Brittany Lincicome

Brittany Lincicome
Lincicome at the 2009 LPGA Championship
Personal information
Full name	Brittany Grace Lincicome
Nickname	Bam Bam
Born	(1985-09-19) September 19, 1985 (age 39) St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Sporting nationality	United States
Residence	Gulfport, Florida, U.S.
Career
Turned professional	2004
Current tour(s)	LPGA Tour (joined 2005)
Professional wins	8
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour	8
Best results in LPGA major championships (wins: 2)
Chevron Championship	Won: 2009, 2015
Women's PGA C'ship	2nd: 2014
U.S. Women's Open	5th: 2009
Women's British Open	T9: 2010
Evian Championship	T8: 2014

Brittany Grace Lincicome (born September 19, 1985) is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She currently resides in Gulfport, Florida.

Lincicome is one of the longest drivers in the history of women's golf. In her rookie year, 2005, she led the LPGA in driving distance with an average of 270.3 yards (247.2 m). In 2006, her driving average increased to 278.6 yards (254.8 m), second among all LPGA players. ^[1] Her prodigious length off the tee has earned her the nickname "Bam-Bam." ^[2] Lincicome has won two major championships: the 2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship and the 2015 ANA Inspiration.

Amateur career

Lincicome was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, and participated in more than 100 amateur events. Her wins included the American Junior Golf Association Chateu Elan in 2001 and 2003 and the Avilla Junior Classic in 2003. In 2004, she won the Harder Hall Invitational. Lincicome competed in both the 2004 U.S. Women's Open and the 2004 State Farm Classic on the LPGA Tour as an amateur, even leading the former after the first round.

Professional career

Lincicome turned professional in December 2004 at age 19, after finishing in 20th place at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn her tour card for 2005. ^[3] Home-schooled, she had graduated from high school the previous spring. Her first victory was in the 2006 HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship, where she defeated Michelle Wie in the quarterfinals, Lorena Ochoa in the semifinals, and Juli Inkster in the final match. She captured her second win in April 2007 at the Ginn Open, again holding off Ochoa to capture the victory on the 72nd hole.

In 2007, Lincicome earned a spot on the U.S. Solheim Cup team for the first time. In singles play, she lost to Laura Davies. Years earlier, as a 12-year-old, Lincicome had carried the scoring sign for Davies at the JCPenney Classic LPGA event, leading Davies to good-naturedly refer to Lincicome as "Sign Girl." ^[4]

In 2009, Lincicome won the Kraft Nabisco Championship, an LPGA major, after making an eagle on the final hole to leap frog Kristy McPherson, who held a one shot lead going into the final hole.

In August 2014, Lincicome lost a sudden-death playoff with Inbee Park at the LPGA Championship. She had held a one shot lead coming to the 72nd hole, but made bogey to fall back into a playoff. Lincicome lost the playoff at the first extra hole when she could only make a bogey to Park's par.

Lincicome won her second major championship in April 2015, with a victory at the ANA Inspiration, the second time she had won this major. She moved into a tie for the lead after eagling the 72nd hole in regulation play, just as she had done when winning the title in 2009. Lincicome prevailed in a sudden-death playoff over fellow American Stacy Lewis, winning with a par on the third extra hole. ^[5]

In 2018, Lincicome was granted a sponsor's exemption into the Barbasol Championship on the PGA Tour. ^[6] This made her the fifth woman to play in a PGA Tour sanctioned event, the first since Michelle Wie in 2008. Lincicome missed the cut by 9 shots, scoring 78 (+6) and 71 (−1), her second round making her the second woman to break par on a PGA Tour event. ^[7]

Lincicome retired following the 2024 season. ^[8]

Professional wins (8)

LPGA Tour wins (8)

