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Lizette Salas
Rookie Year
2012
Age
34
Race for the Card
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5’4”…Started playing golf at the age of 7…Credits her dad as the person who most influenced her golf career…Hobbies outside of golf include basketball, dance, zumba, shopping and music…Besides golf her greatest passion is Latin dancing…Qualified for the LPGA Tour on her first attempt.

LPGA Tour Victories (2 wins)

  • 2014 - Kingsmill Championship Presented by JTBC
  • 2022 - Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational

The Solheim Cup (5)

  • 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021

2023 in a Nutshell

  • 12 events, eight cuts made, $207,885 (98)

Career Highlights:

2022:

  • 23 events, 17 cuts made, $762,032 (39)
  • Recorded four top-10 finishes including a win at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational

2021:

  • 21 events, 16 cuts made, $1,161,594 (11)
  • Recorded four top-10 finishes including second place result at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship and the AIG Women's Open
  • Member of the U.S. Solheim Cup team

2020:

  • 13 events, 11 cuts made, $192,024 (62)
  • Recorded a season-best T10 result at the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open

2019:

  • 24 events, 21 cuts made, $1,038,152 (13)
  • Broke the $1 million in single-season earnings for the first time in 2019, with top-five finishes at the AIG Women's British Open (second), CP Women's Open (T3) and KPMG Women's PGA Championship (T5)
  • Competed on her fourth U.S. Solheim Cup team with a 6-6-2 overall record

2018:

  • 24 events, 22 cuts made, $822,064 (23)
  • Recorded four top-10s in 24 starts including a runner-up finishes at the Kia Classic and the Indy Women in Tech Championship Driven by Group 1001

2017:

  • 27 events, 24 cuts made, $878,283 (21)
  • Recorded the most top-10 finishes in a season in her career with eight, including a stretch of four top-five finishes in five starts, with a season-best T3 finish at the Swinging Skirts LPGA Taiwan Championship
  • Ranked fourth on Tour in driving accuracy (83.73%) and putting average (28.71)
  • Competed on her third Solheim Cup for the United States, posting a 3-1-0 record

2016:

  • 24 events, 20 cuts made, $333,013 (58)

  • Finished seventh on Tour in driving accuracy (79.75%)

2015:

  • 24 events, 22 cuts made, $531,096 (31)

  • Competed on her second U.S. Solheim Cup team

  • Finished sixth on Tour in driving accuracy and 10th in putting average in 2015

  • Crossed the $2 million mark in career earnings with a tie for second at the Meijer LPGA Classic Presented by Kraft

2014:

  • 24 events, 20 cuts made, $669,106 (24)

  • Four top-10 finishes, three top-five finishes

  • Rolex Rankings First-time winner (Kingsmill Championship Presented by JTBC)

2013: 

  • 24 events, 23 cuts made, $759,323 (15); best finish was runner-up at the LPGA LOTTE Championship

  • Carded a career-low 62 in the final round of the 2013 LPGA LOTTE Championship to force a playoff with Suzann Pettersen

  • Crossed the $1 million mark in career-earnings with a T39 finish at the CME Group Titleholders

  • Competed on her first U.S. Solheim Cup Team and posted a 1-0-2 record

2012:

  • 18 events, 16 cuts made, $242,035 (51) 

  • Best finish was T9 at the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia.

  • Finished third in the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year race.

  • Carded a career-low 65 in the first round of the 2012 Navistar LPGA Classic.

2011:

  • Turned professional in June.

  • Finished tied for 20th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn Priority List Category 11 for the 2012 LPGA season. 

  • Played on the Epson Tour in 2011 where she recorded a career best T4th finish at the Island Resort Championship.

Amateur:

  • Salas played collegiate golf at the University of Southern California (USC) where she recorded three wins, named the 2008 Pacific Athletic Conference-10 Freshman of the Year, two-time winner of the Pac-10 Player of the Year award (2009,2011), three-time Pac-10 All-Conference First Team selection (2009-2011), and two-time NGCA All-American First Team selection (2009, 2011).

Personal:

  • 5’4”

  • Started playing golf at the age of 7.

  • Credits her dad as the person who most influenced her golf career.

  • Hobbies outside of golf include basketball, dance, zumba, shopping and music.

  • Besides golf her greatest passion is Latin dancing.

  • Qualified for the LPGA Tour on her first attempt.

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