Background
Wright was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England and currently holds residence in both McKinney, Texas and Albury, Australia.
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Lindsey Wright
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She finished second at the 2001 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship while at Pepperdine University. She was a semifinalist at the 2002 United States. Women"s Amateur, finished second at the 2002 World Cup in Malaysia and was a finalist at the 2002 British Ladies Amateur.
Career
She earned exempt status for the 2004 LPGA season in 2003, and has been competing full-time on the Tour since. Wright took up golf at the age of nine. She was an Australian Institute of Sport golf scholarship holder from 1998 to 1999.
She played in the 2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship as an amateur and tied for 57th.
Other amateur victories and honours 1998 Leading amateur at the Women"s Australian Open 1998-1999 AIS Scholarship Holder 1998-1999 Victorian State Team Representative 2000-2003 Pepperdine University (Sports Administration Degree) 4 Time All-American 2000 Represented Australia at the World Cup in Germany: T6 individually 2003 National Collegiate Athletic Association Women"s Team Championship runner-up while at Pepperdine University She tied for 54th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn non-exempt status for the 2004 LPGA season. In 2005, she recorded a season-best tie for fifth at the Longs Drugs Challenge.
In 2006, she recorded a season-best tie for sixth at the CN Canadian Women"s Open and carded a career-low 66 during the second round of the Fields Open in Hawaii, where she tied for ninth. Wright recorded a career-low finish at the McDonald"s LPGA Championship, where she finished fourth and tied her career-low 66 in the final round.
She also tied for fifth at the Wegmans LPGA and at the Household Bank Women"s World Match Play Championship.
Futures Tour wins (3) ALPG Tour wins (2) Results not in chronological order before 2014. The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013. DNP = did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" = tied Yellow background for a top-10 finish.
Summary Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2006 LPGA - 2007 LPGA) Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2009 Kraft Nabisco - 2008 LPGA) Amateur Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Australia): 2002 (winners) Professional World Cup (representing Australia): 2007, 2008 International Crown (representing Australia): 2014 The Queens (representing Australia): 2015.