Legend
Major championships (2)
Other LPGA Tour (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share ($)
1	Jul 9, 2006	HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship	3 & 2			Juli Inkster	500,000
2	Apr 15, 2007	Ginn Open	67-72-67-72=278	−10	1 stroke	Lorena Ochoa	390,000
3	Apr 5, 2009	Kraft Nabisco Championship	66-74-70-69=279	−9	1 stroke	Cristie Kerr Kristy McPherson	300,000
4	Jun 5, 2011	ShopRite LPGA Classic	72-64-66=202	−11	1 stroke	Cristie Kerr Jiyai Shin	225,000
5	Aug 28, 2011	CN Canadian Women's Open	68-68-69-70=275	−13	1 stroke	Stacy Lewis Michelle Wie	337,500
6	Apr 5, 2015	ANA Inspiration (2)	72-68-70-69=279	−9	Playoff	Stacy Lewis	375,000
7	Jan 29, 2017	Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic	64-65-69-68=266	−26	Playoff	Lexi Thompson	210,000
8	Jan 28, 2018	Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic (2)	74-67-66=207	−12	2 strokes	Hsu Wei-ling	210,000

LPGA Tour playoff record (2–5)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	2010	Bell Micro LPGA Classic	Se Ri Pak Suzann Pettersen	Pak won with birdie on third extra hole Pettersen eliminated on second hole with par
2	2012	Women's Australian Open	Julieta Granada Jessica Korda Stacy Lewis So Yeon Ryu Hee Kyung Seo	Korda won with birdie on second extra hole
3	2014	LPGA Championship	Inbee Park	Lost to par on first extra hole
4	2014	LPGA KEB-HanaBank Championship	Baek Kyu-jung Chun In-gee	Baek won with birdie on first extra hole
5	2015	ANA Inspiration	Stacy Lewis	Won with par on third extra hole
6	2017	Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic	Lexi Thompson	Won with birdie on first extra hole
7	2018	Marathon Classic	Thidapa Suwannapura	Lost to birdie on first extra hole

Major championships

Wins (2)

Year	Championship	54 holes	Winning score	Margin	Runner(s)-up
2009	Kraft Nabisco Championship	2 shot deficit	−9 (66-74-70-69=279)	1 stroke	Cristie Kerr, Kristy McPherson
2015	ANA Inspiration	4 shot deficit	−9 (72-68-70-69=279)	Playoff1	Stacy Lewis

¹ Defeated Stacy Lewis in a sudden-death playoff: Lincicome (5-5-5) and Lewis (5-5-6).

Results timeline

Results not in chronological order.

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Chevron Championship				T2	CUT	1	T21	T13	CUT
Women's PGA Championship		T33	T49	T6	T34	CUT	T14	T20	T25
U.S. Women's Open	T55	T31	7	T14	T58	5	T25	T27	T18
Women's British Open		CUT	T56	T11	CUT	T28	T9	T30	CUT

Tournament	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Chevron Championship	CUT	T59	1	T36	CUT	CUT	T52	T64	T57	T53	T23	T30	CUT
U.S. Women's Open	T9	T15	CUT	T38	CUT	T25		T46
Women's PGA Championship	T17	2	4	T22	T14	T40		T9	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT
The Evian Championship ^	T44	T8	CUT	T22	T32	T49		NT	CUT
Women's British Open	T52	T38	T50	T43	T39	CUT			T39

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

  Win

  Top 10

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T = tied

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Chevron Championship	2	1	0	3	3	6	19	13
U.S. Women's Open	0	0	0	1	3	8	16	14
Women's PGA Championship	0	1	0	2	4	10	19	14
The Evian Championship	0	0	0	0	1	2	7	5
Women's British Open	0	0	0	0	1	2	15	11
Totals	2	2	0	6	12	28	76	57

• Most consecutive cuts made – 10 (2009 U.S. Open – 2011 British Open)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 4 (2014 WPC – 2015 WPC)

