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Morgan Pressel 
Pressel at the 2009 LPGA ChampionshipPersonal information Full name Morgan Pressel Born May 23, 1988
Tampa, Florida, U.S.Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) Nationality 
United StatesResidence Boca Raton, Florida Career Turned professional 2005 Current tour(s) LPGA Tour
(joined 2006)Professional wins 4 Number of wins by tour LPGA Tour 2 LPGA of Japan Tour 1 Other 1 Best results in LPGA Major Championships
(Wins: 1)Kraft Nabisco C'ship Won: 2007 LPGA Championship 2nd: 2011 U.S. Women's Open T2: 2005 Women's British Open 8th: 2010 Achievements and awards AJGA Player of the Year 2005 AJGA Nancy Lopez Award 2006 Morgan Pressel (born May 23, 1988) is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the LPGA Tour. She turned pro at age 17 and is the youngest-ever winner of a modern LPGA major championship. Pressel has reached as high as fourth in the world rankings.
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Childhood and family life
Pressel was born in Tampa, Florida, to Mike Pressel and Kathy Krickstein Pressel. She attended Banyan Creek Elementary School, Omni Middle School, and graduated in 2006 from the Saint Andrew's School in Boca Raton, a private school affiliated with the Episcopal Church.[1] She has stated that her Jewish faith plays a large role in her life.[2]
Following her mother's death from breast cancer in September 2003, 15-year-old Pressel moved in with her grandparents Evelyn Krickstein and Dr. Herb Krickstein, a retired physician and pathologist who is her coach as well as her grandfather, while her two younger siblings stayed with their father. Pressel continues to live with her grandparents, who are the parents of former top-10 tennis player Aaron Krickstein, Pressel's uncle.[3] For the eldest Krickstein, this is the second time he has groomed a young athlete into a star. Aaron Krickstein holds the record for being the youngest player ever to win a men's professional tournament, in Tel Aviv in 1983.
Pressel's younger sister Madison plays golf for the University of Texas.
Amateur career
In 2001, as a 12-year-old, she became the youngest player to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open. This record stood until 2007, when Alexis Thompson, another 12-year-old, beat the record by several months.
In 2005, at the age of 17, she was one of three co-leaders starting the final round of the U.S. Women's Open at Cherry Hills in suburban Denver. Pressel was tied for first on the 18th fairway when Birdie Kim holed out from the bunker just ahead to secure a one-stroke lead. Pressel then needed a birdie to tie, but made a bogey on the 18th to lose by two strokes. Her second-place finish gave her a share of the low amateur honors with Brittany Lang. Pressel played in a total of seven LPGA events in 2005 and made the cut in all of them, with an impressive scoring average of 70.96 in 28 rounds.[4]
In 2005, Pressel won the North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst, and the most important amateur event, the U.S. Women's Amateur. Pressel also finished her amateur career as 2005 Girls American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Junior Player of the Year.
During her amateur career, she won 11 AJGA titles, including all five AJGA Invitationals: the "AJGA Slam".[5]
- 2002 round of 16, U.S. Girls' Junior
- 2002 Junior Solheim Cup Team
- 2004 quarterfinalist, U.S. Women's Amateur
- 2004 quarterfinalist, round of 16, U.S. Girls' Junior
- 2004 Won – North and South Women's Amateur
- 2005 Won – U.S. Women's Amateur
- 2005 2nd place – North and South Amateur
- 2005 Girls AJGA Junior Player of the Year
- 2005 round of 16, U.S. Girls' Junior
- 2005 Junior Solheim Cup Team
Professional career
Pressel at the 2008 LPGA Championship
Pressel finished sixth in the first stage of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament in September 2005 and advanced to the final stage in December.[6] She turned professional in November, after appealing to the LPGA to become a member as a 17-year-old. LPGA rules state that members must be 18 years old.[1] At the five-round Final Qualifying Tournament in Daytona Beach, she finished tied for sixth to earn her tour card for 2006.[7] She played part-time on the tour until her high school graduation in May 2006.
Pressel earned her first victory in 2007 at the Kraft Nabisco Championship and became the youngest-ever winner of a modern LPGA major at 18 years, 313 days.[8] On her flight home to Florida after her win, Pressel had her golf clubs stolen.[9]
Pressel made her first hole-in-one as a professional golfer on July 15, 2007, at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio. It was a 152-yard (139 m) par 3 – hole 6 for the tournament. It was not enough to win, though; Se Ri Pak won the event for the fifth time.
