Morgan Pressel

Morgan Pressel
— Golfer —
Pressel at the 2013 Women's British Open
Personal information
Full name	Morgan Pressel
Born	(1988-05-23) May 23, 1988 Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Boca Raton, Florida
Spouse	Andrew Bush (m. 2013)
Career
Turned professional	2005
Current tour(s)	LPGA Tour (joined 2006)
Professional wins	5
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour	2
LPGA of Japan Tour	1
Other	2
Best results in LPGA Major Championships (Wins: 1)
Kraft Nabisco C'ship	Won: 2007
LPGA Championship	2nd: 2011
U.S. Women's Open	T2: 2005
Women's British Open	T4: 2013
The Evian Championship	T31: 2013
Achievements and awards
AJGA Player of the Year	2005
AJGA Nancy Lopez Award	2006

Morgan Pressel (born May 23, 1988) is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the LPGA Tour. She turned pro at age 17 and is the youngest-ever winner of a modern LPGA major championship, which vaulted her to a career-high fourth in the world rankings.^[1]

Childhood and family life

Born in Tampa, Florida, to Mike Pressel and Kathy Krickstein Pressel, she attended Banyan Creek Elementary School, Omni Middle School, and graduated in 2006 from the Saint Andrew's School in Boca Raton, a private school affiliated with the Episcopal Church.^[2] She has stated that her Jewish faith plays a large role in her life.^[3]

Following her mother's death from breast cancer in September 2003, 15-year-old Pressel moved in with her grandparents Evelyn Krickstein and Dr. Herb Krickstein, a retired physician and pathologist who is her coach as well as her grandfather, while her two younger siblings stayed with their father. Pressel continues to live with her grandparents, who are the parents of former top-10 tennis player Aaron Krickstein, Pressel's uncle.^[4] For the eldest Krickstein, this is the second time he has groomed a young athlete into a star. Aaron Krickstein holds the record for being the youngest player ever to win a men's professional tournament, in Tel Aviv in 1983.

Pressel's younger sister Madison plays collegiate golf for the University of Texas.^[5]

In January 2013, Pressel married Andy Bush, a senior vice president at Octagon Global Events. The two met at a pro-am event in 2007.^[6][7]

Amateur career

In 2001, as a 12-year-old, she became the youngest player to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open. This record stood until 2007, when Lexi Thompson beat the record by several months.

At the age of 17, she was one of three co-leaders starting the final round of the 2005 U.S. Women's Open at Cherry Hills in suburban Denver. Pressel was tied for first on the 18th fairway when Birdie Kim holed out from the bunker just ahead to secure a one-stroke lead. Pressel then needed a birdie to tie, but made a bogey on the 18th to lose by two strokes. Her second-place finish gave her a share of the low amateur honors with Brittany Lang. Pressel played in a total of seven LPGA events in 2005 and made the cut in all of them, with an impressive scoring average of 70.96 in 28 rounds.^[8]

In 2005, Pressel won the North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst, and the most important amateur event, the U.S. Women's Amateur. Pressel also finished her amateur career as 2005 Girls Rolex Junior Player of the Year.

During her amateur career, she won 11 AJGA titles, including all five AJGA Invitationals: the "AJGA Slam".^[9]

Professional career

Pressel finished sixth in the first stage of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament in September 2005 and advanced to the final stage in December.^[10] She turned professional in November, after appealing to the LPGA to become a member as a 17-year-old. LPGA rules state that members must be 18 years old.^[2] At the five-round Final Qualifying Tournament in Daytona Beach, she finished tied for sixth to earn her tour card for 2006.^[11] She played part-time on the tour until her high school graduation in May 2006.

Pressel earned her first victory in 2007 at the Kraft Nabisco Championship and became the youngest-ever winner of a modern LPGA major at 700118000000000000018 years, 7002313000000000000313 days.^[12] On her flight home to Florida after her win, Pressel had her golf clubs stolen.^[13] The win moved her from 17th in the world rankings to fourth.^[1]

Pressel made her first hole-in-one as a professional golfer on July 15, 2007, at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio. It was a 148-yard (135 m) par 3 – hole 6 for the tournament. It was not enough to win, though; Se Ri Pak won the event for the fifth time.^[13]

Pressel qualified for the 2007, 2009 and 2011 Solheim Cup teams; earning a spot on the 2007 team in her second full-year on the LPGA Tour as a 19-year-old. Through 2011, she is undefeated (3–0–0) in Solheim Cup singles play.

