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Sean O’Hair is a professional golfer born in 1982 in Texas. Unlike many other pro golfers seen today, O’Hair did not attend college or play college golf. He turned pro before his senior year of high school, in 1999, soon enrolling in the David Leadbetter Golf Academy in Florida.

World class golfer Retief Goosen is one of the few golfers that holds membership in three different PGA Tours, the U.S. PGA Tour, the European Tour, and the South African Tour.  He has won tournaments in virtually every corner of the world, which sets him apart from other professional golfers.  His consistent and successful career makes him a golfer to watch and to enjoy.

Angel Cabrera, born in 1969, is an Argentine professional golfer. The son of a handyman and a maid, Cabrera became a caddy at the age of 10, where he first learned to golf by playing against the other caddies. Unlike many other pro golfers who start very young, Cabrera did not own a set of his own clubs until he was 16.

Nick Watney may be one of the newest faces on the PGA Tour, but he is steadily moving up in the World Golf Ratings.  His love for competitive golf is clearly seen in his attitude and the way that he plays.  He has said of the difference between collegiate golf and the PGA Tour, “To be honest with you, it's just the amount of money I'm playing for. Not playing for anything in college and playing for purses like this is a big change. But it's where I want to be. I love to play golf competitively.”

Paula Creamer was born on 5^th August, 1986 in America. This ace golf player is fondly known as “Pink Panther”. She plays on US based Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour. She is one of the assets of American sports fraternity winning 10 tournaments in four seasons including 8 LPGA Tour events. According to the rankings she has awarded with the fourth position among all the other women golfers.

Wilt Chamberlain.  Wayne Gretzky.  Joe Namath.  Babe Ruth.  Jack Nicklaus.  Each of these players have one thing in common: they were among the best at their respective sport and have remained that way throughout history.  At some point though, the best has to be replaced with someone new and the records have to be broken.  Michael Jordan, Mario Lemieux, Joe Montana, Tiger Woods, Alex Rodriguez have all come along and taken over their respective games.

It is a great honor and distinction to be known as one of the world’s greatest golfers.  There are only a handful of players in the world who are universally recognized as the best golfers in the world today: Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els.  Each of these golfers have a few things in common; they were very good at a very early age, have won many tournaments and have used their fame for the betterment of society.

Anyone worth his two cents in the golfing community has heard about Sergio Garcia. The golfing prodigy, who started playing at the age of 3, won his first championship at 12. At 16, he became the youngest person to first make the cut at the 1995 Turespana Open Mediterranea, a prestigious European Tour Event.  In 1995, he went on to win the European Amateur, becoming the youngest player to do so. Three years later, he won the British Amateur. By 1999, Garcia was playing in the Masters Tournament.

Tiger Woods called her the best female golfer of all time and rightly so. After all, how many females in golfing history can lay claim to achieving in such a short time everything that Annika Sorenstam has done? And, given who she is to the golfing world, more than one eyebrow shot up in incredulity when Sorenstam announced her retirement in March 2008. What will she do next? Will she still play golf? Where will she go? These are only some of the questions that Sorenstam was pelted with after her dramatic announcement.

We often watch in amazement as our favorite stars perform on the big stage but we never truly see all the hard work and time that went into getting them to that moment.  A great example of this is the world’s current #1 female golfer, Lorena Ochoa.