Karrie Ann Webb (born 21 December 1974) is an Australian

professional golfer A professional golfer is somebody who receives payments or financial rewards in the sport of golf that are directly related to their skill or reputation. A person who earns money by teaching or playing golf is traditionally considered a "golf pr ...

. She plays mainly on the U.S.-based

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, and also turns out once or twice a year on the ALPG Tour in her home country. She is a member of the

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. She has 41 wins on the LPGA Tour, more than any other active player.

Early life and amateur career

Webb was born in

Ayr, Queensland Ayr is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia. It is the centre of a sugarcane-growing region and the administrative centre for the Burdekin Shire Council. In the , the locality of Ayr had a population of 8,7 ...

. She was a member of the Australian Amateur team, making six international appearances from 1992 to 1994, including a 1994 appearance in the

Espirito Santo Trophy The Espirito Santo Trophy (World Women's Amateur Team Championships) is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for women organised by the International Golf Federation. The inaugural event was held in 1964. It was instituted by the Fre ...

World Amateur Golf Team Championships The International Golf Federation (IGF) was founded in 1958 and is the international federation recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the world governing body for golf. The IGF has two membership categories representing the ...

. This was the year she became the Australian Stroke Play Champion

Professional career

Webb began her professional golfing career in 1994 playing on the Ladies European Tour, where she finished second at the

Women's Australian Open The Women's Australian Open is a women's professional golf tournament played in Australia, operated by Golf Australia and the WPGA Tour of Australasia, long co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET). Beginning with the 2012 event, it is ...

, and the

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in the U.S., where she won one tournament. In 1995 she became the youngest ever winner of the

Weetabix Women's British Open The Women's Open (originally known as the Women's British Open, and still widely referred to by that name outside the UK) is a major championship in women's professional golf. It is recognised by both the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tou ...

in her rookie season in Europe, prior to it being classed as an LPGA major, and was European Rookie of the Year. She qualified for the

after she finished second at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament, despite playing with a broken bone in her wrist. In 1996 Webb won her first LPGA tournament in her second LPGA start at the

HealthSouth Inaugural The HealthSouth Inaugural was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1980 to 1999. It was played at several courses in Florida. HealthSouth Corporation sponsored the event from 1993 to 1999. Tournaments venues Winners ;HEALTHSOUTH Inaugural *19 ...

, on the fourth hole of a sudden death playoff. She won three other tournaments and became the first LPGA player to win $1 million mark in a single season, topping the year end money list. She was also the 1996 LPGA Rookie of the Year. In 1997 Webb won three times on the LPGA Tour including another win at the Weetabix Women's British Open, won her first

Vare Trophy 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 week ...

and was voted 1997 ESPY Best Female Golfer. In 1999 Webb won her first major championship at the du Maurier Ltd. Classic and won her first LPGA Tour Player of the Year award. Webb also took part in the largest playoff in LPGA Tour history at the 1999 Jamie Farr Kroger Classic.

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birdied the first sudden death playoff hole to defeat Webb,

Mardi Lunn Mardi Lunn (born 9 January 1968) is an Australian professional golfer. Her sister, Karen Lunn, is also a professional golfer. Lunn played on several tours including the ALPG Tour, LPGA Tour, and Ladies European Tour. She has won five times ...

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, and

Kelli Kuehne Kelli Kuehne Doremus (born May 11, 1977) is a retired American professional golfer. Amateur career Kuehne was born in Dallas, Texas. She was the Texas UIL 4A Girls Individual State Champion four years in a row, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 while att ...

. In 2000, Webb won two more major championships, following up her win at the

Nabisco Championship The Chevron Championship is a professional women's golf tournament. An event on the LPGA Tour, it is one of the tour's five major championships, and has traditionally been the first of the season since its elevation to major status in 1983. Fou ...

with a win at the

U.S. Women's Open The U.S. Women's Open, one of 15 national golf championships conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA), is the oldest of the LPGA Tour's five major championships, which includes the Chevron Championship, Women's PGA Championship, W ...

. This gained her a second consecutive Rolex Player of the Year title and Vare Trophy, and she topped the money list, missing out on a chance to become the LPGA's first single-season $2 million winner by taking a mid season break to return home to Australia to run with the Olympic torch. Teamed with

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representing Australia she won the Women's World Cup in

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, was awarded the preeminent sport award in Australia, the Dawn Fraser Award. and was named Female Player of the Year by the Golf Writers Association of America. She successfully defended her

title in 2001 and won the

LPGA Championship The Women's PGA Championship (branded as the KPMG Women's PGA Championship for sponsorship reasons) is a women's professional golf tournament. First held in 1955, it is one of five majors on the LPGA Tour. It is not recognized as a major by the ...

