship, played as foursome. Professional career She won the 1997 Ladies European Tour Final Qualifying School at La Manga, Spain, 5–8 December and turned professional. Hedblom had her most successful season in 2003 when she won the Biarritz Ladies Classic at Biarritz le Phare Golf Club in France in the last tournament on the Ladies European Tour season, with his father as a caddie. Her win meant that she and her brother Peter became the only brother and sister siblings, who have won on the European Tour and Ladie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Robbins
Kelly Robbins (born September 29, 1969) is a former American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1992 and won nine LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career. Amateur career Robbins was born in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. She started playing golf at the age of 8. She attended the University of Tulsa, where she was a member of the NCAA Championship team in 1988. Throughout her collegiate career, she won seven individual titles and twice was named a First-Team All-American. In 1991, she was honored as the NCAA Co-Player of the Year along with Annika Sörenstam and was the North and South Amateur Championship winner . Professional career Robbins joined the LPGA Tour in 1992. She qualified for the Tour on her first attempt. She has won nine tournaments on the tour, including one major, the 1995 McDonald's LPGA Championship. She was most successful in the mid-1990s, finishing in the top-10 on the money list four years in a row, from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Esterl
Elisabeth Esterl (born 29 August 1976) is a German professional golfer. Esterl was born in Dingolfing. She turned professional in 1997 and joined the Ladies European Tour (LET) soon afterwards. She has won two LET tournaments, the 2003 Tenerife Ladies Open and the 2004 KLM Ladies Open. Her best year was 2003, when she finished second on the LET Order of Merit and played for Europe in the Solheim Cup. Professional wins (3) Ladies European Tour wins (2) * 2003 Tenerife Ladies Open * 2004 KLM Ladies Open Other wins (1) *2000 Princess Lalla Meryem Cup Team appearances Amateur *European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Germany): 1995, 1997 *Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Germany): 1996 Professional *Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 2003 (winners) *World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Head
Johanna Head (born 28 February 1973) is an English professional golfer who played on the Ladies European Tour (LET) and the LPGA Tour. She competed as Johanna Mundy following her marriage to Terry Mundy, caddie to Ian Poulter. Head was born in Ascot, Berkshire and her twin sister Samantha is also a professional golfer. She joined the Ladies European Tour in 1997 and won two unofficial tournaments, the Lalla Meryem Cup in 2002 and 2003. She won her first professional title in 1999, the Malaysian Open. Head led by three strokes going into the final round of the 2002 Wales WPGA Championship of Europe but posted a 79 in the final round and finished T6. She was runner-up at the 2002 Tenerife Ladies Open and the 1998 Compaq Open, ten strokes behind Annika Sörenstam. Head first gained non-exempt status for the 2000 LPGA Tour, but played sparingly on the LPGA tour and mostly on the LET until in 2003 when she had fully exempt status and got in close to a full season on the LPGA Tour. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Davies
Dame Laura Jane Davies, (born 5 October 1963) is an English female professional golfer. She has achieved the status of her nation's most accomplished female golfer of modern times, being the first non-American to finish at the top of the LPGA money list as well as winning the Ladies European Tour (LET) Order of Merit a record seven times: in 1985, 1986, 1992, 1996, 1999, 2004 and 2006. As of 2018, Davies has 87 professional wins worldwide, with 20 on the LPGA Tour, including four majors. From 1985 to 2010, she won at least one individual title somewhere in the world every season, except for 2005, and was the first golfer, male or female, to win tournaments on five continents in one year. She is a member of U.S.-based LPGA Tour and a life member of the Ladies European Tour. She was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015. Amateur career A native of Coventry, Davies began as an amateur international player for Great Britain, compiling a notable record. She was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janice Moodie
Janice C. Moodie (born 31 May 1973) is a Scottish professional golfer who plays mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour but is also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Amateur career Moodie was born in Glasgow. At age 11, she was taught to play golf by her mother, a former 6-handicap amateur, aWindyhill Golf Clubin Bearsden, Scotland. At age 16, she left school and started working in a grocery store and Greaves sporting-goods shop in Glasgow. She had to postpone her college enrollment when her mother suffered a brain aneurysm that left her with tunnel-vision blindness and for the next three and a half years Moodie worked in the winter (including a few weeks in a nightclub) so she could play competitive amateur golf in the summer. During this period she won the 1992 Scottish Women's Strokeplay Championship and represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup in 1994 when her win over Carol Semple Thompson in the final singles match secured a 9- 9 tie keeping the Curtis C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', ''Ski Sunday'', ''Today at Wimbledon'' and previously '' Grandstand''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. '' Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four coloured rings. This practice continued throughout the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
