Amateur career

Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Stanford won the Fort Worth Girls Championship four times (1993-1996), the 1996 Texas State 4A High School Championship and the 1996 PING Texas State Junior Championship. Following graduation from Boswell High School in 1996, she enrolled at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth. Stanford won nine collegiate tournaments for the Horned Frogs, was a four-time All-American and a four-time All-Western Athletic Conference (WAC) selection. She was named WAC Freshman of the Year in 1997 and WAC Player of the Year in 1999 and won the 2000 WAC Championship. She earned a bachelor's degree in speech communication from TCU in 2000.

Stanford was a member of the 2000 U.S. Curtis Cup team and a semifinalist at the 2000 British Ladies Amateur.

Professional career

Stanford turned professional following the 2000 U.S. Women's Amateur in August and played on the Futures Tour, where she earned a victory at the season-ending event in early October. She finished fourth in the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament that year to earn exempt status on the LPGA Tour for 2001.

Her first victory on the LPGA Tour came in her third season, at the 2003 ShopRite LPGA Classic. A week later Stanford was in a three player 18-hole playoff for the U.S. Women's Open; she lost to Hilary Lunke by one stroke. Her best finish on the LPGA money was in 2008, at ninth place with over $1.1 million.

Stanford has been a member of six U.S. Solheim Cup teams: in 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015, where in the penultimate match, she defeated Suzann Pettersen which cleared the way for Paula Creamer to score the winning point, and gave the U.S. Its first Solheim Cup win since 2009.

Professional wins (6)

LPGA Tour (5)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share ($)
1	29 Jun 2003	ShopRite LPGA Classic	65-67-65=197	-16	3 strokes	Becky Morgan	195,000
2	14 Sep 2008	Bell Micro LPGA Classic	70-67-67-73=277	-11	1 stroke	Shanshan Feng	210,000
3	16 Nov 2008	Lorena Ochoa Invitational	68-66-72-69=275	-13	1 stroke	Brittany Lang Annika Sörenstam	200,000
4	14 Feb 2009	SBS Open at Turtle Bay	65-71-70=206	-10	3 strokes	Michelle Wie	180,000
5	26 Feb 2012	HSBC Women's Champions	66-70-71-71=278	-10	Playoff	Na Yeon Choi Shanshan Feng Jenny Shin	210,000

LPGA Tour playoff record (1-4)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	2003	U.S. Women's Open	Hilary Lunke Kelly Robbins	Lunke won 18-hole playoff (Lunke:70, Stanford:71, Robbins:73)
2	2009	P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship	Jiyai Shin Sun Young Yoo	Shin won with birdie on second extra hole
3	2012	HSBC Women's Champions	Na Yeon Choi Shanshan Feng Jenny Shin	Won with par on third extra hole Choi eliminated with par on second hole Feng eliminated with par on first hole
4	2013	Manulife Financial LPGA Classic	Hee Young Park	Lost to birdie on third extra hole
5	2015	Toto Japan Classic	Ahn Sun-Ju Lee Ji-Hee	Ahn won with birdie on first extra hole

Futures Tour (1)

• 2000 (1) Summit Consulting SBC FUTURES Tour Championship

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order before 2015.

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
ANA Inspiration	DNP	DNP	DNP	T51	CUT	T58	CUT	T10	T15	T12
Women's PGA Championship	DNP	CUT	T59	T27	T4	T16	T29	T33	T25	T5
U.S. Women's Open	CUT	CUT	CUT	T2	CUT	T10	T49	T16	T58	CUT
Women's British Open ^		DNP	T13	T64	CUT	CUT	T36	CUT	CUT	T20

Tournament	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
ANA Inspiration	T15	T3	T11	T19	T7	T11	CUT
Women's PGA Championship	T25	T30	CUT	T28	T30	T41
U.S. Women's Open	T19	4	T54	T4	T30	T26
Women's British Open	T50	T22	T23	T17	T5	T21
The Evian Championship ^^				T6	CUT	CUT

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001
^^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013
CUT = missed the half-way cut.
T = tied
Yellow background for a top-10 finish.