In the 2012 Sybase Match Play Championship, Pressel was in contention for her third LPGA Tour victory in the semi-finals when she was 2 up after 11 holes to opponent Azahara Muñoz. Pressel won the 12th hole but a slow play penalty resulted in the loss of the hole instead. She would lose the match and Muñoz would go on to win the tournament.^[14]

She is represented by Wasserman Media Group and has endorsement deals with Callaway Golf, Polo Ralph Lauren, Royal Bank of Canada, and Audemars Piguet.

Professional wins (5)

LPGA Tour (2)

Legend

Major championships (1)

Other LPGA Tour (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share ($)
1	Apr 1, 2007	Kraft Nabisco Championship	74-72-70-69=285	−3	1 stroke	Catriona Matthew Brittany Lincicome Suzann Pettersen	300,000
2	Oct 19, 2008	Kapalua LPGA Classic	72-72-67-69=280	−8	1 stroke	Suzann Pettersen	225,000

LPGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2009	Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic	Eunjung Yi	Lost to birdie on first extra hole

LPGA majors are shown in bold.

LPGA of Japan Tour (1)

• 2010 (1) World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup

Other wins (2)

• 2007 (1) Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Natalie Gulbis and Cristie Kerr), unofficial event
• 2012 (1) CVS Caremark Charity Classic (with Jay Haas), unofficial event

Major championships

Wins (1)

No.	Year	Championship	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	2007	Kraft Nabisco Championship	−3 (74-72-70-69=285)	1 stroke	Brittany Lincicome, Catriona Matthew, Suzann Pettersen

Results timeline

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Kraft Nabisco Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T19	T13	1	T38	T40	T19	T3	T46	T52
LPGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	69	14	T6	CUT	T7	2	T45	T3
U.S. Women's Open	CUT	DNP	52	DNP	T2TLA	T28	T10	T17	T13	T34	T21	WD	T20
Women's British Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T56	CUT	CUT	T42	8	T49	T43	T4
The Evian Championship ^													T31

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013
LA = Low amateur
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
T = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

• Starts – 37
• Wins – 1
• 2nd place finishes – 2
• 3rd place finishes – 2
• Top 3 finishes – 5
• Top 5 finishes – 6
• Top 10 finishes – 10
• Top 25 finishes – 18
• Missed cuts – 4
• Most consecutive cuts made – 13
• Longest streak of top-10s – 3

LPGA Tour career summary

Year	Tournaments played	Cuts made*	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top 10s	Best finish	Earnings ($)	Money list rank	Scoring average	Scoring rank
2001	1	0	0	0	0	0	CUT	n/a		77.00
2003	1	1	0	0	0	0	52			76.00
2005	7	7	0	1	0	2	T2			70.96
2006	23	21	0	0	1	9	3	465,685	24	71.51	20
2007	25	23	1	1	3	8	1	972,452	9	71.34	6
2008	26	21	1	1	0	5	1	711,261	24	72.04	42
2009	24	21	0	2	0	3	5	630,313	22	71.38	29
2010	23	22	0	1	0	7	T2	767,455	13	71.05	11
2011	22	20	0	1	1	7	2	845,466	13	71.34	14
2012	23	15	0	0	1	1	3	271,548	45	73.65	98
2013	24	18	0	0	1	3	T3	504,188	28	71.70	33

• Official through November 24, 2013.^[15]

* Includes matchplay and other events without a cut.

World ranking

Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.

Year	World ranking	Source
2006	25	[16]
2007	12	[17]
2008	19	[18]
2009	23	[19]
2010	17	[20]
2011	16	[21]
2012	38	[22]

Pressel's career-high in the world rankings is fourth, in the spring of [2007.^[1]

Team appearances

Amateur

• Junior Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2002 (winners) and 2005 (winners)

Professional

• Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2007 (winners), 2009 (winners), 2011, 2013
• Lexus Cup (representing International team): 2006, 2007

