LAURA DAVIES CBE
Country England
Born 5/10/1963 - Coventry
Exempt Status Honorary Life Member
Turned Professional 1985
Joined Tour 1985
Career Victories (Last) 71 (2008)
Career Best Finish on LET 37 wins
Other wins 34 victories worldwide
Major championships 4
Career Holes-In-One LET 2
Career Earnings LET (Euro) 3,420,545.02
Tournaments Played 243
Top Ten Finishes 80
Lowest Round 63 (2 times)
AMATEUR Winning margin of 16 strokes new Tour record. Total of 199
Curtis Cup 1984. South Eastern Champion 1983, 1984. after three rounds set new Tour record for 54 holes. Won
English Intermediate Champion 1983. Welsh Open 1995 Wilkinson Sword English Open for Tour record 22nd
Champion 1984. victory. 1994 & 1996 ranked number one on the PING
PROFESSIONAL Leaderboard. Won the 1994 LPGA money list. Victory in
2008 Highlights the 1994 McDonald’s LPGA Championship gave her a
Laura successfully defended her Austrian title, the UNIQA second major title. Won Association of Golf Writers’ Trophy
Ladies Golf Open, at Golf Club Fohrenwald in Wiener 1994. 1994 and 1996 won Golf Writers’ Association of
Neustadt in September, taking her tally of LET victories to America LPGA Player of the Year Award. Was ranked
37. She posted rounds of 71, 67, 67 and 68 to finish on number one on the PING leaderboard in 1996. Won
15-under-par 273, three strokes ahead of compatriot Lisa Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year award and Golf
Hall. Elsewhere, she won the New South Wales Open in Writers Association of America LPGA Player of the Year
Sydney, Australia, in January and added the Lalla Award in 1996. In 1994 was first golfer, man or woman, to
Meryem Cup, the women’s edition of the Hassan II Golf win on five different Tours in one calendar year.
Trophy, in Rabat, Morocco, in November. She played in In 1999 became the first player to win £1 million on
13 events on the LET with five further top ten finishes: the LET. Also finished top of the Order of Merit for a
3rd at the Dubai Ladies Masters, 5th at the Deutsche record fifth time. 2000 partnered Trish Johnson to
Bank Ladies Swiss Open and T5th at the Nykredit second place behind Sweden in the inaugural TSN
Masters, 8th at the ANZ Ladies Masters and T10th at Ladies World Cup Golf, where she finished with the
the Goteborg Masters in Sweden. It was a disappointing lowest individual aggregate. Represented the victorious
year on the LPGA Tour for Laura, who played in 19 European team for the sixth consecutive time in The
events. Her best finish all year was T9th at the Safeway Solheim Cup 2000 at Loch Lomond.
International Presented by Coca-Cola and she was 95th Won twice on the 2000 LPGA Tour. Recognised
on the money list with earnings of US$112,914. during the LPGA's 50th Anniversary in 2000 as one of
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS the LPGA's top 50 players. Won in Europe for the first
1985 Rookie of the Year and Order of Merit winner. time in two years when she beat Scotland’s Janice
Victory in Belgian Open. Retained Order of Merit in 1986 Moodie by 5&4 in the inaugural WPGA International
after four victories including British Women’s Open. Also Matchplay at Gleneagles Monarch’s course. Won once
won Greater Manchester Tournament at Haigh Hall with on the LPGA Tour at the Rochester International and
20-under-par winning score to equal world record set finished her season with a win in Japan.
by Nancy Lopez. Equalled same score in 1994 Alpine Won P4 Norwegian Masters in a playoff with Spain’s
Australian Masters. Won 1987 US Women’s Open. Ana Larraneta, making it at least one win in each season
For six memorable days Laura was holder of both the of her career. Won two points in The Solheim Cup and
US and British Open titles. admitted to playing the best shot of her life, a driver from
Won three European tournaments in 1988, two LPGA a hanging lie in the rough from 287 yards to ten feet! Set
events and one in Japan. Equalled her own record low new record of 16 points won in The Solheim Cup,
score with round of 63 when winning 1990 AGF Biarritz surpassing her previous record she shared with the
Open. Equalled LPGA record low score with round of 62 in USA’s Dottie Pepper.
1991 Rail Charity Golf Classic. Won three points out of Won her 65th event of her career at the ANZ Masters
three in Europe’s Solheim Cup victory over the United and helped Europe to an historic victory in The Solheim
States at Dalmahoy in 1992. Represented England in Cup at Barsebäck in Sweden. Represented England in
Sunrise Cup World Team Championship, Taiwan, 1992. the 2005 Women’s World Cup of Golf with Karen
Won 1992 Order of Merit for record third time. Elected Stupples. Played in her ninth Solheim Cup at Crooked
honorary member WPGET (1993) for services to Tour. Stick GC, Indiana and became the only player to have
Established new world record with 25-under-par 267 in competed in every edition of the biennial transatlantic
1995 Guardian Holidays Irish Open at St Margaret’s. tournament. With 201⁄2 points, she became the second
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