A four-time LPGA Player of the Year, and a three-time Vare Trophy winner for lowest scoring average, Lopez is still the only women to have won the LPGA Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year and Vare Trophy in the same season. That unprecedented performance served as the springboard to the trail of victories that earned her entrance into the prestigious LPGA Hall of Fame in 1987, after just 10 years on Tour. She is still the youngest player to have been inducted into the elusive Hall, and to date, as won almost 50 titles.
With a remarkable amateur career under her belt, which began when she won the New Mexico Women’s Amateur Championship at the ripe age of 12, Nancy Lopez changed the face of women’s golf in 1978 when she stormed to a record nine rookie Tour victories, including an unmatched streak of five in a row.