Dottie Pepper (b. 17 August1965, Saratoga Springs, New York) is an American golfer. From 1988 to 1995 she competed as Dottie Mochrie, which was her married name before a divorce. August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... // Events January-February January 4 - United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his Great Society during his State of the Union address. ... Saratoga Springs is a city located in Saratoga County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 26,186. ... Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor sport where individual players or teams hit a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ...
After attending Furman University, Pepper joined the LPGA Tour in 1988. She won seventeen official events on the tour, including two major championships, namely 1992 and 1999 Kraft Nabisco Championships. She topped the money list in 1992 and finished in the top ten in ten of eleven seasons between 1991 and 2001. She played for the United States in the Solheim Cup six times. Furman University Furman University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian, liberal arts university in Greenville, South Carolina. ... The LPGA is the Ladies Professional Golf Association. ... Womens golf has evolved a set of major tournaments which parallels that in mens golf, but the womens system is younger and has been less stable that the mens. ... The Kraft Nabisco Championship (originally the Dinah Shore Championship) is one of the four major golf tournaments for women on the LPGA Tour. ... The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. ...
Due to injury problems Pepper only played one tournament in 2002 and in July 2004 she announced that she would be retiring at the end of the season. In 2005 she began work as a commentator for NBC and The Golf Channel. The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American radio and television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The Golf Channel is an American cable television network devoted (obviously) to the game of golf. ...
External links
Profile on the LPGA's official site
Golf Stars Online - links to features and profiles
With headlights for eyes, steel in her jaw and the fast-forward bearing of the dowhill skier she used to be, Mochrie might be a menace to the sport's pedestrians if she were not so often in the middle of the fairway.
But before fulfilling that ambition, Mochrie's road to No. 1 had been strewn with spinouts from over-revving her powerful but combustible engine.
Mochrie, who called her first experience in the Solheim Cup the biggest thrill of her career, knows that the pressure will be on the heavily favored Americans to uphold their reputation as the best women's tour in the world.
Dottie Pepper enthusiastically hit the drink after her 1999 win, in one of the most emotional and joyous moments in her great career.
Pepper won the event in 1992 (as DottieMochrie), but didnt get a chance to leap into the water that year because her victory came in a playoff which finished at the 10th hole.
DottieMochrie wins in a playoff at the lake-less 10th hole.
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