Lorena Ochoa

Lorena Ochoa is a 26 year old professional Mexican golfer, and as formerly the top ranked female golfer in the world became the most successful Mexican golfer in history. She turned professional in 2002, having grown up playing golf on a country club from a very young age. As a junior, she toured throughout Mexico easily cleaning up tournaments. She has 22 victories before she turned professional, far more than any other Mexican female golfer.

She attended the University of Arizona on a full golf scholarship for two years, where she competed in the NCAA rather successfully. She won the PAC-10 newcomer of the year in 2001 along with the women's golf championships. By her second year in the NCAA, she had won 8 out of the 10 tournaments that he entered, setting a record in the NCAA for most victories in a row along with the highest score average in history with 71.33. In November 2001, President Vincente Fox awarded her with the Mexican National Sports Award, making her the youngest recipient in the country's history.

In the 2002 season after she left college, she won three events in the Futures Tour out of the ten that she entered. In her first year with the LPGA, she performed remarkably, placing in the top ten eight times. In 2006 she was awarded the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. In 2007, she started to fulfill some of her obviously great potential by winning at the Old Course at St. Andrews in the Women's British Open. She also won the Kraft Nabisco Championship in 2008.