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Angela Stanford

Angela Gwen Stanford (born November 28, 1977) is an American professional golfer who currently competes on the LPGA Tour.[2][3]

Angela Stanford
Stanford in August 2009
Personal information
Full nameAngela Gwen Stanford[1]
Born (1977-11-28) November 28, 1977 (age 46)
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Sporting nationality United States
ResidenceSaginaw, Texas, U.S.
Career
CollegeTexas Christian University
(graduated 2000)
Turned professional2000
Current tour(s)LPGA Tour (joined 2001)
Former tour(s)Futures Tour (joined 2000)
Professional wins11
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour7
Epson Tour1
Other3
Best results in LPGA major championships
(wins: 1)
Chevron ChampionshipT3: 2011
Women's PGA C'shipT4: 2004
U.S. Women's OpenT2: 2003
Women's British OpenT5: 2014
Evian ChampionshipWon: 2018

Amateur career

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Born and raised in Saginaw, Texas, Stanford won the Fort Worth Girls Championship four times (1993–1996), the 1996 Texas State 4A High School Championship and the 1996 PING Texas State Junior Championship.[4][5] Following graduation from Boswell High School in 1996, she enrolled at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth. Stanford won nine collegiate tournaments for the Horned Frogs, was a four-time All-American and a four-time All-Western Athletic Conference (WAC) selection. She was named WAC Freshman of the Year in 1997 and WAC Player of the Year in 1999 and won the 2000 WAC Championship.[6] She earned a bachelor's degree in speech communication from TCU in 2000. Stanford was a member of the 2000 U.S. Curtis Cup team and a semifinalist at the 2000 British Ladies Amateur.[7]

Professional career

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Stanford turned professional following the 2000 U.S. Women's Amateur in August and played on the Futures Tour, where she earned a victory at the season-ending event in early October. She finished fourth in the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament that year to earn exempt status on the LPGA Tour for 2001.

Her first victory on the LPGA Tour came in her third season, at the 2003 ShopRite LPGA Classic. A week later Stanford was in a three player 18-hole playoff for the U.S. Women's Open; she lost to Hilary Lunke by one stroke. Her best finish on the LPGA money was in 2008, at ninth place with over $1.1 million.

Stanford has been a member of six U.S. Solheim Cup teams: in 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015, where in the penultimate match, she defeated Suzann Pettersen which cleared the way for Paula Creamer to score the winning point, and gave the U.S. Its first Solheim Cup win since 2009.

On September 16, 2018, Stanford won her first major title at the Evian Championship.

Stanford retired following the 2024 season.[8]

Professional wins (11)

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LPGA Tour wins (7)

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Legend
Major championships (1)
Other LPGA Tour (6)
No. Date Tournament Winning
score 		To par Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up Winner's
share ($)
1 Jun 29, 2003 ShopRite LPGA Classic 65-67-65=197 −16 3 strokes   Becky Morgan 195,000
2 Sep 14, 2008 Bell Micro LPGA Classic 70-67-67-73=277 −11 1 stroke   Shanshan Feng 210,000
3 Nov 16, 2008 Lorena Ochoa Invitational 68-66-72-69=275 −13 1 stroke   Brittany Lang
  Annika Sörenstam 		200,000
4 Feb 14, 2009 SBS Open at Turtle Bay 65-71-70=206 −10 3 strokes   Michelle Wie 180,000
5 Feb 26, 2012 HSBC Women's Champions 66-70-71-71=278 −10 Playoff   Na Yeon Choi
  Shanshan Feng
  Jenny Shin 		210,000
6 Sep 16, 2018 The Evian Championship 72-64-68-68=272 −12 1 stroke   Austin Ernst
  Kim Sei-young
  Mo Martin
  Amy Olson 		577,500
7 Dec 6, 2020 Volunteers of America Classic 71-69-70-67=277 −7 2 strokes   Yealimi Noh
  Inbee Park
  Ryu So-yeon 		262,500

