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Rorer, Amelia

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.

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.

Amelia Rorer was born on 25 November 1952 in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Her height is 4 foot 11 inches. She became professional from 1975, and her lowest career round is 68. In Amateur, Amelian was the runner-up in the Philadelphia Junior Championship and a semifinalist in both the Pennsylvania Amateur and the Philadelphia City Championship in 1970-71.

She competed in 27 events; Amelia classifies 1981 as an uninspiring year even though she recorded the best scoring average of her five year LPGA career. Her best finishes was a T-10 at the U.S.Women's Open. Her career best finish was a tie for fourth in the Coca-cola classic in 1980 where a double bogey on the final hole cost her spot in the playoff. She is the shortest player on tour and was Member of the delta Zeta Sorority. Amelia Rorer, with all her commitment and devotion in her play has achieved many goals in her overall playing career.

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