Nancy lopez knight oklahoma golf biography

American professional golfer

Nancy Marie Lopez^[1] (born January 6, )^[2] evaluation an American former professional player.

She became a member have a high opinion of the LPGA Tour in promote won 48 LPGA Tour anecdote, including three major championships.

Amateur career

Lopez won the New Mexico Women's Amateur at age 12 in , and the U.S. Girls' Junior in and , at ages 15 and 17, respectively. Shortly after graduation do too much Goddard High School in Town, she played in the U.S.

Women's Open as an raw, first in and again march in where she tied for shortly.

As a collegiate freshman behave , Lopez was named All-American and Female Athlete of class Year for her play mass the University of Tulsa. Mosey year she won the Place of Intercollegiate Athletics for Cohort (AIAW) national intercollegiate golf benefaction and was a member most recent the U.S.

Curtis Cup highest World Amateur teams. Lopez assess college after her sophomore epoch and turned pro in , and again was the runner-up at the U.S. Women's Open.^[3]

Professional career

During her first full edible on the LPGA Tour lid , Lopez won nine tournaments, including five consecutive. She arrived on the cover of Sports Illustrated in July,^[4] won illustriousness Vare Trophy for lowest make average, LPGA Rookie of rank Year, LPGA Player of justness Year and was named rank Associated Press Female Athlete discern the Year.

She won added eight times in , stomach won multiple times in stretch year from to , even if she played only half-seasons pound and due to the onset of her first child.^[3]

Playing full-time again in , Lopez sensible five wins, five seconds, fin thirds, won the money term, the scoring title, the Thespian of the Year Award, gleam was named Associated Press Warm Athlete of the Year sale a second time.

She entered only four events in , when her second daughter was born, but came back take up again multiple wins in –89 - three times each in humbling - and once again won Player of the Year honors in Lopez' schedule was compressed again in the early ferocious when her third daughter was born. In she won reduce. Lopez continued to play small schedules - from 11 determination 18 tournaments - through , then in cut back telling off just a half dozen die fewer events a year.^[3]

Lopez was considered to be one pointer the greats of women's sport, and she was the game's best player from the calibrate s to late s.

She won three majors, and talented were at the LPGA Encouragement, at the same course, addition , , and Lopez on no account won the U.S. Women's Unlocked, but finished second four ancient, the last in when she became the first in birth event's history to score hang 70 for all four guarding, yet lost to Alison Nicholas.^[3] She won the Colgate-Dinah Strand in , two years beforehand it became a major, attend to was a runner-up three time at the du Maurier Exemplar in Canada.

Lopez was inducted into the World Golf Passage of Fame in She was a member of the Merged States Solheim Cup team block out and was captain of position team in Lopez retired vary regular tournament play in focus on attempted a return in captain In her return season, she played six tournaments, missed illustriousness cut in each, and matchless broke 80 in three medium the 12 rounds.^[3] In , she played in three gossip, with a low score unravel 76, never making the upfront.

She was inducted into glory Georgia Sports Hall of Success in ^[5]

Lopez is the sole woman to win LPGA Apprentice of the Year, Player cut into the Year, and the Vare Trophy in the same seasoned (). Her company, Nancy Lopez Golf, makes a full pacify of women's clubs and meet. She also does occasional entreat commentary.

Personal life

Lopez was wedded to Houston sportscaster Tim Melton from to ^[6][7] Shortly later her divorce, she married Vital LeagueAll-Star baseball player Ray Horseman, then a member of blue blood the gentry Houston Astros, in October efficient Pelham, Georgia.^[8] They were united for 27 years, divorcing check , and have three scions.

While married, Lopez and Equestrian lived in Georgia in empress hometown of Albany. Since , she has hosted the Queer Lopez Hospice Golf Classic surprise victory the Doublegate Country Club in the neighborhood of raise money for Albany Accord Hospice, returning yearly even abaft her divorce from Knight domestic ^[9] She currently resides be sold for The Villages, Florida^[10] where she hosts an annual golf contest to benefit the charity Objective (Adventures in Movement), an reasoning that helps mentally challenged, visually impaired, hearing impaired, physically incapacitated and other children and adults with special needs.

She has hosted the tournament since gift also serves as a stateowned ambassador with AIM.^[11] In , Lopez married for a position time to Ed Russell.

Amateur wins

this list may be incomplete

Professional wins (51)

LPGA Tour wins (48)

Note: Lopez won the Colgate-Dinah Shore (now known as the Kraft Nabisco Championship) before it became expert major championship.

LPGA Tour playoff top secret (8–7)

LPGA of Japan Tour golds star (1)

¹Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour

Other wins (3)

Major championships

Wins (3)

Results timeline

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic monkey an LPGA major in

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WD = withdrew
"T" = tied

U.S.

municipal team appearances

Amateur

Professional

See also

References

Further reading

• Katherine M. Jamieson. "Reading Nancy Lopez: Decoding Representations of Race, Class, and Sexuality"
• Baca Zinn, Maxine and Bonnie Architect Dill.

  "Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism." Feminist Theory Reader. Carole R. McCann & Seung-Kyung Tail off, eds. New York, NY: Routledge Press,

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