Erica Paige Blasberg
(July 14, 1984 – May 9, 2010) was an American
professional golfer
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who played on the
LPGA Tour
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. She attended the
University of Arizona
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T ...
, and was the country's number 1 ranked college player as a freshman. She won the 2004
Laconia Savings Bank Golf Classic.
Early life
Blasberg was born in
Orange, California
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, to Debra (who worked for Avis) and Mel Blasberg (who at the time worked in the automobile business, and then as a golf coach).
She was Jewish. She was raised in
Corona, California
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, 40 miles east of Los Angeles.
Her father had been raised on
Long Island, New York
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, and attended
Plainview High School, where he played for the golf team.
She attended Coronita Elementary. She then went to
Corona High School
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, where she had a 4.0 GPA, starred on the boys' golf team, and was the Mountain View League individual champion and MVP, graduating in 2002.
Amateur career
Blasberg was the medalist at the 2000
U.S. Girls' Junior The United States Girls' Junior Championship is one of the thirteen U.S. national golf championships organized by the United States Golf Association. It is open to amateur girls who are under 19 on the last day of the competition and have a USGA ha ...
, and lost in the quarterfinals. She won the 2002 Rolex Tournament of Champions. In 2003, she reached the quarterfinals of the
U.S. Women's Amateur
The U.S. Women's Amateur is the leading golf tournament in the United States for female amateur golfers. It is played annually and is one of the 13 United States national golf championships organized by the United States Golf Association (USGA). F ...
.
College
She attended the
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory.
T ...
, and was the country's number 1 ranked college player as a freshman, compiling six victories for the
Arizona Wildcats
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before leaving in her sophomore year to turn pro.
Blasberg was an
All-American golfer in 2003 and 2004, 2003
NCAA
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Freshman of the Year, 2003
Pac-10
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Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year, and won the 2003 Golfstat Cup, awarded for having the NCAA women's lowest stroke average (72.36).
''
Golfweek
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History and profile
The magazine was founded in 1975 by Charley Stine and was originally named ''Florida ...
'' put her on its cover.
In 2004, she was on the winning United States
Curtis Cup
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team against Great Britain and Ireland.
Professional career
Blasberg turned professional in June 2004, at 19 years of age, and played on the
LPGA Futures Tour
The Epson Tour, previously known as the LPGA Futures Tour, and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed Futures Tour and between 2012 and 2021 as the Symetra Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour ...
that season.
She won the
Laconia Savings Bank Golf Classic, and en route to her first professional win broke the Future Tour's 18-hole scoring record, shooting a 62.
She earned non-exempt status for the LPGA Tour at the 2004
LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament
In professional golf, the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S.-based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the ...
.
Blasberg started on the
LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekl ...
in 2005, making the cut in most of her early events but not contending for top positions. She was disqualified from the
Chick-fil-A Charity Championship
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in May 2005, after scoring a low 70-the lowest round of her season, when she accidentally walked 10 steps from the scoring tent before returning to it to give in her card, after taking photographs with fans and signing autographs, before submitting her scorecard which she had signed.
[
] Blasberg later told reporters that the rule infraction was poorly handled by the officials, and that she should not have received a penalty.
[
] The next week she made a
hole in one
In golf, a hole in one or hole-in-one (also known as an ace, mostly in American English) occurs when a ball hit from a tee to start a hole finishes in the cup. A ball hit from a tee following a lost ball, out-of-bounds, or water hazard is not a ho ...
and won a
Mercury
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* Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg
* Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to:
Companies
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SUV
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There is no commonly agreed-upon definitio ...
. At mid-season she fired her caddie, because she "needed a change."
[
] She was chosen to play in the 2005
Lexus Cup
The Lexus Cup was an annual golf tournament played between 2005 and 2008 for professional women golfers contested by a team representing Asia and an international team representing the rest of the world. It was sanctioned by the LPGA Tour, , where she won two matches and halved another, including a 98-yard hole out on the 18th to win a match. She ended 2005 109th on the money list.
