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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Ward, Meredith
Ward, Meredith
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.
Ward, Meredith was born on 25th January 1980 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her height is five feet three inches. She was the first girl to compete on a boy’s varsity team at her high school. From 1999 to 2002, she was a National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Academic All-American at Vanderbilt University. In 2000, she won the Tulane Greenwave Classic and was an All-Southeastern Conference, SEC Team selection, which she repeated in 2002. She won the 2001 McHenry Women’s Invitational and recorded 10 top-10 collegiate finishes.
In 2002, she turned professional in June and joined the Futures Tour. In 2004, she recorded a career-best tie for third at the Tampa Bay Futures Golf Classic on the Futures Tour. In 2005, she finished 46th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament presented by American Airlines to earn nonexempt status for the 2006 LPGA Tour 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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