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| Natalie Gulbis |
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| Top 10 Ten Women Golfers 2008 |
| Natalie Gulbis Height: 5'9" | Birthdate: Jan 7th 1983 | Birthplace: Sacramento, California | College: Arizona | Debut: 2001 |
| Natalie Gulbis started playing golf at the age of 4. By the time was 7 she had won her first tournament. She was breaking par at just 10 years old! Natalie is of Latvian descent, and her surname, Gulbis, means swan in Latvian. She played in her first LPGA tour event as an amateur at the age of 14 when her handicap was 2. She attended Granite Bay High School and graduated when she was 16. She turned professional at age 18 after playing for one season on the women's golf team at the University of Arizona. She finished sixth on the LPGA money list in 2005 with over $1 million (U.S.) in earnings and played on the winning United States Solheim Cup team. She placed in the top-10 in four consecutive major championships from the 2005 LPGA Championship to the 2006 Kraft Nabisco Championship. Her first professional win came in 2007 at the Evian Masters where she defeated Jeong Jang in a playoff. |