In 2006, despite a late season rally she once again finished just outside the top 100 on the money list at # 112,
but a successful tournament at
Qualifying School
In professional golf, the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S.-based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the ...
in the fall of 2006 won her exempt status for 2007 — the first and only time in her career she had exempt status on the LPGA Tour.
In 2007, she finished 104th on the money list. Blasberg chose not to return to Qualifying School, leaving her once again as a non-exempt player for 2008. In 2008, she earned a career-best tie for eighth at the
SBS Open in
Hawaii
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, and over $113,000 ($ in current dollar terms) in winnings.
Her results were only marginally better than in 2007. She played 23 tournaments and, while she did earn the only top-10 finish of her career, she again finished near the bottom of the LPGA money list.
Blasberg returned again to Qualifying School in 2009 in an attempt to improve her status on Tour for the 2010 season, but withdrew after shooting rounds of 72 and 78 in the final stage of the Tournament. In 2009 she was 128th on the money list.
She entered 2010 with limited playing opportunities and played just one tournament, the
Tres Marias Championship
The Tres Marias Championship was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour, played from 2005 to 2010, at Tres Marias Residential Golf Club in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico.
From 2005 through 2009 the title sponsor of the tournament wa ...
in
Morelia, Mexico
Morelia (; from 1545 to 1828 known as Valladolid) is a city and municipal seat of the municipality of Morelia in the north-central part of the state of Michoacán in central Mexico. The city is in the Guayangareo Valley and is the capital and larg ...
, where she finished 44th after Monday qualifying for the event.
During the tournament week, Blasberg participated in a "Back to College" event at which she joined fellow players
Mina Harigae
Mina Harigae (born November 1, 1989) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.
As an amateur golfer, she won the 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links. Harigae won the California Women's Amateur Championship for four ...
and
Mariajo Uribe
María José Uribe Durán (known more commonly as Mariajo Uribe; born 27 February 1990) is a professional golfer from Colombia, currently playing on the LPGA Tour.
Amateur career
Uribe was born in Girón, Santander. At age 17, she won the 20 ...
in visiting student-athletes at the Universidad Latina De America in Morelia to answer questions on golf and education.
[
]
Blasberg was considered one of the LPGA's more photogenic players, and in February 2006
Puma signed her to a multi-year endorsement deal, to be the first female golfer to endorse and wear their clothing.
[
][
] She has been compared to
Natalie Gulbis
Natalie Anne Gulbis (born January 7, 1983) is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.
Golf career
Gulbis was born and raised in the Sacramento, California, area. She has Latvian ancestry. Gulbis started finding ...
, an LPGA golfer who did a swimsuit calendar.
[
] She also was signed to endorsement deals with
Casio
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and
Cleveland Golf
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.
Death
Blasberg was found dead with a plastic bag secured over her head in her bed at her home in
Anthem Country Club in
Henderson, Nevada
Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about southeast of downtown Las Vegas. It is the second largest city in Nevada, after Las Vegas, with an estimated population of 320,189 in 2019. The city is part of the Las Vegas Vall ...
, outside of Las Vegas, on the afternoon of May 9, 2010.
[
][
][
][
] Officers had been dispatched in response to a 911 call by Dr. Thomas Hess, Blasberg's doctor, around 3:00 p.m. (
PT).
[Erica Blasberg's Death Ruled Suicide; Golfer's Doctor Arrested](_blank)
CBS News, August 25, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2010. In an interview with the
Riverside County
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''
Press-Enterprise
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'' on May 10, Blasberg's father, Mel Blasberg, said: "At first glance it looks like she might have taken her own life, but at second glance, something is very, very strange about it. We're waiting for the police to make an investigation."
Two days before she died, Blasberg and the married 43-year-old Hess played golf at the
Southern Highlands Golf Club
Southern Highlands Golf Club is a private club with a championship 18-hole golf course and a highly affluent neighborhood located in the Southern Highlands area of the Las Vegas Valley. The golf course was co-designed by Robert Trent Jones and hi ...
outside Las Vegas.
