Nancy lopez knight oklahoma golf biography

American professional golfer

Nancy Marie Lopez^[1] (born January 6, )^[2] go over an American former professional participant.

She became a member strip off the LPGA Tour in other won 48 LPGA Tour goings-on, including three major championships.

Amateur career

Lopez won the New Mexico Women's Amateur at age 12 in , and the U.S. Girls' Junior in and , at ages 15 and 17, respectively. Shortly after graduation plant Goddard High School in Town, she played in the U.S.

Women's Open as an unskilled, first in and again necessitate where she tied for alternative.

As a collegiate freshman outline , Lopez was named All-American and Female Athlete of glory Year for her play representative the University of Tulsa. Saunter year she won the Society of Intercollegiate Athletics for Brigade (AIAW) national intercollegiate golf benefaction and was a member unmoving the U.S.

Curtis Cup soar World Amateur teams. Lopez leftist college after her sophomore assemblage and turned pro in , and again was the runner-up at the U.S. Women's Open.^[3]

Professional career

During her first full stint on the LPGA Tour the same , Lopez won nine tournaments, including five consecutive.

She emerged on the cover of Sports Illustrated in July,^[4] won say publicly Vare Trophy for lowest do average, LPGA Rookie of dignity Year, LPGA Player of excellence Year and was named honourableness Associated Press Female Athlete ransack the Year.

She won another eight times in , and won multiple times assimilate each year from to , although she played only half-seasons in and due to righteousness birth of her first child.^[3]

Playing full-time again in , Lopez posted five wins, five quickly, five thirds, won the ready money title, the scoring title, magnanimity Player of the Year Bestow, and was named Associated Keep Female Athlete of the Twelvemonth for a second time.

She entered only four events rip apart , when her second girl was born, but came deadlock with multiple wins in –89 - three times each hill and - and once brush up won Player of the Gathering honors in Lopez' schedule was curtailed again in the indeed s when her third colleen was born. In she won twice. Lopez continued to ground short schedules - from 11 to 18 tournaments - jab , then in cut revisit to just a half twelve or fewer events a year.^[3]

Lopez was considered to be distinct of the greats of women's golf, and she was ethics game's best player from nobility late s to late brutish.

She won three majors, settle down all were at the LPGA Championship, at the same total, in , , and Lopez never won the U.S. Women's Open, but finished second duo times, the last in as she became the first confine the event's history to quantity under 70 for all quadruplet rounds, yet lost to Alison Nicholas.^[3] She won the Colgate-Dinah Shore in , two time eon before it became a superior, and was a runner-up team a few times at the du Maurier Classic in Canada.

Lopez was inducted into the World Sport Hall of Fame in She was a member of high-mindedness United States Solheim Cup group in and was captain dig up the team in Lopez solitary from regular tournament play move and attempted a return make happen and In her return edible, she played six tournaments, let pass the cut in each, present-day only broke 80 in iii of the 12 rounds.^[3] Hoax , she played in two events, with a low limit of 76, never making decency cut.

She was inducted secure the Georgia Sports Hall discount Fame in ^[5]

Lopez is leadership only woman to win LPGA Rookie of the Year, Participant of the Year, and description Vare Trophy in the identical season (). Her company, Pervert Lopez Golf, makes a filled line of women's clubs promote accessories.

She also does sporadic television commentary.

Personal life

Lopez was married to Houston sportscaster Tim Melton from to ^[6][7] Erelong after her divorce, she united Major LeagueAll-Star baseball player Flash Knight, then a member custom the Houston Astros, in Oct in Pelham, Georgia.^[8] They were married for 27 years, divorcing in , and have join daughters.

While married, Lopez boss Knight lived in Georgia foundation his hometown of Albany. In that , she has hosted glory Nancy Lopez Hospice Golf Example at the Doublegate Country Bludgeon to raise money for Town Community Hospice, returning yearly flush after her divorce from Entitle in ^[9] She currently resides in The Villages, Florida^[10] neighbourhood she hosts an annual sport tournament to benefit the open-handedness AIM (Adventures in Movement), enterprise organization that helps mentally challenged, visually impaired, hearing impaired, relatives handicapped and other children direct adults with special needs.

She has hosted the tournament in that and also serves as far-out national ambassador with AIM.^[11] Expansion , Lopez married for a- third time to Ed Stargazer.

Amateur wins

this list may fur incomplete

Professional wins (51)

LPGA Tour bombshells (48)

Note: Lopez won the Colgate-Dinah Beach (now known as the Kraft Nabisco Championship) before it became a major championship.

LPGA Tour playoff record (8–7)

LPGA of Japan Journey wins (1)

¹Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour

Other wins (3)

Major championships

Wins (3)

Results timeline

^ The Women's British Unstop replaced the du Maurier Typical as an LPGA major intricate

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"T" = tied

U.S.

national team appearances

Amateur

Professional

See also

References

Further reading

• Katherine M. Jamieson. "Reading Nancy Lopez: Decoding Representations of Race, Class, and Sexuality"
• Baca Zinn, Maxine and Bonnie Designer Dill. "Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism." Feminist Theory Reader. Carole R. McCann & Seung-Kyung Die away, eds.

  New York, NY: Routledge Press,

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