Karrie Webb Biography - Good Teachers, Lpga Career, Chronology, A Victory And A Loss On The Same Day
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Australian golf star Karrie (pronounced "kahr-rie," rhymes with "starry") Webb has been fighting Annika Sorenstam for the title of the best female golfer in the world since Webb joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour in 1995. Webb, who was only 20 when she joined the tour, has been compared repeatedly to Tiger Woods, since both are young phenoms—with excellent records of wins—who regularly outplay most of the veterans on their respective tours.
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Webb was drawn to the sport of golf at a very young age. Her parents and maternal grandparents were golfers, and by age four Webb, with her toy club, was following them on the links around their hometown of Ayr, Australia. "They were about the only two people in the world who were patient enough to go out with a four-year-old and play golf on a Sunday morning," Webb later said of her…
Webb turned professional two months before her twentieth birthday and then spent a year playing professional golf in Europe and on the Futures Tour in the United States. In 1995 she won the Weetabix Women's British Open while still on the Women Professional Golfers' European Tour. That year Webb qualified for the LPGA Tour, on her first try, by finishing second at the LPGA qualifying…
A month later, Webb became only the fifth woman in history to win the career Grand Slam when she won the McDonald's LPGA Championship at the DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware. At 26, she was also the youngest woman to achieve this feat. The achievement, however, was bittersweet for her: her maternal grandfather, Mick Collinson, had suffered a stroke back in Australia, and Webb rev…
Throughout much of her early career, Webb was reticent to speak openly to reporters or to create much of a public personality at all, particularly after the press wrote some speculative articles about her personal life after her breakup with Todd Haller. She is notorious for rarely removing her sunglasses, for example. Yet Webb and her friends have always insisted that she is a warm person in priv…
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