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Whitehead, Barb

Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. 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.

Barb Whitehead, LPGA player was born on January 22, 1961, in Sibley, Iowa. Her height is five foot five inches. Whitehead was the 1978 to 79 Iowa Junior champion and medallist at the Iowa High School tournament. A 1980 All-American for the University of Tulsa, she was the medallist at the 1980 Nancy Lopez and 1983 Lamar Invitationals and placed third in the 1982 NCAA, National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship.

In 1983, she qualified for the Tour by holing out a bunker shot on the final hole of the LPGA final qualifying tournament. In 1984, her best finish was a tie for eighth at her first event, the Mazda Classic of Deer Creek and recorded the first of five careers holes-inone at the Boston Five Classic. In 1987, her top finish was a tie for 19th at the Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Open. In 1991, her best finish was a tie for 16th at the Desert Inn LPGA International.

In 1994, her best finish was a tie for 11th at the Children’s Medical Center LPGA Classic and carded the second hole-in-one of her career at the ShopRite LPGA Classic. In 1995, she became a Rolex first-time winner at the Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open, where she tied her career-low round of 66 during the second round and she also fired a 66 during the second round of the McDonald’s LPGA Championship.

In 1999, she played a limited schedule due to the birth of her first child, Sarah Ellen, on July 16. In 2000, her top finish of the season was a tie for 17th at the Longs Drugs challenge and recorded the fifth hole-in-one of her career during the first round of the Longs Drugs Challenge. She never lost hope in herself and always fought hard to achieve her goal. She is still remembered as one of the best athletes in the history of Olympics.

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