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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Washam, Jo Ann
Washam, Jo 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.
Washam, Jo Ann was born on 24th May 1950 in Auburn, Washington. Her height is five feet three inches. She played a limited eight-event schedule in 1989. In 1988 she played in 23 tournaments and recorded three top-30 finishes. The best season of Washam’s 17 year career was 1980. She posted 12 top–10 placing on her way to over 107,000 dollars in earning a three-time winner on the tour. She won the 1975 Patty Berg classic, the 1975 Portland classic and the 1979 Rall Charity Golf classic. She also captured two unofficial events, and became the only player in LPGA History to have scored two holes in one during the same event.
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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