Patricia Mary "Trish" Johnson (born 17 January 1966) is an English professional golfer.

Early life and amateur career

Johnson was born in

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. 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 The English Women's Amateur Championship is the women's national amateur match play golf championship of England. It was first played in 1912 and is currently organised by England Golf. The English Women's Amateur Championship is contested thro ...

, was the

English Women's Strokeplay The English Women's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship is the national women's amateur stroke play golf championship in England. Entry is open to all amateur golfers. It has been played annually at since 1984 and is organised by the England Go ...

Champion and repeated as England Under-23 Champion. In 1986 she represented GB & I 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 ...

and the

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 ...

, 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 1990 Order of Merit. Overall, she has won 18 tournaments on the Ladies European Tour and has finished in the top ten of the Order of Merit on thirteen occasions, including second places in 2000 and 2004 when she won the 2004 Wales "Golf as it should be" Ladies Open. Her latest victory came at the 2007 BMW Ladies Italian Open. Johnson won the 1987

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to earn playing rights for the 1988 season. She has three wins on the US-based LPGATour. She won the 1993 Las Vegas LPGA tournament and the following week's LPGA Atlanta Women's Championship. Her last LPGA victory was the 1996 Fieldcrest Cannon Classic. She was a member of the European

Solheim Cup The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. It is named after the Norwegian- American golf club manufacturer Karsten Solheim, who was a driving force b ...

team in

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, 1992,

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, 1996,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

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 S ...

, 2005, and 2007 and teamed with

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to represent England at the 2007

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 ...

Senior career

Johnson has won four tournaments in the

Legends Tour The Legends of the LPGA, formerly known as the Women's Senior Golf Tour (2000–2005) and the Legends Tour (2006–2021), is a professional golf tour for women aged 45 and older. It is based in the United States and is the official senior tour of t ...

, including the inaugural

Senior LPGA Championship The Senior LPGA Championship is a women's professional golf tournament on the Legends Tour. It began in 2017 and the first event was played at The Pete Dye Course in French Lick, Indiana. The minimum age is 45. Despite the 2015 announcement by ...

in 2017.

Professional wins (28)

Ladies European Tour wins (19)

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(3)

McEwan's Wirral Classic The Wirral Classic was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour held in England. It was played annually between 1983 and 1988 in Caldy on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, near Liverpool Liverpool is a city a ...

, Bloor Homes Eastleigh Classic,

Woolmark Ladies' Matchplay The British Women's Matchplay was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour. The tournament was initially held in England between 1979 and 1987. In 1988 the tournament moved to Spain, and the final installment in 1991 w ...

(4) Longines Classic, Hennessy Ladies' Cup, Bloor Homes Eastleigh Classic,

Ladies European Open The Ladies European Open was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour held in England and Germany. It was first played at The Belfry in 1984 and held annually in England until 1990 with the exception of 1986. The 1992 a ...

* 1992 (1) Skol La Manga Club Classic * 1996 (2) Marks & Spencer European Open, Open de France Dames *

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(2) Open de France Dames, Marrakech Open *

(1)

The Daily Telegraph Ladies British 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 ...

* 2004 (1) Wales "Golf as it should be" Ladies Open * 2007 (1) BMW Ladies Italian Open *

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(1) VCI European Ladies Golf Cup (with

Rebecca Hudson Rebecca Emma Gisela Hudson (born 13 June 1979 in Doncaster, England) is an English professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. Amateur career Hudson had a very successful junior and amateur career. She was Yorkshire Girls Champio ...

) * 2010 (2) Tenerife Ladies Open, Open de France Feminin *

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(1) Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open

LPGA Tour wins (3)

Other wins (1)

''this list may be incomplete'' *1992 Sunrise Cup World Team Championship (individual)

Legends Tour wins (5)

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The Legends Championship *

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Suquamish Clearwater Legends Cup, BJ's Charity Championship (with

) *

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Ladies European Tour career summary

Yellow for top-10 finishes, green for first.

Team appearances

Amateur *

European Lady Junior's Team Championship The European Lady Junior's Team Championship was a European amateur team golf championship for women under 22 organized by the European Golf Association. The inaugural event was held in 1968. It was played every year until 1984, then every second y ...

(representing England): 1984, 1986 (winners) *

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 ...

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1985 (winners) *

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 England):

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(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1986 (winners) *

: (representing Great Britain & Ireland):

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Professional *

(representing Europe):

, 1992 (winners),

, 1996,

(winners), 2005, 2007 *

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 England): 2007, 2008 *

Handa Cup The Handa Cup is a series of senior women's golf matches between a United States team and a World Team drawn from players from the rest of the world. It was founded in 2006 and is an event on the LPGA Legends Tour. Since 2013 it has been officially ...

(representing World team): 2013 (winners), 2014, 2015 * The Queens (representing Europe): 2016

Solheim Cup record

Notes and references

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Trish English female golfers Ladies European Tour golfers LPGA Tour golfers Solheim Cup competitors for Europe Sportspeople from Bristol 1966 births Living people