Early life and amateur career

Webb was born in Ayr, Queensland. She was a member of the Australian Amateur team, making six international appearances from 1992-1994, including a 1994 appearance in the Espirito Santo Trophy World Amateur Golf Team Championships. This was the year she became the Australian Strokeplay Champion where she scored a 128 on a par 68 course, over 36 holes.

Professional career

Webb began her professional golfing career in 1994 playing on the Ladies European Tour where she finished second at the Women's Australian Open and the Futures Tour in the U.S., where she won one tournament. In 1995 she became the youngest ever winner of the Weetabix Women's British Open in her rookie season in Europe, prior to it being classed as an LPGA major, and was European Rookie of the Year. She qualified for the LPGA Tour after she finished second at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament despite playing with a broken bone in her wrist.

In 1996 Webb won her first LPGA tournament in her second LPGA start at the HealthSouth Inaugural on the fourth hole of a sudden death playoff. She won three other tournaments and became the first LPGA player to win $1 million mark in a single season topping the year end money list. She was also the 1996 LPGA Rookie of the Year.

In 1997 Webb won three times on the LPGA Tour including another win at the Weetabix Women's British Open, won her first Vare Trophy and was voted 1997 ESPY Best Female Golfer. In 1999 Webb won her first major championship at the du Maurier Ltd. Classic and won her first LPGA Tour Player of the Year award.

Webb also took part in the largest playoff in LPGA Tour history at the 1999 Jamie Farr Kroger Classic. Se Ri Pak birdied the first sudden death playoff hole to defeat Webb, Mardi Lunn, Carin Koch, Sherri Steinhauer, and Kelli Kuehne.

In 2000, Webb won two more major championships, following up her win at the Nabisco Championship with a win at the U.S. Women's Open. This gained her a second consecutive Rolex Player of the Year title and Vare Trophy and she topped the money list, missing out on a chance to become the LPGA's first single-season $2 million winner by taking a mid season break to return home to Australia to run with the Olympic torch. Teamed with Rachel Hetherington representing Australia she won the Women's World Cup in Malaysia, was awarded the preeminent sport award in Australia, the Dawn Fraser Award. and was named Female Player of the Year by the Golf Writers Association of America.

She successfully defended her U.S. Women's Open title in 2001 and won the LPGA Championship to become the youngest winner of the LPGA Career Grand Slam. She teamed with David Duval to play against Annika Sörenstam and Tiger Woods in a made-for-TV Battle at Bighorn between the two best male and two best female players in the world. At the time, it provided women's golf its largest audience ever. Webb's win at the 2002 Women's British Open, which had become an LPGA major in 2001, meant she completed a Super Career Grand Slam - every available major championship in women's golf in her career.

Webb now suffered a three-year slump. She collected just two LPGA wins in the next two years and in 2005 had a best LPGA finish of tied sixth although she did team up with Rachel Hetherington to represent Australia at the Women's World Cup of Golf and won her fifth ANZ Ladies Masters title back home in Australia.

Webb qualified for entry to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000, but was not eligible for induction until she had played ten LPGA Tour events in each of ten seasons. She met this criterion on 9 June 2005 when she completed the first round of the LPGA Championship. At age 30, she became the youngest living person ever to enter the Hall of Fame, and kept that distinction until 2007, when fellow LPGA star Se Ri Pak was inducted.

Webb staged a comeback season in 2006. In the final round at the Kraft Nabisco Championship she holed a 116-yard shot from the fairway to eagle the 18th hole and then birdied the same hole in a sudden-death playoff to beat Lorena Ochoa and win her second Kraft Nabisco Championship. She won four other tournaments including the Evian Masters and Mizuno Classic. Her 2006 Kraft Nabisco win took her into the top ten of the Women's World Golf Rankings for the first time since they were introduced in February 2006.

Her 41 LPGA Tour victories places her tied for 10th with Babe Zaharias on the list of players with the most career LPGA tournament wins and first among all active players.