, to become the youngest winner of the LPGA Career Grand Slam. She teamed with

David Duval David Robert Duval (born November 9, 1971) is an American professional golfer and former World No. 1 Golfer who competed on the PGA Tour and currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions. Duval won 13 PGA Tour tournaments between 1997 and 2001; incl ...

to play against

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and

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in a made-for-TV Battle at Bighorn between the two best male and two best female players in the world. At the time, it provided women's golf its largest audience ever. Webb's win at the 2002

Women's British Open The Women's Open (originally known as the Women's British Open, and still widely referred to by that name outside the UK) is a women's major golf championships, major championship in Professional golf tours#Women's tours, women's professional go ...

, which had become an LPGA major in 2001, meant she completed a Super Career Grand Slam – every available major championship in women's golf in her career. Webb then suffered a three-year slump. She collected just two LPGA wins in the next two years, and in 2005 had a best LPGA finish of tied sixth although she did team up with

to represent Australia at the

Women's World Cup of Golf The Women's World Cup of Golf was a professional golf tournament contested by teams of two female golfers representing their respective countries. The tournament was played in two incarnations, first in 2000 at Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort, Co ...

and won her fifth ANZ Ladies Masters title back home in Australia. Webb qualified for entry to the

in 2000, but was not eligible for induction until she had played ten LPGA Tour events in each of ten seasons. She met this criterion on 9 June 2005 when she completed the first round of the

. At age 30, she became the youngest living person ever to enter the Hall of Fame, and kept that distinction until 2007, when fellow LPGA star

was inducted. Webb staged a comeback season in 2006. In the final round at the

Kraft Nabisco Championship The Chevron Championship is a professional women's golf tournament. An event on the LPGA Tour, it is one of the tour's five major championships, and has traditionally been the first of the season since its elevation to major status in 1983. Fou ...

she holed a 116-yard shot from the fairway to eagle the 18th hole, and then birdied the same hole in a sudden-death playoff to beat Lorena Ochoa and win her second Kraft Nabisco Championship. She won four other tournaments including the

Evian Masters The Evian Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as The Amundi Evian Championship, is a women's professional golf tournament in France, played at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains. It was originally held in June, mov ...

and Mizuno Classic. Her 2006 Kraft Nabisco win took her into the top ten of the

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for the first time since they were introduced in February 2006. Her 41 LPGA Tour victories places her tied for 10th with

Babe Zaharias Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (; Didrikson; June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball and track and field. She won two gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Summer O ...

on the list of players with the most career LPGA tournament wins and first among all active players.

Professional wins (56)

LPGA Tour wins (41)

LPGA Tour playoff record (4–6) LPGA majors are shown in bold.

ALPG Tour wins (13)

*1998 (1)

Australian Ladies Masters The RACV Gold Coast Challenge was a golf tournament played in Australia. It was one of the leading tournaments on the ALPG Tour and was co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET) since 2001. Between 1997 and 2000 it was an event on the LP ...

² *1999 (1)

² *2000 (2)

AAMI Women's Australian Open The Women's Australian Open is a women's professional golf tournament played in Australia, operated by Golf Australia and the WPGA Tour of Australasia, long co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET). Beginning with the 2012 event, it i ...

⁴,

² *2001 (1) ANZ Ladies Masters⁴ *2002 (1)

⁴ *2005 (1) ANZ Ladies Masters⁴ *2007 (2) MFS Women's Australian Open⁴, ANZ Ladies Masters⁴ *2008 (1) MFS Women's Australian Open⁴ *2010 (1) ANZ Ladies Masters⁴ *2013 (1) Volvik RACV Ladies Masters⁴ *2014 (1)

ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open The Women's Australian Open is a women's professional golf tournament played in Australia, operated by Golf Australia and the WPGA Tour of Australasia, long co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET). Beginning with the 2012 event, it i ...

⁵

LPGA of Japan Tour wins (3)

*2000 (1) Nichriei World Ladies Cup *2001 (1) Nichriei World Ladies Cup *2006 (1)

Mizuno Classic The Toto Japan Classic is an annual women's professional golf tournament in Japan, jointly sanctioned by the two richest women's professional tours: the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour. It was an unofficial money event on the LPGA ...

Ladies European Tour wins (15)

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 ...

(1)

¹ *

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 ...

(1)

¹ *

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 ...

(1)

⁴ *

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

(1) ANZ Ladies Masters⁴ *

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 ...

(2)

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¹ *

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 ...

(1) ANZ Ladies Masters⁴ *

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

(1)

¹ * 2007 (2) MFS Women's Australian Open⁴, ANZ Ladies Masters⁴ *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

(1) MFS Women's Australian Open⁴ *

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

(1) ANZ Ladies Masters⁴ *

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

(2) Volvik RACV Ladies Masters⁴,

ISPS Handa Ladies European Masters The Amundi German Masters is a golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour. It was last played at Golf & Country Club Seddiner See near Berlin, Germany. The tournament was first played as the Ladies British Masters at Mottram Hall in the North ...