Her friend Jay Beckman saw her on the course, and said "She was making fun of my shirt. She seemed fine. She seemed normal. She seemed like Erica." Hess and Blasberg then went to a hotel in Henderson, where they watched a hockey game on TV in its lounge, and were seen touching hands and with the married Hess's hand on Blasberg's leg.
Hess bought a prepaid cellular telephone the next day, and used it only to call Blasberg, and drove to her home and later left what he said was a drunk Blasberg at what he said was 9 pm at her home the night before she died.
The coroner, however, said she had no alcohol in her system, only drugs.
Blasberg tried to call Hess about 3:30 a.m. the following morning, and Hess tried to call Blasberg eight times that morning starting at 5:13 a.m, and nine times that afternoon, before going to her home at 3 p.m. and discovering her body.
Blasberg was in bed with a dust mask over her mouth, and a plastic bag over her head, kept in place by rubber bands.
Hess then removed pills and a four-page handwritten letter addressed to “Whoever” and hid them in the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz.
Police later found Blasberg's suicide note and some of her prescription medications in the trunk of Hess's car.
According to her father's attorney, Hess had prescribed medications for Blasberg.
Missy Pederson, who was supposed to be Blasberg's
caddie
In golf, a caddie (or caddy) is the person who carries a player's bag and clubs, and gives the player advice and moral support.
Description
A good caddie is aware of the challenges and obstacles of the golf course being played, along with the ...
at a May 10 qualifying round for the
Bell Micro LPGA Classic
The Airbus LPGA Classic was a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour, played in Mobile, Alabama from 2008 to 2014.
The event debuted in September 2008 at the Magnolia Grove location on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, with tot ...
in
Mobile, Alabama
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, told ''
The New York Times
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'' that Blasberg had sent her a text at 4:03 AM on May 9.
In the message, Blasberg told Pederson she was not going to play in the tournament.
A worried Pederson sent a text back to Blasberg, asking if she was all right, but Blasberg never replied.
[
] However, Blasberg's agent revealed that Blasberg's bags were packed for a tournament in Mobile at the time of her death.
[
] Furthermore, the days before had been busy and appeared normal, with Blasberg working on her golf game, buying curtains for her bedroom at her father's house, and even having a round of
Botox
Botulinum toxin, or botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium ''Clostridium botulinum'' and related species. It prevents the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from axon endings at the neurom ...
injections.
On May 13, 2010, police in Henderson, Nevada, executed a search warrant and raided the home and office of Dr. Thomas Hess in the ongoing investigation into Blasberg's death; he had been with her the night that she died.
[
] The search warrant listed an anti-anxiety medication,
Xanax
Alprazolam, sold under the brand name Xanax, among others, is a fast-acting, potent tranquilizer of medium duration in the triazolobenzodiazepine (TBZD) class, which are benzodiazepines (BZDs) fused with a triazole ring. It is most commonly ...
, plastic garbage bags, and a sample of Hess' handwriting.
An inventory of the materials seized in the search of Hess' house included two computers, a cell phone, two video cameras, and a
GPS
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unit. A computer and white trash bags were seized from Hess' office.
Small white plastic trash bags, identical to ones seized from Hess' office or home, had been found next to Blasberg's bed. Blasberg's father appeared on ''
The Early Show
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'' on June 2, 2010, and denied that his daughter had been clinically depressed, in financial troubles, or unhappy with her recent performances.
On August 24, 2010, the
Clark County Coroner
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's office ruled Blasberg's death a
suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders (including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders), physical disorders (such as chronic fatigue syndrome), and s ...
.
Asphyxia
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was cited as the primary cause, with toxic levels of multiple
prescription drug
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s named as an additional "significant factor."
The drugs in Blasberg's system included pain relievers
codeine
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,
hydrocodone
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, and
tramadol
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, as well as
temazepam
Temazepam (sold under the brand names Restoril among others) is a medication of the benzodiazepine class which is generally used to treat severe or debilitating insomnia. It is taken by mouth. Temazepam is rapidly absorbed, and significant hypno ...