Pressel qualified for the 2007,2009,and 2011 Solheim Cup teams; earning a spot on the 2007 team in her second full-year on the LPGA Tour as a 19-year-old. Through 2011, she is undefeated (3-0-0) in Solheim Cup singles play.
She is represented by Wasserman Media Group and has endorsement deals with Callaway Golf, Polo Ralph Lauren, Royal Bank of Canada, and Audemars Piguet.
Professional wins (4)
LPGA Tour (2)
No. Date Tournament Winning
scoreTo par Margin of
victoryRunner(s)-up Winner's
share ($)1 Apr 1, 2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship 74–72–70–69=285 -3 1 stroke 
Catriona Matthew
Brittany Lincicome
Suzann Pettersen300,000 2 Oct 19, 2008 Kapalua LPGA Classic 72–72–67–69=280 -8 1 stroke Suzann Pettersen225,000 LPGA majors are shown in bold.
Other wins (2)
- 2007 (1) Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Natalie Gulbis and Cristie Kerr), unofficial event
- 2010 (1) World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup (LPGA of Japan Tour)
Major championships
Wins (1)
No. Year Championship Winning Score Margin
of victoryRunner(s)-up 1 2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship −3 (74–72–70–69=285) 1 stroke Brittany Lincicome, Catriona Matthew,
Suzann PettersenResults timeline
Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP T19 T13 1 T38 T40 LPGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP 69 14 T6 CUT U.S. Women's Open CUT DNP 52 DNP T2 TLA T28 T10 T17 T13 Women's British Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T56 CUT CUT T42 Tournament 2010 2011 Kraft Nabisco Championship T19 T3 LPGA Championship T7 2 U.S. Women's Open T34 T21 Women's British Open 8 T49 LA = Low Amateur
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.LPGA Tour career summary
Year Tournaments
playedCuts
madeWins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finishEarnings
($)Money
list rankScoring
averageScoring
rank2001 1 0 0 0 0 0 CUT n/a 77.00 2003 1 1 0 0 0 0 52 n/a 76.00 2005 7 7 0 1 0 2 T2 n/a 70.96 2006 23 21 0 0 1 9 3 465,685 24 71.51 20 2007 25 23 1 1 3 8 1 972,452 9 71.34 6 2008 26 21 1 1 0 5 1 711,261 24 72.04 42 2009 24 21 0 2 0 3 5 630,313 22 71.38 29 2010 23 22 0 1 0 7 T2 767,455 13 71.05 11 2011 22 20 0 1 1 7 2 845,466 13 71.34 14 - official as of November 20, 2011 [10]
Team appearances
Amateur
- Junior Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2002 (winners) and 2005 (winners)
Professional
- Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2007 (winners), 2009 (winners), 2011
Solheim Cup record
Year Total
MatchesTotal
W-L-HSingles
W-L-HFoursomes
W-L-HFourballs
W-L-HPoints
WonPoints
%Career 11 7–2–2 3–0–0 2–1–0 2–1–2 8.0 72.7 2007 4 1–2–1 1–0–0 def. A. Sörenstam 2&1 0–1–0 lost w/ N. Gulbis 3&2 0–1–1 halved w/ P. Creamer,
lost w/ C. Kerr 3&21.5 37.5 2009 3 2–0–1 1–0–0 def. A. Nordqvist 3&2 1–0–0 won w/ K. McPherson 2 up 0–0–1 halved w/ M. Wie 2.5 83.3 2011 4 4–0–0 1–0–0 def. A. Nordqvist 2&1 1–0–0 won w/ R. O'Toole 3&2 2–0–0 won w/ P. Creamer 1 up,
won w/ C. Kerr 1 up4.0 100. See also
References
- ^ a b Rosaforte, Tim (February 3, 2006). "Continuing Education". Golf World. ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/columns/story?columnist=rosaforte_tim&id=2329811. Retrieved October 21, 2008.
- ^ Pessah, Jon (March 16, 2007). "They Punch, Putt, Dribble, Tackle and Skate And They're All Jewish". Baltimore Jewish Times. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070930015711/http://www.jewishtimes.com/scripts/edition.pl?now=3/22/2007&stay=1&SubSectionID=48&ID=3097. Retrieved July 14, 2009.
