| Lee-Anne Pace | |
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Pace at the 2010 Women's British Open |
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Lee-Anne Pace |
| Born | 15 February 1981 Mossel Bay, South Africa |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Nationality | South Africa |
| Career | |
| College | Murray State University, University of Tulsa |
| Turned professional | 2005 |
| Current tour(s) | Ladies European Tour |
| Former tour(s) | LPGA Tour Futures Tour |
| Professional wins | 5 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| Ladies European Tour | 5 |
| Best results in LPGA Major Championships |
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| Kraft Nabisco C'ship | T70: 2011 |
| LPGA Championship | DNP |
| U.S. Women's Open | T55: 2011 |
| Women's British Open | T21: 2010 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| Ladies European Tour Order of Merit winner |
2010 |
| Ladies European Tour Player of the Year |
2010 |
Lee-Anne Pace (born 15 February 1981) is a South African professional golfer.
Pace was born in Mossel Bay, Western Cape.[1] She had a successful amateur collegiate career in the United States, where she attended Murray State University and the University of Tulsa, graduating with a degree in psychology.
Having turned professional in 2005, Pace played on the second tier Duramed Futures Tour in 2006 before qualifying for the LPGA Tour for 2007 at qualifying school. Having lost her card in the United States at the end of 2007, she qualified for the Ladies European Tour for 2008 via qualifying school. She made her breakthrough in 2010 with five wins at the Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open, the S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe,[2] the Finnair Masters, the Sanya Ladies Open, and the Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open. She ended the season at the top of the Order of Merit.[3]
Contents |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 Jun 2010 | Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open | -12 (69-67-68=204) | 1 stroke | Vikki Laing |
| 2 | 15 Aug 2010 | S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe | -6 (74-71-67-70=282) | 3 strokes | Melissa Reid Christel Boeljon |
| 3 | 29 Aug 2010 | Finnair Masters | -14 (66-64-69=199) | 3 strokes | Vikki Laing |
| 4 | 24 Oct 2010 | Sanya Ladies Open | -11 (68-71-66=205) | 1 stroke | Stefanie Michl |
| 5 | 31 Oct 2010 | Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open | -5 (71-72-68=211) | Playoff | Hannah Jun Julieta Granada Christel Boeljon |