Lorena Ochoa | |||||||||||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | Guadalajara, Mexico | 15 November 1981||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||||||||||||||||||
Sporting nationality | Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Andrés Conesa Labastida (m. 2009) | ||||||||||||||||||
Career | |||||||||||||||||||
College | University of Arizona (two years) | ||||||||||||||||||
Turned professional | 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||
Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2003) | ||||||||||||||||||
Former tour(s) | Futures Tour (joined 2002) | ||||||||||||||||||
Professional wins | 30 | ||||||||||||||||||
Number of wins by tour | |||||||||||||||||||
LPGA Tour | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||
Epson Tour | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Best results in LPGA major championships (wins: 2) | |||||||||||||||||||
Chevron Championship | Won: 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
Women's PGA C'ship | T3: 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
U.S. Women's Open | T2: 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
Women's British Open | Won: 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
Achievements and awards | |||||||||||||||||||
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(For a full list of awards, see here) |
Lorena Ochoa Reyes (Spanish: [loˈɾena oˈtʃoa] ; born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican former professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010. She was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive and total weeks (both are LPGA Tour records), from 23 April 2007 to her retirement on 2 May 2010, at the age of 28 years old. As the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world,[1] she is considered the best Mexican golfer and the best Latin American female golfer of all time.[2][3] Ochoa was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017.[4]