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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Ward, Wendy
Ward, Wendy
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, Wendy was born on 6th May 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. Her height is five feet nine inches. She had a very successful amateur career. She was the 1992 Texas State Women’s champion and the 1994 World Team Amateur champion and medalist. She was the 1994 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion and a member of the 1994 U.S. Curtis Cup Team. Ward played collegiate golf at Arizona State University, where her team was three-time national champions from 1993 to 95.
In 1995, she turned professional on July 17 and competed in four LPGA events. In 1999, at the Standard Register PING, she finished fifth. In 2000, she tied for third at both the McDonald’s LPGA Championship and Giant Eagle LPGA Classic. In 2001, she finished second at the LPGA Champions Classic after a five-hole, sudden-death playoff with Wendy Doolan. In 2005 she won her fourth career title at the LPGA Takefuji Classic, where she shot a season-low 65 in the first round. She also finished third at the HSBC Women’s World Match Play Championship.
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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