Lorena Ochoa was honored with the Rolex Player of the Year and Vare Trophy Awards at the LPGA’s season-ending awards ceremony last week. Ochoa received her third Rolex Player of the Year and Vare Trophy Award titles, which recognizes the player with the lowest scoring average.
The Rolex Player of the Year Award is the pinnacle of excellence on the LPGA Tour, rewarding players for their consistent top finishes. Ochoa, the Rolex Rankings’ number one since April 2007, won seven times this season and recorded 10 additional top-10 finishes in 21 starts on the LPGA Tour. She also earned a 68.5802 scoring average to capture the Vare Trophy. Ochoa was the only player in 2008 to maintain a sub-70 scoring average, which is one-tenth of a stroke lower than 2007.
“Lorena has had yet another incredible season,” LPGA Commissioner Carolyn F. Bivens said. “Her work off the course has been equally impressive. Once only a national hero, Lorena is now a global hero. The world is grateful to have her, and we are more than proud to call her our own.”
You go Lorena! You deserve to be where you are not only for your accomplishments on the course but off the course as well; if only half of us did half of you’re working on with people in need this would be a much better world…
Felicidades!