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

(1)

⁵ ''Note: Webb won

The Evian Championship The Evian Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as The Amundi Evian Championship, is a women's professional golf tournament in France, played at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains. It was originally held in June, move ...

(formerly named the

) once before it was recognized as a major championship on the LPGA Tour in 2013, but after it was co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour in 2000. Webb won the Women's British Open twice before it was recognized as a major championship on the LPGA Tour in 2001, but after it was co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour in 1994 and once after it was recognized as a major championship in 2001.''

Futures Tour wins (1)

*1995 Golden Flake Golden Ocala Futures Classic

Other wins (2)

*2000 Women's World Cup Golf (with

) *2003 ConAgra LPGA Skins Game ''Notes'' *¹ Co-sanctioned by LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour *² Co-sanctioned by LPGA Tour and ALPG Tour *³ Co-sanctioned by LPGA Tour and LPGA of Japan Tour *⁴ Co-sanctioned by ALPG Tour and Ladies European Tour *⁵ Co-sanctioned by ALPG Tour, Ladies European Tour, and LPGA Tour

Major championships

Wins (7)

¹ Defeated Ochoa with birdie on first extra hole

Results timeline

''Results not in chronological order before 2019.'' ^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.
^^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013
† Webb won the Women's British Open in 1995 and 1997 before it became an LPGA major. CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied for place

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 23 (2007 British Open – 2013 U.S. Open) *Longest streak of top-10s – 9 (1999 U.S. Open – 2001 U.S. Open)

LPGA Tour career summary

* official through 2022 season * Includes matchplay and other tournaments without a cut

World ranking

Position in

at the end of each calendar year.

Honours

Webb was awarded the

Centenary Medal The Centenary Medal is an award which was created by the Australian Government in 2001. It was established to commemorate the centenary of the Federation of Australia and to recognise "people who made a contribution to Australian society or go ...

on 1 January 2001. On 26 January 2010 Webb was appointed a Member of the

Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...

for service to golf, and to the community as a benefactor and supporter of a range of health and disability organisations. In January 2018 Webb was made an Officer of the

(AO) for distinguished service to golf at the elite level as a player, to the development of female golfers, as a mentor and role model, and through charitable and community organisations". In 2022, she was inducted into

Sport Australia Hall of Fame The Sport Australia Hall of Fame was established on 10 December 1985 to recognise the achievements of Australian sportsmen and sportswomen. The inaugural induction included 120 members with Sir Don Bradman as the first inductee and Dawn Fraser th ...

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing Australia):

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

Tasman Cup The Tasman Cup was an amateur women's team golf tournament, played between Australia and New Zealand from 1933 to 2016. From 2007 to 2012 it was played as part of the Trans Tasman Cup. In 2016 the trophy was contested using scores from the two qual ...

(representing Australia): 1993 (winners) *

Queen Sirikit Cup The Queen Sirikit Cup, officially the Asia-Pacific Amateur Ladies Golf Team Championship, is an annual amateur team golf championship for women organised by the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation. The inaugural event was held in 1979. The event is na ...

(representing Australia): 1992, 1993, 1994 *

Gladys Hay Memorial Cup The Australian Women's Interstate Teams Matches were an amateur team golf competition for women between the states of Australia. From 1933 it was contested for the Gladys Hay Memorial Cup. The final format was a round-robin tournament, each team ...

(representing Queensland): 1991, 1992, 1993 Professional *

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 event most associated with the concept i ...

(representing Australia): 2005 *

International Crown The Hanwha LifePlus International Crown is a biennial women's professional team golf tournament on the LPGA Tour. Eight national teams of four players each (32 players in total) participate in the match play event. History It debuted in 2014 at ...

(representing Australia):

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

* The Queens (representing Australia): 2017 (captain)

References

External links

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at the

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official site * {{DEFAULTSORT:Webb, Karrie Australian female golfers ALPG Tour golfers LPGA Tour golfers Winners of LPGA major golf championships World Golf Hall of Fame inductees Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees Members of the Order of Australia Officers of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Centenary Medal Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal People from Queensland Sportspeople from Boynton Beach, Florida 1974 births Living people

Early life and amateur career

Professional career

Professional wins (56)

LPGA Tour wins (41)

ALPG Tour wins (13)

LPGA of Japan Tour wins (3)

Ladies European Tour wins (15)

Futures Tour wins (1)

Other wins (2)

Major championships

Wins (7)

Results timeline

Summary

LPGA Tour career summary

World ranking

Honours

Team appearances

See also

References

External links