Laura Davies

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Laura Davies

Personal Information
Birth: 5 October 1963,
Coventry, England
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Nationality: British
Residence: Ottershaw, Surrey, England
Career
College: N/A
Turned Professional: 1985
Current Tour: LPGA Tour (joined 1988); life member of Ladies European Tour
Professional wins: 67 (LPGA Tour 20 other individual titles 47)
Majors: U.S. Women's Open 1987; LPGA Championship 1994, 96; du Maurier Classic 1996
Awards: Rolex Player of the Year 1996


Laura Davies (born October 5, 1963 in Coventry, England) is an English professional golfer. She is considered the most accomplished English female golfer of modern times. She is a member of both the U.S. based LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour.

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[edit] Amateur career

As an international player for Great Britain, Davies accumulated a notable record during her amateur career. She won the 1983 English Intermediate Championship, the 1984 Welsh Open Stroke Play Championship, the South Eastern Championship in both 1983-84 and was also a member of the Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup Team in 1984. She turned professional in 1985.

[edit] Professional career

As of the start of the 2006 season, Davies has accumulated 20 official victories on the LPGA Tour. She finished top of the money list in 1994 and was second in each of the following two years. At the same date she had more than 37 victories on the Ladies European Tour and she topped that tour's order of merit a record 7 times in 1985, 1986, 1992, 1996, 1999, 2004 and 2006. Davies is also the only player to participate in all nine Solheim Cup teams to date (1990-2005) on either the United States or European side.

In 2004 Davies was the first woman to compete in the men's European Tour, entering the ANZ Championship in Sydney, Australia. She failed to make the cut, finishing second to last. Two years later, Michelle Wie tried to best Davies' finish on the same tour but finished dead last at the Omega European Masters. Davies still holds the record for the highest finish by a woman on the European Tour.

Davies was awarded an OBE in 1988 and a CBE in 2000.

[edit] Professional wins

[edit] LPGA Tour

LPGA Majors are shown in bold.

[edit] Other

  • 1985 Belgian Open (Ladies European Tour (LET)),
  • 1986 British Women's Open (LET), Greater Manchester Tournament (LET)
  • 1988 Itoki Classic (JLPGA)
  • 1990 AGF Biarritz Open (LET)
  • 1991 Valextra Classic (LET)
  • 1992 The European Ladies Open (LET), The Ladies' English Open (LET), BMW Italian Ladies' Open (LET)
  • 1993 Waterford Dairies English Open (LET)
  • 1994 Irish Open (LET), Skoda Scottish (LET)
  • 1995 Evian Masters (LET), Guardian Irish Open (LET), Woodpecker Womens' Welsh Open (LET), Wilkinson Sword English Open (LET)
  • 1996 Evian Masters (LET), Wilkinson Sword English Open (LET), Italian Open di Sicilia
  • 1997 Ford-Stimorol Danish Open (LET), Hennessy Cup (LET)
  • 1998 Chrysler Open (LET)
  • 1999 Chrysler Open (LET), McDonald's WPGA Championship (LET), Compaq Open (LET), Praia d'El Rey European Cup (LET)
  • 2000 TSN Ladies World Cup Golf Ind (LET)
  • 2001 WPGA International Matchplay (LET), Itoen Ladies Open, (JLPGA)
  • 2002 P4 Norwegian Masters (LET)
  • 2003 ANZ Ladies Masters (LET)
  • 2004 AAMI Women's Australian Open (LET)
  • 2006 SAS Norwegian Masters (LET)

[edit] Results in LPGA majors

Tournament 1986 1987 1988 1989
Kraft Nabisco Championship CUT T33 T21 T42
LPGA Championship DNP DNP CUT T65
U.S. Women's Open T11 1 T50 T7
du Maurier Classic DNP DNP 2 T17
Tournament 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Kraft Nabisco Championship T44 T23 CUT T12 2 T3 T15 T16 T3 T70 T35
LPGA Championship CUT T51 T52 T45 1 2 1 T4 T44 T7 T6
U.S. Women's Open T26 T44 CUT T11 T12 T24 6 CUT T11 CUT T9
du Maurier Classic CUT T3 T20 DNP T38 CUT 1 T16 T22 2 73
Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Kraft Nabisco Championship T11 T21 4 T16 T23 CUT
LPGA Championship T6 CUT CUT T42 T3 T65
U.S. Women's Open CUT T32 CUT CUT CUT CUT
Women's British Open ^ T25 CUT T19 T8 T29 T16

