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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Lim, Siew Ai
Lim, Siew-Ai
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. 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.
Siew-Ai Lim was born on 1 October 1974 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her height is 5 foot 5 inches. Lim won the Thailand Ladies Amateur Championship in 1992 and captured the Malaysian Ladies Amateur title in 1992 and 1994. She played collegiate golf at the University of South Carolina where, in 1995, Lim won All-America honors and was named SEC, Southeastern Conference Player of the Year.
In 1996, she turned professional. From 1997 to 98, she competed on both the Futures Tour and the Asian Tour. In 1998, she tied for 58th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn non-exempt status for the 1999 season. In 1999, she recorded a tie for 30th at the Japan Airlines Big Apple Classic and returned to the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament and tied for 51st to retain non-exempt status for the 2000 season. In 2000, she competed on the SBC Futures Tour, where she won the Carolina National Futures Classic and returned to the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament and tied for 18th to gain non-exempt status for the 2001 season.
In 2001, her best finish was a tie for 17th at the Electrolux USA Championship hosted by Vince Gill and Amy Grant and returned to the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament and tied for 10th to earn exempt status for the 2002 season. In 2003, her best finish was a tie for 24th at the Wendy’s Championship for Children at Tartan Fields. In 2004, she enjoyed the best season of her career with $177,377 in earnings, more money than she had earned in five previous seasons combined and recorded a career-best tie for second at the Kellogg-Keebler Classic. She recorded the first hole in one of her LPGA career during the second round of the Longs Drugs Challenge. Her superior approach and dedication to the game made her stand out from the crowd.
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