Cindy Figg-Currier

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Cindy Figg-Currier
Personal information
Born (1960-02-23) February 23, 1960 (age 63)
Mount Pleasant, Michigan, U.S.
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Sporting nationalityFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Residence Lakeway, Texas, U.S.
SpousePatrick J. Currier
ChildrenKaitland, Mary
Career
College University of Texas
Turned professional1983
Current tour(s) Futures Tour
Former tour(s) LPGA Tour (1984-2006)
Legends Tour
Professional wins5
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour1
Other4
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship T24: 1998
Women's PGA C'ship T5: 1990
U.S. Women's Open T26: 1990
du Maurier Classic T5: 1997
Women's British Open CUT: 2001

Cindy Figg-Currier (born February 23, 1960) is an American professional golfer who joined the LPGA Tour in October 1984. She was instructed by Paul Marchand and Harvey Penick. She also played under her maiden name, Cindy Figg, before her marriage on July 19, 1986.

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Figg was born in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. She started playing golf at age seven. She was the 1976 Toledo, Ohio junior girls golf champion and the 1978 Michigan Prep golf champion while she was at Mount Pleasant High School. In 2003, she was inducted into the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame.

Figg played college golf at the University of Texas where she was named Most Valuable Player as a senior. She led UT to three top-10 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) national tournament finishes. She individually won the 1982 Women's Trans-National. She graduated in 1982 with a business-marketing degree.

Figg-Currier won once on the LPGA Tour [1] in 1997 after 313 LPGA Tour starts. [2] She also has 31 top-10s on the LPGA Tour. She has also won three times on the Legends Tour and played in the Legends Tour Handa Cup in 2008. Her career earnings exceed two million dollars. [3]

Figg-Currier is currently a board member for The First Tee of Greater Austin.

Professional wins (5)

LPGA Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runners-up
1Sep 1, 1997 State Farm Rail Classic –16 (69-63-68=200)Playoff Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lorie Kane
Flag of the United States.svg Kris Tschetter

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
1 1997 State Farm Rail Classic Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lorie Kane
Flag of the United States.svg Kris Tschetter 		Won with birdie on first extra hole

Legends Tour (3)

Other wins (1)

Team appearances

Professional

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References

  1. ↑ LPGA All-Time Winners List Archived December 29, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ LPGA Tournament Chronology 1990-99 Archived September 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Cindy Figg-Currier - player profile" (PDF). LPGA.com. Retrieved January 29, 2012.[ permanent dead link ]


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