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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Whitmire, Melissa
Whitmire, Melissa
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 at least five centuries in the British Isles. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play.
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.
Melissa Whitmire, LPGA player was born on September 8, 1957 in Hendersonville, NC. Her height is five feet four inches. Whitmire had surgery on her left hand in January of 1989 and hence participated in only 10 events. Her best finish was a tie for 49th at the Jamie fan Toledo classic.
Whitmire’s career best performance was at the 1988 cellular one-ping golf championship where she tied for 14th with rounds of 70-73-76. During the second round of the 1988 USX golf classic she tied her career low score of 69, which previously had been set at the 1986 du Maurier ltd. Classic. Whitmire did not take up the game of golf until she was 19.
She is one of the best known golf players in the history of the game. A unique style of game strategy and excellent judgment is what makes this great player one of the best all time golf players. Sheer determination, concentration and self confidence has helped her through out her professional career of playing golf to achieve what other players can only imagine of.
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