In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ochoa and the second or maternal family name is Reyes.
Lorena Ochoa
Ochoa in 2008
Personal information
Born
(1981-11-15) 15 November 1981 (age 42) 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
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:[loˈɾenaoˈtʃoa]ⓘ; 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.
LorenaOchoa Reyes (Spanish: [loˈɾena oˈtʃoa] ; born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican former professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour...
Golf México The LorenaOchoa Invitational was a women's professional golf tournament in México on the LPGA Tour. Hosted by LorenaOchoa, the event debuted...
the first round and finished tied for 27th, 12 strokes behind winner, LorenaOchoa. In 2010, Thompson kept her amateur status for the first half of the...
A statue of former Mexican professional golfer LorenaOchoa was installed in Puerto Vallarta, in 2012. In 2015, the bronze sculpture was removed from Centro...
prize money on the LPGA Tour was $54.285 million, the highest to date. LorenaOchoa topped the money list with a record $4,364,994, easily surpassing Annika...
hole, and then birdied the same hole in a sudden-death playoff to beat LorenaOchoa and win her second Kraft Nabisco Championship. She won four other tournaments...
Tiger Woods has won 6 of these championships. Past girls' champions include Amy Alcott, Brandie Burton, LorenaOchoa, and Jennifer Rosales. Official site...
straight wins in four starts made her the first player to do so since LorenaOchoa in 2008. She continued her incredible start to the year with a fifth...
15, 2009, Wie won her first professional individual tournament, the LorenaOchoa Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico, an event on the LPGA Tour limited...
highest in the history of the tour until 2016. LorenaOchoa topped the money list, earning $2,763,193. Ochoa also led the league in most wins with six, including...
Hannah Green, Cristie Kerr, Christina Kim, Nelly Korda, Mo Martin, LorenaOchoa, Grace Park, Inbee Park, Stacy Prammanasudh, Sherri Steinhauer, and Karrie...
Shin took Rookie of the Year honors. Shin and LorenaOchoa each won three tournaments during the season. Ochoa also won the Player of the Year trophy for...
consecutive for Park, a feat last accomplished on the LPGA Tour in 2008 by LorenaOchoa when she won four consecutive tournaments. The victory was also her sixth...
exceeded US$50 million for the first time in the history of the LPGA Tour. LorenaOchoa became the first Mexican to top the money list on the LPGA Tour, or any...
Classic in a six-hole playoff over future LPGA Tour star LorenaOchoa. Kim was second to Ochoa on the money list and both earned LPGA Tour cards for 2003...
through 2009 the title sponsor of the tournament was Mexican beer Corona. LorenaOchoa of Mexico won the event three times: 2006, 2008, and 2009. The 2011 tournament...
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Semple Thompson 2012 Hollis Stacy 2015 Laura Davies 2017 Meg Mallon 2017 LorenaOchoa 2019 Peggy Kirk Bell 2019 Jan Stephenson 2021 Marion Hollins 2021 Susie...
the season. She had back-to-back top-10 finishes at the Citibanamex LorenaOchoa Match Play and Kingsmill Championship where she ended T-9 and T-10, respectively...
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