(a sleep aid),
alprazolam
Alprazolam, sold under the brand name Xanax, among others, is a fast-acting, potent tranquilizer of medium duration in the triazolobenzodiazepine (TBZD) class, which are benzodiazepines (BZDs) fused with a triazole ring. It is most commonly u ...
(Xanax; an anti-anxiety medication), and
butalbital
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(a migraine medication), according to the
coroner
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.
Nevada law does not permit the release of details on the amounts of medication.
Blasberg is interred at
Pacific View Memorial Park
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,
Corona del Mar
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, California.
Obstruction of Justice by Hess
Henderson police said foul play was not suspected.
However, they issued an
arrest warrant
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Canada
Arrest warrants are issued by a j ...
on
obstruction of justice
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charges for, and on August 24, 2010, arrested, Dr. Thomas Hess, who had called 911 to report his discovery of Blasberg's body.
Hess was released about 35 minutes after he was arrested and booked into jail, on $637 bail.
In November 2010, Hess admitted that he had removed a
suicide note
A suicide note or death note is a message left behind by a person who dies or intends to die by suicide.
A study examining Japanese suicide notes estimated that 25–30% of suicides are accompanied by a note. However, incidence rates may depe ...
and the prescription medication he had given Blasberg from her bedstand at the scene, hiding them in his car, he said, "to spare the family embarrassment"; he had never met the family.
Her suicide note said that Blasberg had attempted suicide many times in the months leading up to her death, and she said she felt lonely and tormented by the lack of success in her golf career. "I'm sad and don't want to be doing this right now," she said in the note. "Sorry for all the people I've hurt doing this, but please understand how miserable and sad I am, and that I feel no way of escaping it."
His actions followed his 911 call in which the emergency operator told Hess, "Try not to touch anything," and he replied, "Yes ma'am."
While Hess called in the suicide from Blasberg's home, when the police arrived they found Blasberg's body alone at the scene.
Hess temporarily stopped cooperating with the police.
Hess later pleaded guilty to
misdemeanor
A misdemeanor (American English, spelled misdemeanour elsewhere) is any "lesser" criminal act in some common law legal systems. Misdemeanors are generally punished less severely than more serious felonies, but theoretically more so than adm ...
obstruction, which carried maximum penalties of a $1,000 fine and six months in jail.
He was sentenced to one year’s
probation
Probation in criminal law is a period of supervision over an offender, ordered by the court often in lieu of incarceration.
In some jurisdictions, the term ''probation'' applies only to community sentences (alternatives to incarceration), such ...
, 40 hours of community service at Volunteers of Medicine of Southern Nevada, and impulse-control counseling.
Wrongful death lawsuit
Blasberg's parents filed a wrongful death and malpractice suit against Hess.
The case was decided on May 13, 2014. The jury found that Hess had no liability in the death.
Professional wins (1)
Futures Tour wins (1)
*2004 (1)
Laconia Savings Bank Golf Classic
Results in LPGA majors
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
LPGA Tour career summary
1Money list ranking as of May 2, 2010, at the end of her last tournament.
Team appearances
Amateur
*
Junior Ryder Cup
The Junior Ryder Cup is a team golf competition between Europe and the United States for junior golfers aged 18 and under. It is based on the men's Ryder Cup and is run by the same organisations, the PGA of America and Ryder Cup Europe.
The 2018 ...
(representing the United States): 1999
*
Curtis Cup
The Curtis Cup is the best known team trophy for women amateur golfers, awarded in the biennial Curtis Cup Match. It is co-organised by the United States Golf Association and The R&A and is contested by teams representing the United States and " ...
: (representing the United States):
2004
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Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
(winners)
Professional
*
Lexus Cup
The Lexus Cup was an annual golf tournament played between 2005 and 2008 for professional women golfers contested by a team representing Asia and an international team representing the rest of the world. It was sanctioned by the LPGA Tour, (representing International team):
2005
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(winners)
References
External links
*
"Puma and LPGA Golfer Erica Blasberg Interview,"February 3, 2009
"'Back to College' at Tres Marias Championship,"April 27, 2010
*
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