"Lorena Velázquez Lorena Velázquez (; born December 15, 1937) is a Mexican actress and former beauty pageant titleholder. Born María de la Concepción Lorena Villar Dondé in Mexico City, Velázquez debuted in 1955. She competed in Miss Mexico in 1958 and placed second. Afterwards she was appointed Miss Mexico 1960, although she refused to represent Mexico in the Miss Universe pageant. Velázquez played varied roles in the 60's, from a vedette, to a cowgirl and even as the queen of vampires. She also played two antagonic roles in a film, as queen of a far away planet and her twin"
"Lorena Ochoa Lorena Ochoa Reyes ( ; born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010. She was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive and total weeks (both are LPGA Tour records), from 23 April 2007 to her retirement in 2 May 2010, at the age of 28 years old. As the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world, she is considered the best Mexican golfer and the best Latin American female golfer of all time. Ochoa was"
"inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017. Born and raised in Guadalajara, Ochoa was the third of four children of a real estate developer and an artist. She took up golf at the age of five, won her first state event at the age of six, and her first national event at seven. An 11-year-old Ochoa approached the professional Rafael Alarcon, 1979 winner of the Canadian Amateur Championship, as he worked on his game at Guadalajara Country Club, where her family lived near the 10th tee. She asked him if he would help her with her game."
"2011, Ochoa announced she was pregnant with the couple's first child. As of mid-2017, she has 3 children. LPGA Tour playoff record (2–5) Futures Tour playoff record (0–1) DNP = did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut WD = withdrew LA = low amateur ""T"" = tied Green background for a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish. <br> 2001 2002 2003 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 Amateur Professional Lorena Ochoa Lorena Ochoa Reyes ( ; born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010. She was"
"for the second time. In April 2007, Ochoa overtook Annika Sörenstam to become the world number one ranked golfer. In August 2007, Ochoa won her first major championship at the historic home of golf, the Old Course at St Andrews, with a wire-to-wire win by four shots at the Women's British Open. She won the next two LPGA events, the CN Canadian Women's Open and the Safeway Classic, the first to win three consecutive events since Sörenstam in 2005. Also in 2007, Ochoa became the first woman ever to earn more than $4,000,000 in a single season, surpassing Sörenstam's previous"
"Golf Course in Lahaina, Hawaii. Ironically, this occurred on the same day as the fake missile notification in Hawaii, which garnered her participation in another historic event. She shared all the exciting details of her journey with the LPGA Women's Network in a video. Watch the video here. Learn more about Oneda at onedagolf.com. Castillo was born April 13, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, as the second of three children to Walter and Ruth Scott. She was raised by her mother, along with her two brothers, in Cleveland Ohio and Buffalo, New York, where she graduated from Bennett High School in"
"Oneda Maryon Castillo Oneda Maryon Castillo (born April 13, 1952) is a Global Education Instructor for the Ladies Professional Golfers Association (LPGA). She joined the LPGA in 1997. She is the third African American woman to achieve Class A status as a LPGA Teaching and Club Professional (T&CP), doing so in 2003. As of 2016 she is one of a few African American women golfers to become a LPGA Teaching Professional. Oneda had a personal quest to play golf in all 50 states. She conquered the links in her 50th state on January 13, 2018, at the world famous Kapalua"
"Leona Maguire Leona Maguire (born 30 November 1994) is an Irish professional golfer. She was ranked 1st in the world on the women's World Amateur Golf Ranking from 2 August 2016 until 28 February 2018 and was also ranked first for the 52 weeks from May 2015 to May 2016. Maguire's 135 weeks at the top is the longest in history. A native of County Cavan, her parents are schoolteachers Declan and Breda Maguire. At the age of 9, she gave up a promising swimming career to concentrate on golf. She is 15 minutes younger than her twin sister Lisa"
"2013. Andrés Conesa has a degree in Economy from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City and a Ph.D. in Economy by the MIT. He was awarded Fulbright and Ford MacArthur Fellowships for his postgraduate studies abroad, and the National Economics Prize in Mexico in 1997. Mr. Conesa is married to the Mexican golf star Lorena Ochoa, who announced her retirement from the sport in 2010 in order to start their family. Source: Dr. Conesa Labastida served as: He has served as: He obtained the Fulbright and Ford MacArthur scholarships, and in 1997 he was awarded with"
"development of the South-Western Mexican region. In 2005, the Tres Marias Golf Club gained international recognition by hosting the prestigious LPGA Corona Championship. The women's golf championship has thus been held every year at Tres Marias during the second week of April. Mexican female golfer Lorena Ochoa won the LPGA Championship in 2006, 2008, 2009, and has greatly contributed to the successful popularity of the Tres Marias Golf Club and the increase of golf enthusiasts in Mexico. The Tres Marias Residential Golf club also serves as a luxurious community with gated housing and security for Mexican Nationals and Foreign residents."
