| Lorena Ochoa | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Ochoa in 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 November 1981 Guadalajara, Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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]
- ^ Shapiro, Leonard (27 April 2007). "Say Hello to the Ochoa Era". The Washington Post. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
- ^ Lane, Harper (15 September 2010). "5 Great Hispanic Golfers". Man Made. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ^ Ceballos, Juan Ignacio (16 June 2011). "La familia Ochoa, del golf al tenis". ESPN Deportes (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ^ "Love III gets Hall of Fame call: Woosnam, Mallon, Ochoa, Longhurst also included in Class of 2017". PGA Tour. 18 October 2016.