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.
DNP = did not play.
CUT = missed the half=way cut.
"T" tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

[edit] LPGA Tour career summary

Year Majors Other wins LPGA wins Earnings ($) Money list rank Average
1988 0 2 2 160,382 15 72.98
1989 0 1 1 181,874 13 71.87
1990 0 0 0 64,863 64 73.72
1991 0 1 1 200,831 20 73.16
1992 0 0 0 150,163 39 72.94
1993 0 1 1 240,643 20 72.00
1994 1 2 3 687,201 1 70.91
1995 0 2 2 530,349 2 71.37
1996 2 2 4 927,302 2 70.32
1997 0 1 1 483,571 8 70.86
1998 0 1 1 517,547 11 71.9
1999 0 0 0 501,798 14 71.33
2000 0 2 2 557,158 11 71.91
2001 0 1 1 492,143 18 71.84
2002 0 0 0 344,232 29 71.68
2003 0 0 0 525,902 19 71.27
2004 0 0 0 351,961 36 71.04
2005 0 0 0 434,589 31 72.52
2006* 0 0 0 329,453 26 73.21
* As of August 14 2006.

[edit] Solheim Cup Record

Year Total Matches Total W-L-H Singles W-L-H 4somes W-L-H 4balls W-L-H Points Won Points %
Career 37 19-15-3 4-5-0 8-5-1 7-5-2 20.5 55.4%
1990 3 2-1-0 1-0-0 def. R. Jones 3&2 1-0-0 won w/A.Nicholas 2&1 0-1-0 lost w/A.Nicholas 4&3 2 66.7%
1992 3 3-0-0 1-0-0 def. B. Burton 4&2 1-0-0 won w/A.Nicholas 1up 1-0-0 won w/A.Nicholas 1up 3 100%
1994 3 1-2-0 0-1-0 lost to B. Burton 1 dn 1-0-0 won w/A.Nicholas 2&1 0-1-0 lost w/A.Nicholas 2&1 1 33.3%
1996 5 3-2-0 0-1-0 lost to M. McGann 3&2 1-1-0 lost w/A. Nicholas, 1 down, won w/T. Johnson, 4&3 2-0-0 won w/T. Johnson, 6&5, won w/L. Hackney 6&5 3 60%
1998 5 3-1-1 1-0-0 def. P. Hurst 1 up 1-1-0 lost w/T. Johnson, 3&1, won w/C. Sorenstam, 3&2 1-0-1 halved w/C. Sorenstam, won w/L. Hackney 2up 3.5 70%
2000 4 1-2-1 0-1-0 lost to K. Robbins 3&2 1-1-0 won w/A. Nicholas, 4&3,lost w/A. Nicholas, 6&5 0-0-1 halved w/R. Carriedo 1.5 37.5%
2002 5 2-3-0 0-1-0 lost to M. Mallon 3&2 1-1-0 won w/P. Marti, 2 up, lost w/P. Marti, 2&1 1-1-0 lost w/P. Marti 1dn, won w/S. Gustafson 1up 2 40%
2003 4 1-2-1 1-0-0 def. M. Mallon conceded on 15 0-0-1 halved w/C. Koch 0-2-0 lost w/C. Matthew 2&1, lost w/S.Gustafson 2&1 1.5 37.5%
2005 5 3-2-0 0-1-0 lost to P. Creamer 7&5 1-1-0 won w/M. Hjorth 2&1, lost w/M. Hjorth 3&2 2-0-0 won w/S. Pettersen 4&3, won w/A. Sörenstam 4&2 3 60%

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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