"World Cup of Golf. ^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.<br> LA = Low Amateur<br> DNP = did not play<br> CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> ""T"" = tied<br> Yellow background for top-10. Professional Marisa Baena Marisa Isabel Baena (born 1 June 1977) is a Colombian golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. Baena was born in Pereira, Colombia. She started playing golf at the age of six. She attended the University of Arizona in the United States and had an outstanding amateur career, the highlights of which were claiming"
"record of $2,863,904. In April 2008, Ochoa won her second major championship, this time at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, becoming the first golfer to win consecutive LPGA majors since Sörenstam in 2005. She celebrated this victory in the traditional fashion for the Kraft Nabisco by jumping into the pond on the 18th green. The following week, she won the Corona Championship in her home country by 11 strokes. This gave her the final tournament win she needed to qualify for the World Golf Hall of Fame, although she cannot be inducted until she completes ten seasons on the LPGA Tour."
"from 46 different countries and was headed by the 2006 U.S. Amateur champion, Richie Ramsay of Scotland. In February 2011, the United States Golf Association (USGA) endorsed the rankings and announced it would use them for an exemption category in all their men's amateur championships, including the U.S. Amateur, beginning in 2011. The women's rankings were started in February 2011. Mitsuki Katahira was the first number one. Leona Maguire holds the record for most weeks at the top of the rankings with 135 weeks. Only three players have ever held the No. 1-ranking as both an amateur and a professional."
"Women's World Golf Rankings were unveiled in February 2006, Sörenstam was confirmed as the number-one player in women's golf, a position she relinquished to Lorena Ochoa on 22 April 2007. In partnership with Liselotte Neumann in team Sweden, she won the Women's World Cup of Golf, opened her LPGA season with a defence of her title in the MasterCard Classic. She then went winless in eight starts, causing some to talk of a slump. Her winning drought ended at the U.S. Women's Open, where she won an 18-hole playoff over Pat Hurst for her tenth major championship title, tying her"
"to have been represented more than once. Seven of the winners were born in the United Kingdom, and the other winners were born in Brazil, former Czechoslovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United States. Czechoslovak-born tennis player Martina Navratilova was the first woman to have won the award. The only recipient of the award on multiple occasions is Ballesteros who won in 1997 and again in 2009, for his contribution to golf winning ""the Open three times, the Masters twice as well as playing an inspirational role in the Ryder Cup"". The most recent winner, in 2018, was American tennis player"
"Carlota Ciganda Carlota Ciganda Machiñena (born 1 June 1990) is a professional golfer from Spain who plays on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. She won the LET's Order of Merit (money title) in her debut season in 2012, and was also named Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year. Born in Pamplona, Spain, Ciganda started to play golf aged five, influenced by her father. Her uncle is the former football player and coach José Ángel Ziganda. She attended college in the United States at Arizona State University from 2008 to 2011, where she majored in"
"was the first woman to play in the club's annual match against the Links Trust. The R&A is the ruling authority of golf throughout the world except in Canada, the United States and Mexico; Golf Canada is the ruling authority of golf in Canada, while United States Golf Association (USGA) is the ruling authority of golf in the latter two countries. It works in collaboration with national amateur and professional golf organisations in more than 110 countries. The R&A cooperates with the USGA in producing and regularly revising the ""Rules of Golf"", and the two bodies have issued the rules"
"title. ""Current through 2018 US Open."" Caroline Wozniacki Caroline Wozniacki (R) (; ; born 11 July 1990) is a Danish professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in singles. She is also the first woman from a Scandinavian country to hold the top ranking position and 20th in the Open Era. She finished on top of the rankings in both 2010 and 2011. She has won 30 WTA singles titles, including six in 2010 and 2011, the most in a year by a WTA player from 2008–2011. She was runner-up at the 2009 US Open and the"
