Lorena Ochoa's Thread

[Chiwas]

Lorena Ochoa is the first Mexican woman playing in the LPGA. She's 21 years old I think, and won some 8 out of 10 amateur tournaments when college a year ago, marking a national record in the US.

I think also won most of tournaments in the futurity tour last year gaining the right to play in the LPGA tour.

This is her first tournament (she played one or two last year invitated) as a regular LPGA player:

ANZ Ladies Masters
Final Results
February 22, 2003


1 203(-13) Laura Davies (ENG) 67 68 68 73264.21 73264.21

2= 204(-12) Rebecca Stevenson (AUS) 68 68 68 41516.38 41516.38
Karrie Webb (AUS) 68 66 70 41516.38 41516.38

4 205(-11) Lorena Ochoa (MEX) 69 68 68 24421.41 24421.41

5= 206(-10) Iben Tinning (DEN) 72 68 66 18193.94 18193.94
Rachel Teske (AUS) 71 68 67 18193.94 18193.94

7 207( -9) Gina Scott (NZ) 70 73 64 14652.84 14652.84

[Chiwas]

If there were golf rounds as often as basketball games, I'd change Nájera for Lorena easily. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[Chiwas]

Easy, easy!, guys.

[LRB]

So Lorena makes your putter flutter Chiwas? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[Chiwas]

<< So Lorena makes your putter flutter Chiwas? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] >>

Definite. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

[Chiwas]

Lorena Ochoa - At A Glance

Career Scoring Average: 70.73
2000-01: 71.33, set an NCAA record for single season scoring average
2001-02: 70.13, set a new NCAA record for single season scoring average

Tournaments Won (12):

2000-01 (4)
Comcast Dick McGuire Invitational Sept. 21-23, 2000
Golf World Invitational Nov. 3-5, 2000
Wildcat Invitational Feb. 19-21, 2001
2001 Pac-10 Championships April 23-25, 2001

2001-02 (8)
NCAA Fall Preview Sept. 24-26, 2001
Oregon State Invitational Oct. 8-10, 2001
Hawaii Fall Invitational Oct. 30-31, 2001
Auburn Tiger-Derby Invitational Nov. 9-11, 2001
TRW Regional Challenge Feb. 11-13, 2002
Wildcat Invitational Feb. 25-26, 2002
PING/ASU Invitational April 5-7, 2002
NCAA West Regional May 9-11

Honors, Awards and Accolades
El Premio Nacional de Deportes - winner 2001
NGCA Player of the Year - 2001, 2002
NGCA Freshman of the Year - 2001
NGCA First-Team All-American - 2001, 2002
Golfstat Cup for nation's lowest scoring average - 2000-01 (71.33), 2001-02 (70.13)
Honda Award for Women's Golf - finalist 2001
Pacific-10 Conference Freshman/Newcomer of the Year - 2001
All-Pac-10 Conference First Team - 2001, 2002
Rolex College Golfer of the Month - February 2001, November 2000, September 2000

Notes
- In 60 rounds of collegiate golf, Ochoa was at par or better in 47 rounds.
- Ochoa stands third on an unofficial ranking of most individual tournament titles won all-time.
- Ochoa is now the most accomplished golfer in Arizona history, male or female, winning 12 tournaments to eclipse former Wildcat greats Annika Sorenstam, Marisa Baena and Jenna Daniels.
- Ochoa competed in five LPGA events as an amateur while at Arizona and finished in the top 10 three times, including a tie for fifth at the 2002 Welch's/Circle K Championship in Tucson.
- Ochoa holds the Arizona record for low 54-hole total with a 10-under-par 206 at the 2001 Oregon State Invitational.
- Ochoa finished first or second in all but two tournaments of her collegiate career. She tied for ninth in her Arizona debut and tied for third in April 2001.

[Chiwas]

Career.

Year Events Best Finish Top 10 Cuts Made Earnings (Rank) Average Score (Rank)

*2002*...10.......1st.............8..........10... .....$53,702.......(1)........69.27.........(1)

[Chiwas]

Lorena Ochoa, Jack Nicklaus, and David Duval.

[Usually Lurkin]

uh. . David Duval seems to be checking out her fairways, if you know what I mean.

[Chiwas]

<< uh. . David Duval seems to be checking out her fairways, if you know what I mean. >>

Ohhhhh, yeahhh!

[Chiwas]

Again in the top 3 in the Australian Open. Second round. Es buena la chaparrita.



