Angela Stanford

Angela Stanford started her professional golf career in 2000 by winning the Futures Tour Championship and tied for fourth in the LGPA Final Qualifying Tournament. Since then she has remained a competitor on the LGPA Tour. In 2004, she passed $1 million in career earnings, and crossed $2 million in 2007.

Stanford’s most recent LPGA win was the 2008 Bell Micro LGPA Classic in Mobile Alabama. She held a four-stroke lead until the final round of the tournament. It became a close game after she had three bogeys and a double bogey in the first seventeen holes that brought her within one stroke of rookie Shanshan Feng of China. A tense final hole, Stanford made a three and a half foot putt to win one under Feng. Stanford showed an impressive eleven under the 277 total for the tournament.

Stanford’s 2008 LPGA win was the second in her career. In 2003 Stanford stunned the crowd where the media spotlight was on famed golfers, Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie at the ShopRite LGPA Classic. Stanford kept ahead of the pack right up to the final round. Her final round was an astounding twelve consecutive pars and two birdies to win the tournament. Stanford commented, “I believe if you want to be the best, you have to beat the best”. She sure did that, earning herself $195,000 and moving herself from 46th on the money list to 14th.

Now that she is 31 years old, we have not heard the last of Angela Stanford. She remains a first class competitor, and although she claims to be a home-body, she will continue on the LGPA tour and we foresee more wins in the future.