LPGA Tour career summary

Year	Tournaments played	Cuts made*	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top 10s	Best finish	Earnings ($)	Money list rank	Scoring average	Scoring rank
2004	2	2	0	0	0	0	T55	n/a	n/a	73.00	n/a
2005	20	12	0	0	0	0	T18	127,452	72	73.18	73
2006	23	20	1	0	1	5	1	853,013	14	72.08	40
2007	22	20	1	1	0	4	1	871,384	13	72.14	24
2008	22	11	0	0	0	1	T7	114,963	92	73.72	129
2009	22	15	1	0	0	4	1	647,147	21	72.31	51
2010	23	22	0	1	0	6	T2	663,808	15	71.25	15
2011	21	21	2	1	2	6	1	1,154,234	6	71.03	9
2012	24	20	0	2	1	6	T2	581,631	23	71.53	22
2013	23	16	0	0	1	3	T3	449,113	32	71.93	44
2014	26	21	0	2	0	6	2	790,661	17	71.31	23
2015	26	23	1	0	0	5	1	933,521	12	71.41	29
2016	25	23	0	0	0	3	T8	390,128	47	71.24	34
2017	24	20	1	0	0	3	1	579,061	32	70.40	22
2018	21	19	1	1	1	7	1	833,586	22	70.39	17
2019	7	5	0	0	0	0	T22	59,023	131	71.75	n/a
2020	13	12	0	0	0	1	T9	206,124	59	71.53	39
2021	19	14	0	0	0	4	T7	214,738	80	70.82	42
2022	11	6	0	0	0	1	T6	106,812	115	71.94	103
2023	13	6	0	0	0	0	T44	87,392	134	72.49	121
2024	16	5	0	0	0	1	T8	105,182	132	73.13	152
Totals^	403	313	8	8	6	66	1	9,769,013	28

^ Official through 2024 season. ^[9] * Includes matchplay and other events without a cut.

Team appearances

Amateur

• Junior Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2002 (winners), 2003

Professional

• Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2007 (winners), 2009 (winners), 2011, 2013, 2015 (winners), 2017 (winners)
• Lexus Cup (representing International team): 2006, 2007

Solheim Cup record

Year	Total matches	Total W–L–H	Singles W–L–H	Foursomes W–L–H	Fourballs W–L–H	Points won	Points %
Career	21	7–12–2	1–5–0	1–3–1	5–4–1	8	38.1
2007	3	0–2–1	0–1–0 lost to L. Davies 4&3	0–0–0	0–1–1 lost w/ P. Hurst halved w/ P. Creamer	0.5	16.7
2009	4	2–2–0	1–0–0 def. S. Gustafson 3&2	0–1–0 lost w/ K. McPherson 3&2	1–1–0 won w/ B. Lang 5&4 lost w/ K. McPherson 1 up	2	50.0
2011	4	2–2–0	0–1–0 lost to C. Boeljon 2 dn	1–0–0 won w/ P. Creamer 1 up	1–1–0 lost w/ V. Hurst 5&4 won w/ P.Creamer 3&1	2	50.0
2013	3	1–1–1	0–1–0 lost to J. Ewart Shadoff 3&2	0–0–1 halved w/ L. Salas	1–0–0 won w/ B. Lang 4&3	1.5	50.0
2015	4	0–4–0	0–1–0 lost to K. Icher 3&2	0–2–0 lost w/ M. Wie 2&1 lost w/ A. Stanford 1 dn	0–1–0 lost w/ A. Lee 2 dn	0	0.0
2017	3	2–1–0	0–1–0 lost to C. Ciganda 4&3	0–0–0	2–0–0 won w/ B. Lang 3&2 won w/ B. Lang 2 up	2	66.7

References

1. "Average Driving Distance – 2006". LPGA Tour. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
2. Sirak, Ron (February 8, 2010). "My Town: Brittany Lincicome". Golf Digest.
3. "LPGA Qualifying Tournament History 2004". LPGA Tour. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
4. "Ginn Open 2007 Interview with Brittany Lincicome". LPGA Ginn Open. April 15, 2007. Archived from the original on November 23, 2007. Retrieved September 17, 2007.
5. "2015 ANA Inspiration Final Round Notes and Interviews". LPGA. April 5, 2015. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
6. Shedloski, Dave (June 1, 2018). "LPGA pro Brittany Lincicome set to play in PGA Tour event on sponsor's exemption". Golf Digest.
7. Ross, Helen (July 21, 2018). "Lincicome, while missing the cut, ends her historic week on a high note". PGA Tour.
8. "Marina Alex retires after more than decade on LPGA Tour". ESPN. Field Level Media. November 25, 2024.
9. "Brittany Lincicome – Results". LPGA. Retrieved December 3, 2024.

External links

• Official website
• Brittany Lincicome at the LPGA Tour official site
• Brittany Lincicome at the Women's World Golf Rankings official site