Johanna Head (born 28 February 1973) is an

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professional

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er who played on the

Ladies European Tour The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1978. It is based at Buckinghamshire Golf Club near London in England. Like many UK-based sports organisations it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal stru ...

(LET) and 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 ...

. She competed as Johanna Mundy following her marriage to Terry Mundy, caddie to

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. Head was born in Ascot,

Berkshire Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berk ...

and her twin sister

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is also a professional golfer. She joined the

in 1997 and won two unofficial tournaments, the

Lalla Meryem Cup The Lalla Meryem Cup is a women's professional golf tournament in Morocco under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI. It was held in Rabat until it moved to Agadir in 2011. It moved back to Rabat in 2016. The tournament has been pl ...

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 The WPGA Championship of Europe was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour. The tournament was first played in 1979 in France, the first WPGA event held outside the United Kingdom. It was revived 1996 at Gleneagles in ...

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 The Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour held in Sweden. The tournament was played annually 1996–2008 and starting 2005 with Annika Sörenstam as the hostess. It was known as ...

, ten strokes behind

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. Head first gained non-exempt status for the 2000

, 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. Her best result on the LPGA Tour was sixth place at the 2005

Canadian Women's Open The CP Women's Open (french: Open féminin du Canada) is a women's professional golf tournament managed by Golf Canada. It has been Canada's national championship tournament since its founding in 1973, and is an official event on the LPGA Tour. ...

Professional wins (3)

Ladies Asian Golf Tour wins (1)

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

Malaysia Ladies Open The Malaysia Ladies Open was a professional golf tournament in Malaysia on the Ladies Asian Golf Tour. History The first tournament was played in 1987. The last event was held in 2003, and women's professional golf did not return to Malaysia aga ...

Other wins (2)

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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Head, Johanna English female golfers LPGA Tour golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Berkshire 1973 births Living people