Janice C. Moodie (born 31 May 1973) is a Scottish

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who plays mainly on the U.S.-based

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but is also a member of the

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Amateur career

Moodie was born in

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. At age 11, she was taught to play golf by her mother, a former 6-handicap amateur, a
Windyhill Golf Club
in

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. 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

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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

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in 1994 when her win over

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in the final singles match secured a 9- 9 tie keeping the Curtis Cup in GB&I by virtue of the GB&I win in 1992. She also played on the victorious 1996 team in

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and played in the 1996

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World Amateur Team Championship where she finished 2nd. Moodie enrolled at

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to play collegiate golf for the Spartans, graduating in 1997 with a degree in

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. She won 12 collegiate tournaments including the 1995 GolfWorld/Palmetto Dunes, the 1996 Stanford Women's Intercollegiate and the 1997 Peg Barnard California Collegiate. She was

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Champion 1994-1996, Big West Athlete of the Year 1994-1996, was All-Big West 1994 and 1995 and finished in the top ten at the

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Championships each year 1994-1997 thus earning First-Team All-American honours each year during 1994-1997. She posted the lowest scoring average on her team from 1996–97 and won the Golfstat Cup in 1996. She turned professional in 1997 and qualified for the

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Tour by tying for 21st at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn non-exempt status for the 1998 season.

Professional career

In 1998 Moodie had three top ten finishes. Her best result was fourth place which she achieved once in

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at the Weetabix Women's British Open and once in the United States at the City of Hope Myrtle Beach Classic. She finished second to

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in the Rolex Rookie of the Year race. In 2000, she claimed her maiden victory at the

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, becoming only the second Scot to win on the LPGA Tour, moved past the $1 million mark in LPGA career earnings and made her

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debut at

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in her native

. In 2002, Moodie won her second LPGA title at the Asahi Ryokuken International Championship and was somewhat controversially not one of Dale Reid's captain picks for the

having chosen to play in the U.S. rather than on the LET in the run up to selection. Captain

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did pick Moodie for the

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and she rewarded her captain by winning three and a half points and paved the way during the singles matches when she defeated Kelli Keuhne by 3&2 in the top match. 2003 also saw Moodie inducted into the

Sports Hall of Fame. At the start of 2004, Moodie was inducted into the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) Hall of Fame In 2005 Moodie together with Catriona Matthew represented Scotland in the inaugural

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and was part of the International Team at the first staging of the

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. Moodie and Matthew continued their partnership at the 2006

and made it three appearances in a row when she paired with

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in the 2007 staging.

Off-course activities

Moodie supports her own tournament for the Janice Moodie trophy at her home club of Windyhill. The event is for girls aged ten to 21 with a handicap limit of 40. She also makes a contribution to the West of Scotland Girls' Associations towards the girls' travelling costs

Professional wins (4)

LPGA Tour wins (2)

Other wins

*2001

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(with

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) *2002

(with

)

LPGA Tour career summary

Team appearances

Amateur *

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 Scotland):

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

Vagliano Trophy The Vagliano Trophy is a biennial women's amateur golf tournament. It is co-organised by The R&A and the European Golf Association and is contested by teams representing "Great Britain and Ireland" and the "Continent of Europe". It is played in od ...

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1993 (winners), 1995, 1997 *

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1994 (tie, Cup retained), 1996 (winners) *

(representing Great Britain & Ireland):

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

Commonwealth Trophy The Astor Trophy is a women's team golf tournament between teams of amateurs golfers from Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. It has been played every four years since 1959. From its foundation until 2007 it ...

(representing Great Britain): 1995 Professional *

(representing Europe):

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

(winners),

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

(winners),

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

(representing International team):

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

(winners) *

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(representing Scotland): 2005, 2006, 2007

Solheim Cup record

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moodie, Janice Scottish female golfers LPGA Tour golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Solheim Cup competitors for Europe Golfers from Glasgow 1973 births Living people