"background for top-10. <nowiki>*</nowiki> as of the 2018 season Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year. Professional Ariya Jutanugarn Ariya Jutanugarn (, , ; born 23 November 1995) is a Thai professional golfer who plays on the American-based LPGA Tour. She was born in Bangkok. She is the first golfer, male or female, from Thailand to win a major championship. She became the number one ranked golfer in the Women's World Golf Rankings in June 2017. Jutanugarn has an older sister, Moriya, who is also a professional golfer. Their parents are father Somboon and"
"in 2015 by President Barak Obama for her lifetime commitment to building a stronger nation through volunteer service. Castillo was named Club Fitter of the Year in 2015 by the African American Golfers' Digest Castillo was inducted into the African American Golfers Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2012, Castillo was selected as the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Southeast Section Teacher of the Year. Oneda Maryon Castillo Oneda Maryon Castillo (born April 13, 1952) is a Global Education Instructor for the Ladies Professional Golfers Association (LPGA). She joined the LPGA in 1997. She is the third African American woman"
"age. The Senior Open Championship was not recognised as a major by PGA Tour Champions until 2003. The European Senior Tour recognises only the Senior PGA and the two Senior Opens as majors. However, PGA Tour Champions is arguably more dominant in global senior golf than the U.S. LPGA is in global women's golf. After a 112-year absence from the Olympic Games, golf returned for the 2016 Rio Games. 41 different countries were represented by 120 athletes. It wasn't until 1552 that the first woman golfer played the game. Mary Queen of Scots commissioned St. Andrew's Links. However, it wasn't"
"American Games and the silver medal at the 2014 South American Games. ""Results not in chronological order before 2018."" LA = Low amateur<br> DNP = did not play<br> CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> ""T"" = tied<br> Yellow background for top-10. Amateur Mariajo Uribe María José Uribe Durán (known more commonly as Mariajo Uribe; born 27 February 1990) is a professional golfer from Colombia, currently playing on the LPGA Tour. Uribe was born in Girón, Santander. At age 17, she won the 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur, defeating Amanda Blumenherst 1 up. She is the only player from Latin America to"
"Tennis Professionals (ATP) Marcelo Rios, the first Latin American World number 1 in women tennis and the first Latin American to win a Grand Slam Anita Lizana, three-time French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten, US Open winner Gabriela Sabatini, French Open winners Gastón Gaudio and Andrés Gómez, 2009 US Open winner Juan Martín del Potro, and double Olympic Gold medalist Nicolás Massú. Golf is growing in popularity in both Brazil and Argentina but is not widely played elsewhere in South America. Bolivia has the highest tournament class golf course in the world. Jai alai or Basque pelota is played in many"
"world. She also said: ""I just want to be honest with all of you. I went to Asia, and after two or three days of being in Thailand, it was really easy to me – it was really clear to see that I didn't want to be out there, you know. I just was thinking of other things. I wanted to get home. I wanted to start working on the foundation. I wanted to be here close to my family."" Ochoa said she would still maintain her membership in the LPGA and would play in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational and"
"in rank from previous week. Notes ""As of 17 December 2018"" Active players are in bold.</small> Annika Sörenstam of Sweden topped the first set of rankings, which was released on Tuesday 21 February 2006. Paula Creamer (United States); Michelle Wie (United States); Yuri Fudoh (Japan); and Cristie Kerr (United States) took the other places in the top 5. The top one hundred players in the initial rankings came from the following countries: Women's World Golf Rankings The Women's World Golf Rankings, also known for sponsorship reasons as the Rolex Rankings, were introduced in February 2006. They are sanctioned by eight"