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–4)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 2003 U.S. Women's Open   Hilary Lunke
  Kelly Robbins 		Lunke won 18-hole playoff (Lunke:70, Stanford:71, Robbins:73)
2 2009 P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship   Jiyai Shin
  Sun Young Yoo 		Shin won with birdie on second extra hole
3 2012 HSBC Women's Champions   Na Yeon Choi
  Shanshan Feng
  Jenny Shin 		Won with par on third extra hole
Choi eliminated by par on second hole
Feng eliminated by par on first hole
4 2013 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic   Hee Young Park Lost to birdie on third extra hole
5 2015 Toto Japan Classic   Ahn Sun-ju
  Lee Ji-hee 		Ahn won with birdie on first extra hole

Futures Tour wins (1)

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  • 2000 (1) Summit Consulting SBC Futures Tour Championship

Legends of the LPGA wins (3)

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Major championships

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Wins (1)

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Year Championship 54 holes Winning score Margin Runners-up
2018 The Evian Championship 5 shot deficit −12 (72-64-68-68=272) 1 stroke   Austin Ernst,   Kim Sei-young
  Mo Martin,   Amy Olson

Results timeline

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Results not in chronological order.

Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Chevron Championship T51 CUT T58 CUT T10 T15 T12
Women's PGA Championship CUT T59 T27 T4 T16 T29 T33 T25 T5
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT CUT T2 CUT T10 T49 T16 T58 CUT
Women's British Open ^ T13 T64 CUT CUT T36 CUT CUT T20
Tournament 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Chevron Championship T15 T3 T11 T19 T7 T11 CUT T47 T20 CUT
Women's PGA Championship T25 T30 CUT T28 T30 T41 CUT CUT T63 T66
U.S. Women's Open T19 4 T54 T4 T30 T26 T11 T33 T10 CUT
The Evian Championship ^^ T6 CUT CUT 7 T18 1 CUT
Women's British Open T50 T22 T23 T17 T5 T21 T60 CUT CUT T29
Tournament 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Chevron Championship T64 T40 CUT CUT CUT
U.S. Women's Open CUT CUT CUT CUT
Women's PGA Championship T44 T58 CUT CUT CUT
The Evian Championship ^^ NT CUT CUT T59 T26
Women's British Open T14 CUT T41 T56

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001

^^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

  Win
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Summary

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Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Chevron Championship 0 0 1 1 3 10 22 15
U.S. Women's Open 0 1 0 3 5 8 24 14
Women's PGA Championship 0 0 0 2 2 5 24 17
The Evian Championship 1 0 0 1 3 4 11 6
Women's British Open 0 0 0 1 1 8 22 15
Totals 1 1 1 8 14 35 103 67
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 12 (2009 British Open – 2012 British Open)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2013 Evian – 2014 Kraft Nabisco)

LPGA Tour career summary

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Year Tournaments
played		 Cuts
made*		 Wins 2nd 3rd Top 10s Best
finish		 Earnings
($)		 Money
list rank		 Scoring
average		 Scoring
rank
2001 26 12 0 0 0 0 T15 66,956 98 73.24 103
2002 19 12 0 1 0 2 2 221,857 45 72.37 46
2003 21 17 1 1 0 3 1 643,192 17 71.94 38
2004 24 19 0 0 0 2 T4 297,790 39 71.86 T43
2005 25 15 0 0 1 3 T3 272,288 44 73.11 69
2006 25 20 0 2 0 3 2 473,218 23 71.80 T29
2007 24 21 0 0 2 12 T3 713,880 19 71.62 11
2008 27 23 2 1 2 10 1 1,134,753 9 71.22 9
2009 21 20 1 2 2 11 1 1,081,916 10 70.64 11
2010 22 19 0 1 0 7 2 596,830 18 71.35 19
2011 21 20 0 0 3 9 3 1,017,196 7 71.42 15
2012 26 23 1 2 1 6 1 794,294 16 71.51 21
2013 22 10 0 1 1 6 2 778,234 12 70.71 11
2014 27 20 0 2 0 6 2 754,728 19 71.18 18
2015 27 23 0 1 0 3 T2 491,777 34 71.27 22
2016 26 19 0 1 0 4 T2 488,588 37 71.40 40
2017 29 23 0 0 1 3 3 367,119 52 71.47 62
2018 25 19 1 0 0 5 1 957,270 16 71.38 46
2019 22 12 0 0 0 0 T23 117,608 102 72.68 131
2020 16 13 1 0 1 3 1 586,321 13 71.55 40
2021 18 9 0 0 0 2 T5 222,661 77 71.30 64
2022 19 4 0 0 0 0 23 69,917 132 73.14 155
2023 9 4 0 0 0 0 T26 54,271 154 0.00 n/a
  • official through 2023 season[9]

