Lindsey Wright

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Lindsey Wright
— Golfer —

Wright before 2009 Women's British Open
Personal information
Full name Lindsey Elizabeth Wright
Born (1979-12-31) 31 December 1979
Tunbridge Wells, England
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Nationality  Australia
Residence Albury, Australia
McKinney, Texas, U.S.
Career
College Pepperdine University
Turned professional 2003
Current tour(s) LPGA Tour (joined 2004)
ALPG Tour
Former tour(s) Futures Tour
Professional wins 5
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour 1
ALPG Tour 2
Symetra Tour 3
Best results in LPGA Major Championships
Kraft Nabisco C'ship 4th: 2009
LPGA Championship 2nd: 2009
U.S. Women's Open T17: 2009
Women's British Open T17: 2012
The Evian Championship T52: 2013

Lindsey Elizabeth Wright (born 31 December 1979) is an Australian professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour. She earned exempt status for the 2004 LPGA season in 2003, and has been competing full time on the Tour since.

Personal life

Wright was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England and currently holds residence in both McKinney, Texas and Albury, Australia.

Amateur career

Wright took up golf at the age of nine. She was an Australian Institute of Sport golf scholarship holder from 1998 to 1999. [1] She finished second at the 2001 NCAA Championship while at Pepperdine University. She was a semifinalist at the 2002 U.S. Women's Amateur, finished second at the 2002 World Cup in Malaysia and was a finalist at the 2002 British Ladies Amateur. She played in the 2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship as an amateur and tied for 57th.

Other amateur victories and honours

  • 1998 Team winner of the Commonwealth Cup (AUS vs Commonwealth Teams)
  • 1998 Leading amateur at the Women's Australian Open
  • 1998-1999 AIS Scholarship Holder
  • 1998-1999 Victorian State Team Representative
  • 1999 Team winner of the Tasman Cup (AUS vz NZ)
  • 1999 Won AIS Golf Coaches Award (awarded by the head coach for performance/effort)
  • 2000-2003 Pepperdine University (Sports Administration Degree) 4 Time All-American
  • 2000 Represented Australia at the World Cup in Germany: T6 individually
  • 2003 NCAA Women's Team Championship runner-up while at Pepperdine University

Professional career

In 2003, Wright turned professional in June and competed on the Futures Tour, where she won the GE FUTURES Professional Golf Classic. She tied for 54th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn non-exempt status for the 2004 LPGA season. In 2004, she competed on the Futures Tour, where she won the Bank of Ann Arbor FUTURES Golf Classic and finished second on the money list to earn exempt status for the 2005 LPGA season. In 2005, she recorded a season-best tie for fifth at the Longs Drugs Challenge. In 2006, she recorded a season-best tie for sixth at the CN Canadian Women's Open and carded a career-low 66 during the second round of the Fields Open in Hawaii, where she tied for ninth.

Wright recorded a career-low finish at the McDonald's LPGA Championship, where she finished fourth and tied her career-low 66 in the final round. She also tied for fifth at the Wegmans LPGA and at the HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship.

Professional wins (5)

Futures Tour wins (3)

No. Date Tournament Winning
score		 To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Winner's
share ($)
1 20 Jul 2003 GE FUTURES Professional Golf Classic 74-72-70-69=205 –8 Playoff United States Michelle Fuller
England Lisa Hall		 8,400
2 9 May 2004 Isleta Casino & Resort FUTURES Gold Classic 68-69-66=203 –13 2 strokes South Korea Aram Cho 10,500
3 6 Jun 2004 Bank of Ann Arbor FUTURES Golf Classic 69-67-72=208 –13 1 stroke United States Kathryn Cusick
South Korea Jimin Kang		 8,400

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
1 2009 Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic South Korea Eunjung Yi Lost to birdie on first extra hole

ALPG Tour wins (2)

  • 2004 Catalina Country Club Pro-Am
  • 2012 ISPS Handa New Zealand Women's Open (co-sanctioned with Ladies European Tour)

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Kraft Nabisco Championship T57 DNP DNP CUT T26 T42 4 CUT T52 T43 73
LPGA Championship DNP DNP T16 T20 4 T18 2 T14 CUT DNP CUT
U.S. Women's Open DNP DNP CUT T37 DNP T42 T17 T48 T50 DNP CUT
Women's British Open DNP DNP CUT T31 CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT T17 T59
The Evian Championship ^ T52

DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for a top-10 finish.

Summary

  • Starts – 34
  • Wins – 0
  • 2nd place finishes – 1
  • 3rd place finishes – 0
  • Top 3 finishes – 1
  • Top 5 finishes – 3
  • Top 10 finishes – 3
  • Top 25 finishes – 9
  • Missed cuts – 12
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 5
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 2

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

  • World Cup (representing Australia): 2007, 2008

References

  1. ↑ Excellence: the Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission. 2002. ISBN 1-74013-060-X. 

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