"of Poetry"", where the poems are read by well-known people of America. Also while working in Kazakhstan, Kazakh composer Tulegen Mukhamejanov used her poem as the basis for the song ""Do not go away."" A music video for the song featured a performance by Kazakh singer Lera. Svetlana Gounkina Svetlana Gounkina (, born 1 April 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian golfer. She is a multiple Russian National Champion. She was the Bronze medalist in the World Golfers Championship. Prior to golf she was a talented tennis player. She started playing golf in 1992 at Moscow City Golf Club in"
"girls back in Puerto Rico,” said Olivencia, attired in her nation’s colors — red shorts and red bow in her ponytail, white shoes and a navy blue shirt. “It’s history, and yes, I am honored and very proud to represent my country, but today I’m just another female playing in the Open.” Olivencia was cut on day two of the tournament. Janice Olivencia Janice Olivencia (born September 16, 1982 in Caguas, Puerto Rico) has been a professional golf player since May 2005. In 2009, she became the first Puerto Rican woman to play in the U.S. Women's Open, and only"
"Sir Bob Charles has won the British Open and a number of other titles. The precocious Lydia Ko, born in Seoul but raised from infancy in New Zealand, was #1 in the women's World Amateur Golf Ranking, and won two events on the US-based LPGA Tour before turning professional in 2013. She has since won seven more LPGA events, and is the current #1 in the Women's World Golf Rankings for professionals. The first of Ko's two stints as #1 in the professional rankings began in February 2015, before her 18th birthday, making her the youngest player of either sex"
"class due to high costs of participation in the game. The most important tournament played in the country is the Chile Open. There are two benchmarks for this sport in Chile. Nicole Perrot is the greatest athlete of Chilean women's golf due to her outstanding participation in the LPGA tour, the main world women's golf circuit, winning the Longs Drugs tournament of 2005. The current leading male golfer in Chile is Felipe Aguilar, who participated in the PGA European Tour, and his greatest achievement was winning the Open of Indonesia in February 2008, and he was the first participant in"
"Caroline Wozniacki Caroline Wozniacki (R) (; ; born 11 July 1990) is a Danish professional tennis player. She is a former world No. 1 in singles. She is also the first woman from a Scandinavian country to hold the top ranking position and 20th in the Open Era. She finished on top of the rankings in both 2010 and 2011. She has won 30 WTA singles titles, including six in 2010 and 2011, the most in a year by a WTA player from 2008–2011. She was runner-up at the 2009 US Open and the 2010 WTA Tour Championships to Kim"
"Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10. <nowiki>*</nowiki> Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year. Professional Inbee Park Inbee Park (, or ; born 12 July 1988) is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and the LPGA of Japan Tour. She has been the number one ranked player in the Women's World Golf Rankings for four separate runs: April 2013 to June 2014, October 2014 to February 2015, June 2015 to October 2015, and since April 2018. Park has won seven major championships in her career, including three"
"place in the 2009 Kids Golf European Championships beating 30 other golfers from around the world, held in Scotland. Liza Lorena Elizabeth Ann Jolene Luciano Winsett (born October 31, 1949), known by the stage name Liza Lorena, is a Filipino former beauty queen and multi-awarded actress in the Philippines. She was a First Runner-Up in the Bb. Pilipinas pageant in 1966. Lorena was a flight stewardess (for PAL domestic flights), tourist guide and PTTA receptionist before she became first runner-up in the 1966 Binibining Pilipinas pageant to Maria Clarinda Soriano, who placed in the Top 15 of the 1966 Miss"
"a major in 2013 DNP = did not play<br> CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> T = tied<br> Yellow background for top-10. <nowiki>*</nowiki> Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year. Amateur Professional Azahara Muñoz Azahara Muñoz Guijarro (born 19 November 1987) is a Spanish professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour. Muñoz was born in San Pedro, Málaga and Doña Mencía (Córdoba) in southern Spain and had a successful amateur career in both Europe and the United States. She won the 2002 Spanish Amateur title at age 14, the 2004"