"2005 Women's British Open The 2005 Women's British Open was held 28–31 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. It was the 29th edition of the Women's British Open, and the fifth as a major championship on the LPGA Tour. Jeong Jang led wire-to-wire and won her first LPGA event and only major title, four strokes ahead of runner-up Sophie Gustafson. Michelle Wie, age 15, tied for third and was the low amateur in her final major before turning professional in the fall. ""Thursday, 28 July 2005"" ""Friday, 29 July 2005"" Amateurs: ""Stahle (−6), Wie (−2), Ciganda (+1)"","
"3 more major winners. This in itself was an utterly incredible achievement by a 14 year-old girl. At age 16 2 years later she shot another round of 68 in the men's tour Sony open and bettered the 36 hole score of 18 men including 2 major winners and matched the score of 9 others including 1 major winner. She again played in the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship, finishing fourth. As part of the victorious U.S. team, she became the youngest woman ever to play in the Curtis Cup tournament. Wie started her 2005 season by accepting another sponsor's invitation"
"2005, the LPGA Championship had a ""professionals only"" rule. This is similar to the men's PGA Championship, but contrasts with the U.S. and British Opens, which have long had both amateur and professional entrants through qualifying (henceforth the term ""open""). Until its takeover by the PGA of America in 2015, the tournament was the LPGA's own event, and the LPGA was created specifically to provide opportunities for women in professional golf. In 2005 this rule was revoked, effectively to allow 15-year-old amateur Michelle Wie to compete, in order to attract more media coverage and sell more tickets, though this was"
"an exemption and was thus only allowed to participate in a limited number of LPGA Tour events when given a sponsor's exemption from 2005 until 2008. Wie played her first professional event in the 2005 LPGA Samsung World Championship, where she was disqualified from a fourth-place finish for signing an incorrect scorecard. A journalist (Michael Bamberger) reported she had illegally dropped the ball closer to the hole than its original lie the day after she completed her third round. Wie would later go on to tally four top 5 finishes on the LPGA tour, including a second at the Evian"
"but one of the pros in the 2005 LPGA Championship and was the runner-up, three strokes behind three-time champion Annika Sörenstam. In 2006, the LPGA Championship reverted to its ""professionals only"" status, with only pros in the field. Wie had turned professional the previous October, upon signing multimillion-dollar endorsement contracts with Nike, Sony, and other sponsors. Tournament names through the years: The defending champion has retained the title on seven occasions, most recently in 2015: Through 2017, three consecutive championships has been achieved only twice, by Sörenstam (2005) and Park (2015). Since the PGA of America took control of the"
"first received a sponsor's exemption to play in the John Deere Classic in 2005, part of her effort to make the cut in a men's professional golf event. The tournament attracted thousands of visitors as fans flocked to see the 15-year-old Wie play. She posted a 70 (−1) in the first round and was four-under for the tournament after 32 holes, but then had a double bogey and bogey on successive holes. Wie finished with two pars to shoot 141 (−1) and missed the cut by two strokes. Wie received a sponsor's exemption again in 2006; it was her first"
"WD = withdrew Margin = strokes behind winner or cutline, not applicable in case of withdrawal. Amateur Professional From the beginning of her public career, Michelle Wie was the subject of controversy expressed by fans, media, peers, and other observers. Despite the publicity her appearances garnered, Wie made only one cut in a men's tournament: at the rain-shortened 2006 SK Telecom Open on the Asian Tour. She made no cuts on the PGA Tour. After missing the cut at the 2007 Sony Open by 14 shots, many sports critics began to doubt whether she ever would. Wie's last appearance in"
"play in this tournament until 2014 when Lucy Li surpassed her by one week. In 2001, at the age of 11, she won both the Hawaii State Women's Stroke Play Championship and the Jennie K. Wilson Women's Invitational, the oldest and most prestigious women's amateur tournament in Hawaii. She also advanced into match play at the Women's U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship. In 2002, she won the Hawaii State Open Women's Division by thirteen shots. She also became the youngest player to qualify for an LPGA event, the Takefuji Classic held in Wie's home state of Hawaii. While she went"
"September each year. In May, 2006, Michelle Wie, who has a sponsorship contract with Omega, accepted an invitation from the company to play in the 2006 tournament, making her first attempt to play on the European Tour. At the September event she shot 78-79 to finish 15-over-par over two rounds and finished in last place among the 156 competitors. European Tour executive director George O'Grady said on September 8, 2006 that Wie's appearance was ""an experiment"" and he would need ""a lot of persuading"" before inviting Wie to participate in such an event again, despite record crowds estimated at 9,500."