* Includes matchplay and other tournaments with no cut

World ranking

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Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.

Year Ranking Ref
2006 67 [10]
2007 32 [11]
2008 9 [12]
2009 9 [13]
2010 20 [14]
2011 19 [15]
2012 19 [16]
2013 17 [17]
2014 22 [18]
2015 45 [19]
2016 58 [20]
2017 71 [21]
2018 34 [22]
2019 76 [23]
2020 52 [24]
2021 73 [25]
2022 312 [26]
2023 446 [27]

Team appearances

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Amateur

Professional

Solheim Cup record

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Year Total
Matches		 Total
W–L–H		 Singles
W–L–H		 Foursomes
W–L–H		 Fourballs
W–L–H		 Points
Won		 Points
%
Career 20 4–13–3 3–3–0 1–5–1 0–5–2 5.5 27.5
2003 3 0–2–1 0–1–0 lost to A. Sörenstam 3&2 0–0–1 halved w/ M. Redman 0–1–0 lost w/ M. Mallon 3&2 0.5 16.7
2007 3 2–0–1 1–0–0 def. T. Johnson 3&2 1–0–0 won w/ P. Hurst 4&2 0–0–1 halved w/ S. Prammanasudh 2.5 83.3
2009 4 1–2–1 1–0–0 def. B. Brewerton 5&4 0–1–0 lost w/ N. Castrale 3&1 0–1–1 lost w/ J. Inkster 1 dn,
halved w/ B. Lang 		1.5 37.5
2011 3 0–3–0 0–1–0 lost to A. Muñoz 1 dn 0–2–0 lost w/ S. Lewis 3&2,
lost w/ S. Lewis 6&5 		0–0–0 0 0
2013 4 0–4–0 0–1–0 lost to B. Recari 2&1 0–1–0 lost w/ B. Lang 2&1 0–2–0 lost w/ G. Piller 2&1,
lost w/ G. Piller 1 dn 		0 0
2015 3 1–2–0 1–0–0 def. S. Pettersen 2&1 0–1–0 lost w/ B. Lincicome 1 dn 0–1–0 lost w/ A. Lee 3&2 1 33.3

References

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  1. ^ Texas Births, 1926-1995
  2. ^ Herrington, Ryan (September 16, 2018). "Angela Stanford didn't just win her first major, she went where no golfer (male or female) has gone before". Golf Digest. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  3. ^ Sirak, Ron (September 16, 2018). "2018 Angela Stanford keeps American major streak alive at". LPGA. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  4. ^ "Previous Champions". Fort Worth Junior Boys and Girls Golf Association. Archived from the original on September 23, 2010. Retrieved March 2, 2009.
  5. ^ "Full Career Bio" (PDF). LPGA. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 9, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  6. ^ "Frogs take swing at WAC Championship and miss". Texas Christian University. Retrieved March 2, 2009.
  7. ^ "2000 Curtis Cup US Team". United States Golf Association. Retrieved March 2, 2009.
  8. ^ "Marina Alex retires after more than decade on LPGA Tour". ESPN. Field Level Media. November 25, 2024.
  9. ^ "Angela Stanford – Results". LPGA. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
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