Shanshan Feng

Shanshan Feng is a Chinese professional golfer who was born on 5 August 1989 in Guangzhou, in Guangdong province, and began playing golf at ten at the urging of her father, who worked at the golf association in their hometown. She won the China Amateur three years running from 2004 to 2006, moved to the United States at seventeen to train at a junior golf academy in Hilton Head and joined the LPGA Tour in 2008 as the first player from China to become a member of the tour. In 2012 she won the LPGA Championship, the first player from mainland China, man or woman, to win a major championship. She won the Ladies European Tour Order of Merit in 2015, took the Olympic bronze medal in women's golf at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, held the world number one ranking from November 2017 to April 2018 and announced her retirement from professional golf in August 2022.