"saw Jordan Spieth, two weeks shy of his 20th birthday, become the first teenager to win on the PGA Tour since 1931. In order to help attract players who will compete in the following week's British Open, since 2008 the John Deere Classic has sponsored a charter flight that leaves the Quad Cities on Sunday night and arrives in Britain the next morning. Since the introduction of the Open Qualifying Series, the John Deere Classic is a final chance for a player not already exempt to earn entry into The Open if he finished in the top five. Michelle Wie"
"The Public Links was open to men and women, although very few women ever entered. In 2005, 15-year-old Michelle Wie became the first woman to advance to the match-play portion of the tournament. She was also the first woman to ever qualify for any USGA championship typically played by men. Entrants qualified to play in the U.S. Amateur Public Links by playing one of many qualifying tournaments held at sites around the United States with players completing 36 holes of stroke play in one day. The 64 qualifiers played in the tournament proper which began with three rounds of stroke"
"on to miss the cut, her record stood for five more years until it was broken in 2007 by 11-year-old Ariya Jutanugarn. At the 2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship, Wie became the youngest player to make an LPGA cut. She carded a 66 in the third round, tying the amateur record for a women's major championship and qualifying her to play in the final group of the championship. In June 2003, Wie won the Women's Amateur Public Links tournament, becoming the youngest person ever, male or female, to win a USGA adult event. Later that summer, she made the cut at"
"the 84 Lumber Classic. Teenager Michelle Wie accepted an invitation by Wie family friend and 84 Lumber owner Joe Hardy to play in the 2006 tournament. It was her sixth attempt to make a cut in a PGA Tour event and third attempt in 2006. It was expected that Wie's involvement would help draw fans to the event. At the September event, Wie shot 14 over par over the first two rounds, finishing 23 strokes behind the leaders and last among all competitors who completed two rounds. The 2001 Pennsylvania Classic was the first PGA Tour tournament staged after the"
"Monique Viele Monique Viele (born October 6, 1984) is a retired American professional tennis player. In her singles career, Viele was ranked as high as 817 (October 9, 2000). Viele began her professional career on September 22, 1999, when she lost to Jane Chi 6-3, 6-1 in the 1999 Tokyo Princess Cup. Prior to beginning her professional career, Viele threatened to challenge the Capriati Rule Age Eligibility Rule in court, which limited female tennis players from turning pro before the age of 15. However, the WTA amended their Age Eligibility Rule in order to allow Viele to play at age"
"the US Women's Open when she was still just 13, the youngest player ever to do so. Wie was given a sponsor's exemption to the 2004 Sony Open in Hawaii, becoming the fourth, and youngest, female to play a PGA Tour event. Her second round score of 68 was the lowest ever by a woman in a PGA Tour event, though she went on to miss the cut in the tournament. While missing the cut by 1 stroke she bettered the 36 hole score of 47 men including 4 major winners and matched the scores of 15 more men including"
"$19 million . Wie finally became eligible to play full-time on the LPGA Tour in 2009, when she tied for 7th place at the LPGA qualifying tournament in Daytona Beach. After passing LPGA Qualifying School in December 2008, Wie declared that she still planned to play in tournaments against men. However, for the second consecutive year, she did not receive a sponsor exemption to play in the Sony Open in Hawaii where she had played four years in a row from 2004 through 2007. Her first tournament as an LPGA member was the season-opening SBS Open at Turtle Bay where"
"is similar to that for the U.S. Women's Amateur. Golfers must follow the USGA's guidelines for amateur status. The USGA defines an ""amateur golfer"" as anyone who plays golf purely for the qualities of the game itself, ""not as a profession and not for financial gain"". The Public Links, like the U.S. Women's Amateur, had no age restrictions. However, there were two key differences in the eligibility criteria for the Public Links: Michelle Wie became the youngest champion in the history of USGA adult championships when she won the 2003 U.S. Women's Public Links championship at age 13, her final"
