Andrea Lee | |||||||
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Personal information | |||||||
Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | August 15, 1998||||||
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||
Sporting nationality | United States | ||||||
Residence | Hermosa Beach, California, U.S. | ||||||
Career | |||||||
College | Stanford University | ||||||
Turned professional | 2019 | ||||||
Current tour(s) | LPGA Tour (joined 2020) | ||||||
Professional wins | 2 | ||||||
Number of wins by tour | |||||||
LPGA Tour | 1 | ||||||
Epson Tour | 1 | ||||||
Best results in LPGA major championships | |||||||
Chevron Championship | T17: 2024 | ||||||
Women's PGA C'ship | CUT: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 | ||||||
U.S. Women's Open | T3: 2024 | ||||||
Women's British Open | T7: 2020 | ||||||
Evian Championship | T15: 2022 | ||||||
Achievements and awards | |||||||
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Medal record |
Andrea Lee (born August 15, 1998) is an American professional golfer and member of the LPGA Tour. [1] A golf prodigy, in 2015 and 2019 she spent a total of 17 weeks as world number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. [2]
Lee grew up in Hermosa Beach, California. She started competing at age 8 and won 50 junior titles in four years. [3] At 15, she qualified for the 2014 U.S. Women's Open at Pinehurst and made the cut. She finished the 2014 season as the number one ranked player in the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) after winning two big tournaments on that circuit, the Rolex Tournament of Champions and the Yani Tseng Invitational. The latter victory earned her an exemption into the 2015 Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic where she finished tied 51st. She received a sponsor's invite for the 2015 ANA Inspiration, missing the cut by one stroke. She led Mira Costa High School to the state title in 2015. [4]
Lee successfully represented the United States at the Junior Ryder Cup, Junior Solheim Cup and the Curtis Cup. She played in the 2016 Espirito Santo Trophy and won silver at the 2015 Pan American Games individually and in the mixed team event with Kristen Gillman, Beau Hossler and Lee McCoy. She won the team gold at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei with Emilee Hoffman and Mariel Galdiano.
Lee played collegiately for Stanford University between 2016 and 2019. She became the most decorated golfer in school history, setting a school record with nine individual titles and topping the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings. [5] As a freshman in 2016–17, she was WGCA Freshman of the Year, a finalist for WGCA Player of the Year, and a finalist for the Honda Sports Award for golf. [3]
In 2019, Lee was semi-finalist at the U.S. Women's Amateur, and won the Mark H. McCormack Medal as the world's top-ranked amateur at the end of the season. [6]
Lee turned professional in late 2019 after she finished T30 at the LPGA Q-Series to earn status for the 2020 LPGA Tour. [5] In her rookie season, she made 11 cuts in 15 starts with two top-10 finishes, a tie for fifth at the Marathon Classic and a tie for seventh at the 2020 Women's British Open, to finish 48th on the money list. [1]
Lee captured her first professional title at the 2022 Casino Del Sol Golf Classic on the Epson Tour with a par on the third hole of a playoff against her Curtis Cup teammate Lucy Li. [7]
In September 2022, Lee won her first LPGA Tour title at the Portland Classic. [8]
Source: [2]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Winner's share ($) |
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1 | Sep 18, 2022 | Portland Classic | 72-64-67-66=269 | −19 | 1 stroke | Daniela Darquea | 225,000 |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner-up | Winner's share ($) |
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1 | Apr 3, 2022 | Casino Del Sol Golf Classic | 69-65-67-69=270 | −18 | Playoff | Lucy Li | 30,000 |
Results not in chronological order.
Tournament | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Chevron Championship | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | T56 | T17 | ||||
U.S. Women's Open | T69 | CUT | T60 | T15 | T20 | T3 | |||||
Women's PGA Championship | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | CUT | ||||||
The Evian Championship | NT | T15 | CUT | 62 | |||||||
Women's British Open | T7 | T55 | T28 | T9 | T22 |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied
Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.
Year | Ranking | Source |
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2014 | 746 | [9] |
2015 | 696 | [10] |
2016 | 1,025 | [11] |
2017 | n/a | [12] |
2018 | n/a | [13] |
2019 | 797 | [14] |
2020 | 118 | [15] |
2021 | 136 | [16] |
2022 | 31 | [17] |
2023 | 55 | [18] |
Amateur
Professional
Year | Total matches | Total W–L–H | Singles W–L–H | Foursomes W–L–H | Fourballs W–L–H | Points won | Points % |
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Career | 7 | 3–2–2 | 0–0–2 | 1–1–0 | 2–1–0 | 4.0 | 57.1 |
2023 | 4 | 1–2–1 | 0–0–1 halved w/ G. Hall | 1–1–0 won w/ D. Kang 1 up lost w/ D. Kang 1 dn | 0–1–0 lost w/ R. Zhang 2&1 | 1.5 | 37.5 |
2024 | 3 | 2–0–1 | 0–0–1 halved w/ E. Henseleit | 0–0–0 | 2–0–0 won w/ R. Zhang 5&4 won w/ R. Zhang 6&4 | 2.5 | 83.3 |
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