Mexico’s First World Class Golfer Rules Again. Ochoa had an awesome year. AGAIN!!
Lorena Ochoa didn’t have a blueprint for becoming the best in the world, and she certainly didn’t have a role model. Mexico had yet to produce anything resembling a world-class golfer, and Ochoa did not look like one at age 12.
So it was surprising when she told her coach she wanted to be No. 1.
"At that time, with the way I was playing, and being in Guadalajara, it was a little bit crazy to think that way," Ochoa said toward the end of a historic season. "But I did it. It took me a long time, but I did it."
It might have seemed like a long time from when she was 12, but she took only five years on the LPGA Tour to establish her reign.
Golfer Lorena Ochoa keeps climbing, selected AP female athlete of year - Yahoo! Sports
