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Green, Tammie

Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. LPGA stands for Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour, which is an American organization for female professional golfers headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Green, Tammie was born on 17th December 1959, in Somerset, Ohio. Her height is 5 foot 8 inches. On December 3rd, 1998, she was inducted into the Ohio Golf Hall of Fame in 2004 and was named Most Improved Player, MVP by Golf Digest in 1989. She was also a member of the LPGA Tour Player Executive Committee from 1992 to 94. She was a member of the Marshall University golf team and won four collegiate events, three of which she won during her senior year in 1982. She also earned low-amateur honors at the 1981 LPGA Wheeling Classic.

In 2004, she recorded her season-best finish at the ShopRite LPGA Classic, where she tied for sixth and crossed the 4 million dollar mark in career earnings at the McDonald’s LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola. In 2003, she posted three top 10s, including a tie for second at the John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic. In 2002, she finished fifth at the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic. In 2001, she finished second at the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic for her best finish of the season. In 2000, she finished 16th at the Philips Invitational Honoring Harvey Penick.

The desire to use her talents for the Glory and Honor of her God and Country propelled her in an attempt to excel at the highest level of sporting achievement to inspire future generations of her countrymen to do the same upholding the highest standards of patriotic fervor.

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