Lorena Ochoa is a Mexican former professional golfer who became the top-ranked woman in golf for an extended stretch in the mid to late 2000s. She won multiple major championships before retiring from full-time competition relatively early to focus on family and philanthropic work in Mexico.
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Career HighlightRanked the top female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive weeks, an LPGA Tour record, from April 2007 until her retirement in May 2010, and inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017. 1 Classification
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1. Wikipedia, Lorena Ochoa
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Lorena Ochoa Reyes (Spanish: [loˈɾena oˈtʃoa] ; born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican professional golfer.
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Lorena Ochoa Reyes (Spanish: [loˈɾena oˈtʃoa] ; born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican professional golfer.
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Lorena Ochoa Reyes (Spanish: [loˈɾena oˈtʃoa] ; born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican professional golfer.
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She was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive and total weeks (the consecutive streak is an LPGA Tour record), from 23 April 2007 to her retirement on 2 May 2010, at the age of 28 years old.
Wikipedia, article summary lead
Lorena Ochoa Reyes (Spanish: [loˈɾena oˈtʃoa] ; born 15 November 1981) is a Mexican professional golfer.
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