"2001 European Youth Olympics during that period. On 10 March 2003, she made her debut for the senior team in a match against Russia which ended with Germany losing by 2–3. Due to her height (1.71 metres), she was used as a libero by then national team coach Hee Wan-Lee. Her return to Schweriner SC in 2003 and the appointment of Giovanni Guidetti as the national team head coach in 2006, who decided to use her as a setter (her original position), provided Weiß with opportunities and her performances started to improve. In 2005–06, she won the German Bundesliga (championship)"
"started at the age of six years to play badminton. Soon, he was regarded as the biggest German talent. He was 19 times German youth and junior champion in 2003 he became European junior champion and won his first international title at the senior. In 2005, he was plagued by pain in the back, he thought was ordinary sore muscles until the pain had worsened significantly and he could no longer play just before Christmas 2005. With the diagnosis of herniated disc, his career was in jeopardy and thus moved his dream of participating at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing"
"tournament that year made international headlines when teenage golfer Michelle Wie made the cut, only the second female golfer to do so in a Korean men's tournament after Se Ri Pak in 2003 and the first to do it in an Asian Tour tournament. It has been staged at five different venues since its inception it is currently played at the Sky 72 Golf Club and has previously been played at Pinx, BA Vista, IIdong Lake and the Lakeside Golf Clubs. SK Telecom Open The SK Telecom Open is an annual professional golf tournament hosted in South Korea and sponsored"
"play to narrow the field to 16 players who then competed in a single-elimination match play tournament. Each match was 18 holes except the championship match which was 36 holes; before 2001, the final was an 18-hole match.) The winner of the event earned an invitation to the following year's Masters Tournament, if he/she was still an amateur at the time of the Masters. The 2005 edition, held in Lebanon, Ohio, drew an unusually large amount of media attention due to Michelle Wie's presence. She had stated on several occasions that she wished to one day play in the Masters,"
"but did not make an appearance in that tournament. Following Wiese's retirement from football in 2014, he gained a significant amount of muscle mass and was subsequently linked to a career in professional wrestling, eventually joining WWE in 2016. In 2017, Wiese came out of his retirement from football to play a one-off match for SSV Dillingen in the Kreisliga Schwaben-Nord, the eighth tier of German football. He started his playing career at DJK Dürscheid, in 1987. Two years later, he moved to Bayer Leverkusen's youth system, before moving to Fortuna Köln, where he made his first-team debut in the"
"grew up performing in theatre and working in Film/TV as an actress and on-camera host, before she gained fame at the 2008 World Series of Poker. She was the last female player left, in a field of 6,844 players, at the WSOP Championship Event. 17th-place finish broke the record for the largest field ever conquered by a female in live poker tournament history and earned her a payday of $334,534. In 2009, Michelle was invited to compete on the 15th season of the CBS competition reality show, ""The Amazing Race"". She teamed up with her best friend, and fellow WSOP"
"December 2010, and has a daughter. He completed his ""Realschulabschluss"" at the ""Gesamtschule Kürten"". Tim Wiese Tim Wiese (; born 17 December 1981) is a German professional wrestler and former football goalkeeper. Having progressed through the youth teams at DJK Dürscheid and Bayer Leverkusen, Wiese started his professional career at Fortuna Köln, and went on to play for 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Werder Bremen before signing for 1899 Hoffenheim in 2012. Wiese made 13 appearances for the German under-21 squad between 2003 and 2005, before making his full international debut three years later against England. He went on to win"
"announced her retirement from professional wrestling and wrestled her final match on February 5, 2011. Malawski made her professional debut in June 2003 at the age of 17 under the name Shantelle Taylor. In 2004, she was featured in the two-part wrestling documentary, ""Slam Bam"", which aired on the Discovery Channel. In 2005, she won her first women's championship while competing in New Vision Pro Wrestling. She spent the summer of that year in Monterrey, Mexico working on her lucha libre style. In December she participated in a three-show tour of South Africa wrestling on a card that featured former"