DAVIES PROVIDES ANOTHER GRANDSTAND FINISH

Sydney, Australia February 28 2003 -- England's Laura Davies provided the large galleries at Terrey Hills GC with another grandstand finish to snatch the halfway lead at the $Aus500,000 AAMI Australian Women's Open.

The 39-year-old from Byfleet in Surrey, who finished her first round with a birdie and an eagle, closed on Friday with consecutive birdies for a second round 68 to add to her course record 65 for an 11 under par total.

Davies takes a one shot lead over Australian rookie Rebecca Coakley, who mirrored her opening five under par 67.

But defending champion Karrie Webb from Australia is back in the fray after shooting an impressive 67, declaring it was the worst she could have scored on a benign day, having not capitalised with her putter.

Webb shares third place on eight under alongside Beth Bauer from America, last year's LPGA rookie of the year, who had a 66 to add to her first round 70 and <u>Mexican Lorena Ochoa</u> who had a 69.

[Chiwas]

7th [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

1 277(-11) Mhairi McKay (SCO)
2 278(-10) Laura Davies (ENG)
3 279( -9) Rachel Teske (AUS)
4= 281( -7) Samantha Head (ENG)
Marnie McGuire (NZ)
6 282( -6) Rebecca Coakley (AUS)
7= 283( -5) Catriona Matthew (SCO)
Suzann Pettersen (NOR)
Alison Nicholas (ENG)
Patricia Meunier Lebouc (FRA)
Beth Bauer (USA)
Lorena Ochoa (MEX) 67 69 75 72 ($7,000 USD, not even for the caddie)
Iben Tinning (DEN)

[Chiwas]

Let's get out of veruca's land! Two consecutive tournaments in the kangaroos' country is too much.

[Chiwas]

Lorena Ochoa, Mexico - Ochoa carries the anticipation and hopes of Mexico in every swing she takes.

The eight-time national champion has been dubbed the next Nancy Lopez, and so far she has demonstrated the game to back up such a challenging comparison.

Ochoa is exempt for 2003 after finishing first on the 2002 Futures Tour money list, where she won three events. In LPGA competition, she tied for fifth at the 2002 Welch's/Circle K Championship after receiving a sponsor exemption.

Additionally, she finished eighth at the 2002 Kraft Nabisco Championship, one of the LPGA's four majors. While at the University of Arizona, she was a two-time NCAA Player of the Year and won eight of 10 events her sophomore year.

Ochoa likes to spend her free time reading and water skiing, and dating chiwas.

[Chiwas]

[LRB]

Chiwas Lorena sucks!!!

The question for you is now to find out what? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[Chiwas]

<< Chiwas Lorena sucks!!!

The question for you is now to find out what? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] >>

Please, LRB, this is the lonely island for Lorena and me. Get away! (yes, she sucks)

[Chiwas]

(ch&iacute;n...they changed my pic)

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Different folks, but same UA stroke

By Shane Bacon
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Tuesday March 11, 2003

Ochoa looking to duplicate success of former UA great and LPGA star Annika Sorenstam

Lorena Ochoa has never had a problem with challenges. With only seven golf courses in all of Guadalajara, Mexico, getting a tee time wasn’t exactly easy for Ochoa. But after joining a country club at the age of five, she played every chance she got.

After she became a local prodigy, Ochoa decided to start playing golf at UA, and it didn’t take long for people to start learning who the 5-foot-6 powerhouse was. It took even less time for her to make her first mark on college golf. After a ninth-place finish in her first-ever event as a Wildcat, Ochoa won the Comcast/Dick McGuire Invitational and never looked back.

So would Lorena consider following in former UA golfer Annika Sorenstam’s footsteps and become the second women golfer to play in a PGA tour event since 1945?

“I would play in a PGA tour event in a second,” Ochoa said. “I was asked to play in a (men’s) tournament in Mexico. I couldn’t because of conflicting dates, but I would love to do it sometime.”

Ochoa said she has only respect for Sorenstam, also a former Wildcat, while praising her decision to break the gender barriers and play in this year’s MasterCard Colonial tournament.

“Annika’s move is surprising, but it’s something great for her,” Ochoa said. “She has nothing to prove to anyone, and in my opinion I think (her decision) is great.”

Saying Ochoa’s collegiate record was good would be like calling Lebron James a mediocre high school basketball player.

Ochoa lit up the college circuit like Vegas on a fight night, and filed one of the most impressive college careers in the history of NCAA golf in just two seasons. Ochoa won NCAA Player of the Year both years she played at Arizona, tallying 12 collegiate victories — eight of which came in just 10 events during her final season at UA.

