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Steinhauer, Sherri

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.

Sherri Steinhauer, LPGA player was born on December 27, 1962, in Madison, WI. Her height is five foot seven inches. Her rookie year is 1986, and career victories are 6 in 2004. Steinhauer’s junior career is topped by her three consecutive wins at the Wisconsin State Junior Championship from 1978-80. In 1983, she won the Women’s Trans-National. She played collegiate golf at the University of Texas, where she claimed five victories and All-America honors in 1985. She also was named MVP, Most Valuable Player in 1983 and 1985. She was low amateur at the 1983 U.S. Women’s Open.

She played on the futures tour in 1985 and qualified for the tour by winning the LPGA final qualifying tournament to earn exempt status for the 1986 season. In 1994, she won her second career title at the Sprint Championship and was a member of the victorious U.S. Solheim Cup Team. In 1997, her best finish was fourth place at the Welch’s Championship, where she also crossed the 2 million dollars mark in career earnings and recorded her third LPGA career hole-in-one during the first round of the Safeway LPGA Golf Championship. In 1999, she won the Japan Airlines Big Apple Classic in a five-hole playoff over Lorie Kane, and repeated as champion of the Weetabix Women’s British Open.

In 2005, she tied for 11th at the Longs Drugs Challenge, where she notched her fourth LPGA career hole-in-one during the second round en route to shooting a season-low 65. She recorded a season-best tie for 10th at the Safeway Classic Presented by Pepsi. She had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by just giving some extra hard work and efforts. She never lost hope in herself and always fought hard to achieve her goal.

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