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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Haley, Katie
Haley, Katie
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. LPGA, in is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, with headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida runs a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world from February to November each year. The LPGA was founded in 1950 by a group of 13 women. LPGA Tour's events are held in the United States.
Haley, Katie a LPGA player was born on 26th January 1967, in Bethesda, Maryland. Her height is five foot ten inches. Her career-best finish is 2 and career-low round is 65.
In 1999, her best finish was a tie for 21st at the First Union Betsy King Classic. In 1998, she recorded the second hole-in-one of her LPGA career during the first round of the Oldsmobile Classic. Her best finish was a tie for 28th at the Longs Drugs Challenge. In 1997, her best finish was a tie for 23rd at the Safeway LPGA Golf Championship. She posted her first career hole-in-one during the second round of the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic. In 1996, her best finish was a tie for 24th at the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship.
In Amateur, Peterson began playing golf at the age of seven in Fort Lauderdale and enjoyed a successful amateur career. As a junior, she won the 1983-84 Southern Juniors, the 1985 AJGA Tournament of Champions and the 1985 AJGA, American Junior Golf Association Hudson Invitational. She played on the University of North Carolina golf team, where she was the winner of the North-South, the Memphis Invitational and twice was the winner of the Duke Invitational. She was named an All-American in 1988 and also in 1989, a year in which she also won both The Western and Eastern Championships. In 1990, she was a member of the Curtis Cup Team and was the Doherty Cup and South-Atlantic champion.
She is a player known for her mental toughness owing to which many of her famous matches went the distance. Her superior approach and dedication to the game made her stand out from the crowd.
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