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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Mizrahie, Barbra
Mizrahie, Barbra
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.
Mizrahie, Barbra a LPGA player was born on 23 August 1951 in Surabaya, Indonesia. She joined the LPGA Tour in 1978, her career-best finish was a tie for sisth at the 1981 Florida Lady Citrus, she posted her career-low round of 66 at the 1981 LPGA Coring classic, her ,ost successful sesson was in 1985 when she earned over 30,000 dollars.
Growing up in Indonesia, Mizrahie distinguished herself as perhaps the only Jewish female golfer in her country. Certainly she was the most successful. Although she did not take up golf until the age of 14- barefoot and with only four clubs-Mizrahie won her first of tour consecutive Indonesian women’s Amateur’s at the age of 17 in 1968. She came to the united ststes to study medicine but language barriers made that pursuit difficult. Instead,Mizrahie continued her golfing interests and won the 1974 california publinx title.
She is one of the best known golf players. A unique style of game strategy and excellent judgment is what makes this great player one of the best all time golf players. Sheer determination, concentration and self confidence have helped her through out her professional career.
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