While worrying about class and her other teammates, Ochoa also finished in a tie for seventh at the Welch’s/Circle K Championship, the LPGA event in Tucson, as an amateur. A year later, with the Welch’s/Fry’s Championship beginning Thursday, this Wildcat just keeps on keeping on.

After finishing the year on the Future’s Tour at the top of the money list — after three victories in the JWA/Michelob Light Futures Charity Golf Classic — the Anne Arbor Futures Classic and the Betty Puskar Futures Golf Classic, Ochoa has a full exemption onto the LPGA tour this year and plans to take full advantage of it.

“It would be great to win a tournament in my first year,” said Ochoa, who was honored at halftime on Thursday at the Oregon State game. “I think that if I start out strong, I can win rookie of the year and finish in the Top-10 on the money list. Those are both goals I have been concentrating on.”

With the tournament in Tucson this week, Ochoa has a chance to start the year with an impressive showing in what could be considered her hometown event.

“It would be a dream to win this week,” Ochoa said. “This (tournament) is something very special to me because I’ve played this tournament two years before, and people will support me very much because this is like my home.”

Even her college coach thinks his former star golfer has a shot to win against players who are not only older but more experienced. “I think she has a good chance to win,” head coach Greg Allen said. “Being it’s her first LPGA tournament, there will be a lot of pressure. But (Lorena) loves pressure and with all the talent and skill she possesses, success just comes easy to her.”

The pressure shouldn’t be anything Lorena can’t handle. This past fall, Ochoa competed in a best ball tournament that included Sorenstam, British Open champion David Duval and someone most golfers like to call the greatest of all time: Jack Nicklaus.

“Duval and I played together and ended up winning 1-up against those two,” Ochoa said.

And playing with the pros didn’t even faze her.

“I played the best out of the four,” Ochoa said. “I shot 6-under, with seven birdies and one bogey.”

With the experience shown by this young gun and the talent she carries, expectations this week will weigh a lot more than any bag this hopeful has ever carried.

[Chiwas]

NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Honeymoon is getting over, Lorena. Next time you better be within the first 5 or else.

[LRB]

Chiwas I don't know if I'd be so fast to kick Lorena out of bed for eating crackers much less finishing less than 5th. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[LRB]

Double Post.

[Chiwas]

<< Double Post. >>

Are you double-posting with my Lorena? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

[Chiwas]

When do we play again, my lady?

[Chiwas]

Lorena Ochoa: off and running in cyberspace



Lorena Ochoa is off and running…both on the golf course and in cyberspace. This 21-year-old rookie, which some tout as the next &quot;superstar,&quot; has launched her own web site at www.lorenaochoa.com.



If you visit Ochoa's web site, you can read about her deep seeded desire to win and perform well, not only for herself, but for her home country of Mexico. She's an icon and a role model down there and she gladly accepts the responsibiity that comes with both.



You can also read about her highly successful collegiate career, which included 12 victories in two years while at the University of Arizona, and her brief, but successful, Futures Tour career, which led to her exempt status on the LPGA Tour for 2003. In addition, you can read about her impressive list of corporate sponsorships that include Nike and Audi.



Ochoa's on-line fans will get the chance to peruse articles about this talented young player that has the media drawing parallels between her career and the likes of Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam. And coming soon to the site will be a photo gallery and fan forum area.

It might be a little too early to tell if Lorena will be the LPGA Tour's next superstar, or if her career will blossom into that of Nancy Lopez - but what is clear is that she has people talking! And for people interested in following her progress in 2003, she now has a place to for them to come together in cyberspace.



WWW.LORENAOCHOA.COM

[Chiwas]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!

T53 Lorena Ochoa +1 9 E 71 71

[Chiwas]

Getting better.
T32 Lorena Ochoa -1 17 -2 71 71

[Chiwas]

Third day. She just made the best score of all players in the 18 holes, counting the three days of the tournament so far. This kid is going to be a super-star.



Edit: I found another 64.

[Chiwas]

[Chiwas]

6th place. Not bad.

Se Ri Pak -23 F
Grace Park -22 F
Patricia Meunier-Lebouc -19 F
Hee-Won Han -19 F
Annika Sorenstam -19 F
Lorena Ochoa -17 F
Beth Daniel -16 F
Dorothy Delasin -15 F
Michele Redman -14 F
Cristie Kerr -14 F

[Chiwas]

Don't worry, Lorena, it's not a scientific poll. We are going to win this one.

[Chiwas]

First day. Tough course.

[Chiwas]

Second round. We're close.

[Chiwas]

All right! We are on for this tournament. Keep it going.

(Third round, through 6th)

[Chiwas]

Don't ask how she finished the third round [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]