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Stacy, Hollis

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 atleast five centuries in the British Isles. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. Golf is played on a tract of land known as the course which consists of a series of holes or cups. Most golf courses usually consist of nine or eighteen holes. LPGA stands for Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour. LPGA, in is an American organization for female professional golfers.

Hollis Stacy, LPGA player was born on March 16, 1954, in Savannah, Georgia. Her height is five foot five inches. Her Rookie year is July 1974 and 1975. Her playoff record is 6-1. Stacy is one of only two players to have won the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship three consecutive times from 1969-71. She won the 1970 north and South Women’s Amateur Championship and was on the 1972 U.S. Curtis Cup Team.

In July 1974, she qualified for the Tour by finishing fifth at the LPGA final qualifying tournament as a rookie, best finish was a tie for second at the bill branch LPGA classic. In 1975, her best finish was a tie for fourth at the Wheeling Ladies Classic. In 1977, she claimed three titles are the Rail Charity Golf Classic, Lady Tara Classic and her first of three U.S. Women’s Open titles.

In 1985, she won the Mazda Classic of Deer Creek and became the 10th player to cross the 1 million dollar mark in career earnings with a tie for 13th at the Nabisco Dinah Shore, carded the third hole-in-one of her LPGA career. In 1999, her best finish was a tie for fourth at three tournaments: the Naples LPGA Memorial; Welch’s and Circle K Championship and Firstar LPGA Classic.

Hollis Stacy, LPGA Victories won awards such as LPGA Victories 18, in 1977 lady Tara classic, U.S. women’s open, rail muscular dystrophy classic. In 1978 Birmingham Classic, U.S. women’s open, 1979 Mayflower Classic, 1981 West Virginia Bank Classic, Inamori Classic, 1982 Whirlpool Championship of Deer Creek, West Virginia LPGA Classic. 1984 U.S. women’s open. She never lost hope in herself and always fought hard to achieve her goal. She is still remembered as one of the best athletes in the history of Olympics.

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