Lorena Ochoa
| Lorena Ochoa | |
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| — Golfer — | |
Ochoa in 2008
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| Personal information | |
| Born |
15 November 1981 Guadalajara, Mexico |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Nationality |
 Mexico
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| Residence | Guadalajara, Mexico |
| Spouse |
Andrés Conesa Labastida (m. 2009) |
| Career | |
| College |
University of Arizona (two years) |
| Turned professional | 2002 |
| Retired | 2010 |
| 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 |
| Symetra Tour | 3 |
| Best results in LPGA major championships (wins: 2) |
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| ANA Inspiration | 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 | |
| World Golf Hall of Fame | 2017 (member page) |
| Futures Tour Rookie of the Year |
2002 |
| Futures Tour Player of the Year |
2002 |
| LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year |
2003 |
| LPGA Tour Player of the Year |
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 |
| LPGA Vare Trophy | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 |
| LPGA Tour Money Winner |
2006, 2007, 2008 |
| Heather Farr Player Award | 2007 |
| Bob Jones Award | 2011 |
| (For a full list of awards, see here) | |
Lorena Ochoa Reyes (Spanish 
[ˈlore'naˈocho'a] ; born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010, and 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 in 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, she is considered the best Mexican golfer and the best Latin American female golfer of all time. Ochoa was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame and will be inducted in September 2017.
Born and raised in Guadalajara, Ochoa was the third of four children of a real estate developer and an artist. She took up golf at the age of five, won her first state event at the age of six, and her first national event at seven.
An 11-year-old Ochoa approached the professional Rafael Alarcon, 1979 winner of the Canadian Amateur Championship, as he worked on his game at Guadalajara Country Club, where her family lived near the 10th tee. She asked him if he would help her with her game. Alarcon asked her what her goal was, "She said she wanted to be the best player in the world."
As a junior, she captured 22 state events in Guadalajara and 44 national events in Mexico. She won five consecutive titles at the Junior World Golf Championships and in 2000 she enrolled at the University of Arizona in the U.S. on a golf scholarship, where she was a teammate of fellow freshman Natalie Gulbis. While a student in Tucson, Ochoa received regular tutoring and greatly improved her English by watching movies and reading magazines between practice and tournaments.
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