Angela Stanford


Angela Gwen Stanford is an American professional golfer who currently competes on the LPGA Tour.

Amateur career

Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Stanford won the Fort Worth Girls Championship four times, the 1996 Texas State 4A High School Championship and the 1996 PING Texas State Junior Championship. Following graduation from Boswell High School in 1996, she enrolled at Texas Christian University 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 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. 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.

Professional career

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.

Professional wins (7)

LPGA Tour (6)

No.DateTournamentWinning
score		To parMargin of
victory		Runner-upWinner's
share
129 Jun 2003ShopRite LPGA Classic65-67-65=197−163 strokes Becky Morgan195,000
214 Sep 2008Bell Micro LPGA Classic70-67-67-73=277−111 stroke Shanshan Feng210,000
316 Nov 2008Lorena Ochoa Invitational68-66-72-69=275−131 stroke Brittany Lang
Annika Sörenstam		200,000
414 Feb 2009SBS Open at Turtle Bay65-71-70=206−103 strokes Michelle Wie180,000
526 Feb 2012HSBC Women's Champions66-70-71-71=278−10Playoff Na Yeon Choi
Shanshan Feng
Jenny Shin		210,000
616 Sep 2018The Evian Championship72-64-68-68=272−121 stroke Austin Ernst, Kim Sei-young
Mo Martin, Amy Olson		577,500

LPGA Tour playoff record
No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
12003U.S. Women's Open Hilary Lunke
Kelly Robbins		Lunke won 18-hole playoff
22009P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship Jiyai Shin
Sun Young Yoo		Shin won with birdie on second extra hole
32012HSBC Women's Champions Na Yeon Choi
Shanshan Feng
Jenny Shin		Won with par on third extra hole
Choi eliminated with par on second hole
Feng eliminated with par on first hole
42013Manulife Financial LPGA Classic Hee Young ParkLost to birdie on third extra hole
52015Toto Japan Classic Ahn Sun-ju
Lee Ji-hee		Ahn won with birdie on first extra hole

Futures Tour (1)

Wins (1)

Results timeline

Results not in chronological order before 2019.
^ 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

CUT = missed the half-way cut.
T = tied

Summary

*Includes matchplay and other tournaments with no cut

World ranking

Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.
YearRanking
200667
200732
20089
20099
201020
201119
201219
201317
201422
201545
201658
201771
201834
201976

Team appearances

Amateur
Professional