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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Walker Cooper, Lee Ann
Walker-Cooper, Lee Ann
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. LPGA, Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour 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.
Walker-Cooper, Lee Ann was born on 18th March 1972 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and her height is five feet six inches. She was the 1993 North Carolina Amateur champion and a co-champion in 1994. In 1995, she turned professional and began competing on the Futures Tour, where she has posted 13 top-10 finishes. In 1999, she tied for 46th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to gain non-exempt status for the 2000 season. In 2000, at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament, she tied for 49th to earn non-exempt status for the 2001 season. In 2002, she competed on the Futures Tour, where she posted one top-10 finish. In 2003, she competed in 10 events on the Futures Tour, posting three top-10 finishes, including a win at the Florida Hospital Futures Golf Classic and also earned exempt status for the 2004 season in an eight-way, three-hole playoff.
In 2004, she posted her career-low 66 on two occasions first was the second round of the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship hosted by Nancy Lopez and the first round of the LPGA Corning Classic. In 2005, she equaled her career-best finish at the Wegmans Rochester LPGA, where she tied for 18th. She carded a season-low 67 in the second round of the Longs Drugs Challenge. She returned to the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament presented by American Airlines, where she tied for second to earn exempt status for the 2006 season.
The desire to use her talents for the Glory and Honor of her God and Country propelled her in an attempt to excel at the highest level of sporting achievement to inspire future generations of her countrymen to do the same upholding the highest standards of patriotic fervor.
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