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
ANA Inspiration	0	0	1	1	3	9	14	11
Women's PGA Championship	0	0	0	2	2	5	15	13
U.S. Women's Open	0	1	0	3	4	6	16	11
Women's British Open	0	0	0	1	1	7	14	10
The Evian Championship	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	1
Totals	0	1	1	7	11	28	62	46

• Most consecutive cuts made - 12 (2009 British Open - 2012 British Open)
• Longest streak of top-10s - 2 (2013 Evian - 2014 Kraft Nabisco)

LPGA Tour career summary

Year	Tournaments played	Cuts made*	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top 10s	Best finish	Earnings ($)	Money list rank	Scoring average	Scoring rank
2001	26	12	0	0	0	0	T15	66,956	98	73.24	103
2002	19	12	0	1	0	2	2	221,857	45	72.37	46
2003	21	17	1	1	0	3	1	643,192	17	71.94	38
2004	24	19	0	0	0	2	T4	297,790	39	71.86	T43
2005	25	15	0	0	1	3	T3	272,288	44	73.11	69
2006	25	20	0	2	0	3	2	473,218	23	71.80	T29
2007	24	21	0	0	2	12	T3	713,880	19	71.62	11
2008	27	23	2	1	2	10	1	1,134,753	9	71.22	9
2009	21	20	1	2	2	11	1	1,081,916	10	70.64	11
2010	22	19	0	1	0	7	2	596,830	18	71.35	19
2011	21	20	0	0	3	9	3	1,017,196	7	71.42	15
2012	26	23	1	2	1	6	1	794,294	16	71.51	21
2013	22	10	0	1	1	6	2	778,234	12	70.71	11
2014	27	20	0	2	0	6	2	754,728	19	71.18	18
2015	27	23	0	1	0	3	T2	491,777	34	71.27	22

*

World ranking

Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.

Year	Ranking
2006	67
2007	32
2008	9
2009	9
2010	20
2011	19
2012	19
2013	17
2014	22
2015	45

Team appearances

Amateur

• Curtis Cup (representing the United States): 2000 (winners)

Professional

• Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2003, 2007 (winners), 2009 (winners), 2011, 2013, 2015 (winners)
• Lexus Cup (representing International team): 2006, 2008 (winners)

Solheim Cup record

Year	Total Matches	Total W-L-H	Singles W-L-H	Foursomes W-L-H	Fourballs W-L-H	Points Won	Points %
Career	20	4-13-3	3-3-0	1-5-1	0-5-2	5.5	27.5
2003	3	0-2-1	0-1-0 lost to A. Sörenstam 3&2	0-0-1 halved w/ M. Redman	0-1-0 lost w/ M. Mallon 3&2	0.5	16.7
2007	3	2-0-1	1-0-0 def. T. Johnson 3&2	1-0-0 won w/ P. Hurst 4&2	0-0-1 halved w/ S. Prammanasudh	2.5	83.3
2009	4	1-2-1	1-0-0 def. B. Brewerton 5&4	0-1-0 lost w/ N. Castrale 3&1	0-1-1 lost w/ J. Inkster 1 dn, halved w/ B. Lang	1.5	37.5
2011	3	0-3-0	0-1-0 lost to A. Muñoz 1 dn	0-2-0 lost w/ S. Lewis 3&2, lost w/ S. Lewis 6&5	0-0-0	0	0
2013	4	0-4-0	0-1-0 lost to B. Recari 2&1	0-1-0 lost w/ B. Lang 2&1	0-2-0 lost w/ G. Piller 2&1, lost w/ G. Piller 1 dn	0	0
2015	3	1-2-0	1-0-0 def. S. Pettersen 2&1	0-1-0 lost w/ B. Lincicome 1 dn	0-1-0 lost w/ A. Lee 3&2	1	33.3

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