Live from the committee room at West Byfleet where ‘the Dame’ learnt to play much of her golf in her teenage years, we sit down to talk about Laura’s career in the game.
A few highlights from a career that spans over 40 years of playing golf at the highest level:
- 87 professional wins worldwide (including 20 on the LPGA & 4 majors)
- 7x order of merits in a period that spans 3 separate decades
- Turning pro in 1985, she won ‘rookie of the year’, won The British Open in 1986, and the US Women’s Open – her maiden major – in 1987
- In 1988 she became the first woman to win on all three major tours in the same calendar year.
- Even more remarkably, in 1994 she became the first golfer (male or female) to win on FIVE DIFFERENT professional tours around the world in the same calendar year (Japan, Australia, the Asian Tour, the LPGA and the LET)
- Laura is the all-time point scorer in the Solheim Cup, and played for the European side since the events inception in 1990, right through until 2011
- Awarded an MBE in 1988, and CBE in 2000 prior to being made a Dame in 2014.
- Laura was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015.