- ^ Minor, Emily (August 14, 2005). "Her mother's daughter". Palm Beach Post. Archived from the original on December 23, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20061223042443/http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/content/accent/epaper/2005/08/14/a1d_pressel_web_0814.html. Retrieved April 2, 2007.
- ^ Yahoo Sports – golf - Morgan Pressel – 2005 season results – accessed 2011-07-15
- ^ American Junior Golf Association (October 26, 2005). "Morgan Pressel Named Girls Rolex Junior Player of the Year". AJGA.com. http://www.ajga.org/Media_Center/CoverStories/04_Stories/10-26-05.asp. Retrieved April 2, 2007.
- ^ LPGA.com - 2005 Sectional Qualifying Tournament – results - 2005-09-23
- ^ LPGA.com - 2005 Final Qualifying Tournament - results - 2005-12-04
- ^ "LPGA All-Time Scoring Records". LPGA.com. http://lpga.com/content/Alltimerecords.pdf. Retrieved January 19, 2008.
- ^ "Pressel learns to deal with LPGA success". Cox News Services. http://www.oxfordpress.com/sports/content/shared/sports/stories/2007/04/GLF_PRESSEL_0411_COX.html. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ "2011 Player Performance Record". LPGA. http://www.lpga.com/greensheet.aspx?pid=5431&year=2011. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
External links
- Morgan Pressel at the LPGA Tour official site
- Morgan's Yahoo Group
- Newslib.com feed of articles about Morgan Pressel
- MorganPressel.org
- Swing Sequence
- South Florida Sun-Sentinel - photo gallery: Morgan Pressel through the years
Dinah Shore/Kraft Nabisco Championship champions 1983 Amy Alcott · 1984 Juli Inkster† · 1985 Alice Miller · 1986‡ Pat Bradley · 1987‡ Betsy King · 1988 Amy Alcott · 1989‡ Juli Inkster · 1990 Betsy King† · 1991‡ Amy Alcott · 1992 Dottie Mochrie† · 1993 Helen Alfredsson · 1994 Donna Andrews · 1995 Nanci Bowen · 1996 Patty Sheehan · 1997 Betsy King · 1998‡ Pat Hurst · 1999 Dottie Pepper · 2000‡ Karrie Webb · 2001 Annika Sörenstam · 2002 Annika Sörenstam · 2003 Patricia Meunier-Lebouc · 2004 Grace Park · 2005 Annika Sörenstam · 2006 Karrie Webb† · 2007 Morgan Pressel · 2008 Lorena Ochoa · 2009 Brittany Lincicome · 2010 Yani Tseng · 2011 Stacy Lewis
† event won in a playoff ‡ event won wire-to-wireUnited States Solheim Cup team – 2007 Nicole Castrale • Paula Creamer • Laura Diaz • Natalie Gulbis • Pat Hurst • Juli Inkster • Cristie Kerr • Brittany Lincicome • Stacy Prammanasudh • Morgan Pressel • Angela Stanford • Sherri Steinhauer
Beth Daniel (non-playing assistant captain) • Betsy King (non-playing captain)
Won: 16 – 12
United States Solheim Cup team – 2009 Nicole Castrale • Paula Creamer • Natalie Gulbis • Juli Inkster • Cristie Kerr • Christina Kim • Brittany Lang • Brittany Lincicome • Kristy McPherson • Morgan Pressel • Angela Stanford • Michelle Wie
Beth Daniel (non-playing captain) • Meg Mallon (non-playing assistant captain) • Kelly Robbins (non-playing assistant captain)
Won: 16 – 12United States Solheim Cup team – 2011 Paula Creamer • Vicky Hurst • Juli Inkster • Cristie Kerr • Christina Kim • Brittany Lang • Stacy Lewis • Brittany Lincicome • Ryann O'Toole • Morgan Pressel • Angela Stanford • Michelle Wie
Rosie Jones (non-playing captain) • Juli Inkster (playing assistant captain) • Sherri Steinhauer (non-playing assistant captain)
Lost: 13–15Categories:- American female golfers
- LPGA Tour golfers
- Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships
- Winners of LPGA major golf championships
- Jewish American sportspeople
- Jewish golfers
- People from Tampa, Florida
- People from Boca Raton, Florida
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Solheim Cup competitors for the United States
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