"Then I actually stopped for a little bit to do dance class. When I was four I went back [to gymnastics] and that's kind of when I started getting really into it."" She later enrolled with John Geddert, who handpicked her to his Silverstars program, and by age 10, she had qualified to Level 10 in the Junior Olympic program, and then qualified for international elite a year later in 2006. In February, Wieber competed at the American Cup in Chicago, Illinois. She won the all-around competition with a score of 60.200. In August, an injury prevented her from attending"
"the BMO Financial Group Canadian Women's Open. On 25 February 2006 she won her second LPGA Tour title at the Fields Open in Hawaii. LPGA Tour playoff record (1–1) ""Results not in chronological order before 2015."" DNP = did not play<br> CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> ""T"" = tied<br> Yellow background for a top-10 finish. Professional Meena Lee Meena Lee (; born 25 December 1981) is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the United States-based LPGA Tour. Lee was born in Jeonju, South Korea. She took up golf at the age of fourteen, which is unusually late"
"media as the 'bridesmaid', as she constantly finished runner-up in many events. In the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, she broke the jinx and won the gold medal in the 112 km road bicycle racing event. After her retirement she said she felt she achieved her maximum potential during her career through hard work and extensive preparation. In her teens she competed in track cycling (velodrome) but specialised in road racing for more than 10 years. In addition to founding Wiggle-Honda, in January 2015 Gilmore announced the launch of the High5 Dream Team, an Australian women's team competing in Australia's"
"Wienke her older sisters. Homan was involved in a car accident in her first year of Senior school at the age of 12 in 1998. In 2003, when she finished school she had her leg amputated. Homan started to play wheelchair tennis in May 2000. During her first year of learning she went to an exhibition by Esther Vergeer and had a conversation with her coach Aad Zwaan. In September 2001 Homan started on the juniors and played tournaments in the Netherlands. Homan finished 2003 with a singles ranking of 23 having been unranked at the start of the year."
"Here, all women's players had to work aside from football. Wiegman became a physical education teacher, a job she would keep for the rest of her playing career. In 1994, Wiegman joined Ter Leede, where she would win two Dutch championships (2001 and 2003) and one KNVB Cup (2001). In 2003, she retired after becoming pregnant with her second child. Wiegman gained 104 caps for the Netherlands, scoring three goals, between 1987 and 2001. She also captained the team. In 1986, at the age of sixteen, Wiegman was first selected for the Netherlands. On 23 May 1987, at the age"
"age of twelve at the suggestion of her school physical education teacher. Her first club was the Croydon and District Table Tennis Association, where she still plays in able-bodied pennant competition. In her first athletes with disabilities competition, as a 16-year-old, she debuted in the national team and finished third in her class at the 2005 Asian Oceania Championships in Malaysia. At the 2006 World Championships in Switzerland she became the first Australian woman to ever compete at the para World Championships; at the 2007 US Open in Chicago, she finished first.. In 2017 she became Oceania Class 6-8 Regional"
"which would ultimately cost her a place on the Wales Under-16 team. When she finally turned 16, she gave up football, instead planning on taking a long hiatus from all sports, citing her knee injury and a lack of passion for the sport as her reasons. Shortly after quitting football, she found a professional wrestling school in Port Talbot and began training under Dave Stewart and ""Wild Boar"" Mike Hitchman. She said that the encouragement of her late grandfather to pursue a career in professional wrestling was her main inspiration. Outside of football, she played netball and tag rugby. Despite"
"was born in Metairie, Louisiana. She started playing tennis at the age of 11 and was taught by the legendary tennis coach Emmett Pare from the very start and throughout her career. At age 13, she won the US National Girl's 14 Singles Championship and by the time she had graduated from high school, she had won six national titles: the 1964 US National Girl's 14 Singles Championship, the 1966 US National Girl's 16 Singles Championship, the 1966 US National Girl's 16 Doubles Championship, the 1967 US National Girl's 18 Clay Court Singles Championship, the 1968 US National Girl's 18"