Solheim Cup record

Year	Total matches	Total W–L–H	Singles W–L–H	Foursomes W–L–H	Fourballs W–L–H	Points won	Points %
Career	15	8–5–2	3–1–0	3–2–0	2–2–2	9.0	60.0
2007	4	1–2–1	1–0–0 def. A. Sörenstam 2&1	0–1–0 lost w/ N. Gulbis 3&2	0–1–1 halved w/ P. Creamer, lost w/ C. Kerr 3&2	1.5	37.5
2009	3	2–0–1	1–0–0 def. A. Nordqvist 3&2	1–0–0 won w/ K. McPherson 2 up	0–0–1 halved w/ M. Wie	2.5	83.3
2011	4	4–0–0	1–0–0 def. A. Nordqvist 2&1	1–0–0 won w/ R. O'Toole 3&2	2–0–0 won w/ P. Creamer 1 up, won w/ C. Kerr 1 up	4.0	100.
2013	4	1–3–0	0–1–0 lost to C. Ciganda 4&2	1–1–0 won w/ J. Korda 3&2, won w/ J. Korda 2&1	0–1–0 lost w/ C. Kerr 2 dn	1.0	25.0

See also

• List of Jewish golfers

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Morgan Pressel.

• Morgan Pressel at the LPGA Tour official site
• Morgan's Yahoo Group
• Newslib.com feed of articles about Morgan Pressel
• MorganPressel.org
• Swing Sequence
• South Florida Sun-Sentinel – photo gallery: Morgan Pressel through the years
• Morgan P Foundation on Twitter

v t e Dinah Shore/Kraft Nabisco Championship champions 1983 Amy Alcott 1984 Juli Inkster† 1985 Alice Miller 1986‡ Pat Bradley 1987‡ Betsy King 1988 Amy Alcott 1989‡ Juli Inkster 1990 Betsy King† 1991‡ Amy Alcott 1992 Dottie Mochrie† 1993 Helen Alfredsson 1994 Donna Andrews 1995 Nanci Bowen 1996 Patty Sheehan 1997 Betsy King 1998‡ Pat Hurst 1999 Dottie Pepper 2000‡ Karrie Webb 2001 Annika Sörenstam 2002 Annika Sörenstam 2003 Patricia Meunier-Lebouc 2004 Grace Park 2005 Annika Sörenstam 2006 Karrie Webb† 2007 Morgan Pressel 2008 Lorena Ochoa 2009 Brittany Lincicome 2010 Yani Tseng 2011 Stacy Lewis 2012 Sun-Young Yoo† 2013 Inbee Park † event won in a playoff; ‡ event won wire-to-wire

Morgan Pressel in the Solheim Cup v t e United States Solheim Cup team – 2007 Nicole Castrale Paula Creamer Laura Diaz Natalie Gulbis Pat Hurst Juli Inkster Cristie Kerr Brittany Lincicome Stacy Prammanasudh Morgan Pressel Angela Stanford Sherri Steinhauer Beth Daniel (non-playing assistant captain) Betsy King (non-playing captain) Won: 16 – 12 v t e United States Solheim Cup team – 2009 Nicole Castrale Paula Creamer Natalie Gulbis Juli Inkster Cristie Kerr Christina Kim Brittany Lang Brittany Lincicome Kristy McPherson Morgan Pressel Angela Stanford Michelle Wie Beth Daniel (non-playing captain) Meg Mallon (non-playing assistant captain) Kelly Robbins (non-playing assistant captain) Won: 16 – 12 v t e United States Solheim Cup team – 2011 Paula Creamer Vicky Hurst Juli Inkster Cristie Kerr Christina Kim Brittany Lang Stacy Lewis Brittany Lincicome Ryann O'Toole Morgan Pressel Angela Stanford Michelle Wie Rosie Jones (non-playing captain) Juli Inkster (playing assistant captain) Sherri Steinhauer (non-playing assistant captain) Lost: 13–15 v t e United States Solheim Cup team – 2013 Paula Creamer Cristie Kerr Jessica Korda Brittany Lang Stacy Lewis Brittany Lincicome Gerina Piller Morgan Pressel Lizette Salas Angela Stanford Lexi Thompson Michelle Wie Meg Mallon (non-playing captain) Laura Diaz (non-playing assistant captain) Dottie Pepper (non-playing assistant captain) Lost: 10–18

Persondata
Name	Pressel, Morgan
Alternative names
Short description	Professional golfer
Date of birth	May 23, 1988
Place of birth	Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Date of death
Place of death