Professional wins (57)

LPGA Tour wins (41)

Legend

Major championships (7)

Other LPGA Tour (34)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	20 Aug 1995	Weetabix Women's British Open1	−14 (69-70-69-70=278)	6 strokes	Jill McGill Annika Sörenstam
2	21 Jan 1996	HealthSouth Inaugural	−7 (70-70-69=209)	Playoff	Jane Geddes Martha Nause
3	5 May 1996	Sprint Titleholders Championship	−16 (71-65-70-66=272)	1 stroke	Kelly Robbins
4	15 Sep 1996	Safeco Classic	−11 (66-71-71-69=277)	2 shots	Patty Sheehan
5	24 Nov 1996	ITT LPGA Tour Championship	−16 (69-70-68-65=272)	4 strokes	Emilee Klein Nancy Lopez Kelly Robbins
6	20 Apr 1997	Susan G. Komen International	−12 (72-72-66-66=276)	2 strokes	Nanci Bowen Cathy Johnston-Forbes Lorie Kane
7	17 Aug 1997	Weetabix Women's British Open1	−19 (65-70-63-71=269)	8 strokes	Rosie Jones
8	14 Sep 1997	Safeco Classic	−16 (67-67-71-67=272)	1 stroke	Annika Sörenstam
9	1 Mar 1998	Australian Ladies Masters2	−16 (69-69-64-70=272)	5 strokes	Hyun Soon Park Annika Sörenstam
10	19 Apr 1998	City of Hope Myrtle Beach Classic	−19 (68-66-68-67=269)	3 strokes	Meg Mallon
11	30 Jan 1999	The Office Depot	−10 (67-69-72-70=278)	1 stroke	Dottie Pepper Kris Tschetter
12	28 Feb 1999	Australian Ladies Masters2	−26 (63-67-64-68=262)	10 strokes	Janice Moodie
13	21 Mar 1999	Standard Register PING	−14 (68-68-69-69=274)	4 strokes	Lorie Kane
14	9 May 1999	Mercury Titleholders Championship	−17 (69-66-70-66=271)	3 strokes	Annika Sörenstam
15	13 Jun 1999	Wegmans Rochester International	−8 (75-67-68-70=280)	1 stroke	Cindy McCurdy
16	1 Aug 1999	du Maurier Classic	−11 (73-72-66-66=277)	2 strokes	Laura Davies
17	16 Jan 2000	The Office Depot	−7 (65-75-70-71=281)	4 strokes	Juli Inkster
18	27 Feb 2000	Australian Ladies Masters2	−14 (68-68-70-68=274)	1 stroke	Lorie Kane
19	4 Mar 2000	LPGA Takefuji Classic	−9 (68-70-69=207)	Playoff	Annika Sörenstam
20	26 Mar 2000	Nabisco Championship	−14 (67-70-67-70=274)	10 strokes	Dottie Pepper
21	23 Jul 2000	U.S. Women's Open	−6 (69-72-68-73=282)	5 strokes	Meg Mallon Cristie Kerr
22	27 Aug 2000	Oldsmobile Classic	−23 (66-61-66-72=265)	2 strokes	Meg Mallon
23	22 Oct 2000	AFLAC Champions	−15 (69-67-68-69=273)	Playoff	Dottie Pepper
24	3 Jun 2001	U.S. Women's Open	−7 (70-65-69-69=273)	8 strokes	Se Ri Pak
25	24 Jun 2001	McDonald's LPGA Championship	−14 (67-64-70-69=270)	2 strokes	Laura Diaz
26	18 Nov 2001	Tyco/ADT Championship	−9 (67-71-73-68=279)	2 strokes	Annika Sörenstam
27	23 Jun 2002	Wegmans Rochester LPGA	−12 (64-72-72-68=276)	1 stroke	Mi Hyun Kim
28	11 Aug 2002	Weetabix Women's British Open1	−15 (66-71-70-66=273)	2 strokes	Michelle Ellis Paula Martí
29	7 Sep 2003	John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic	−10 (65-69-66=200)	9 strokes	Dorothy Delasin Candie Kung Jamie Hullett Tammie Green
30	6 Jun 2004	Kellogg-Keebler Classic	−16 (69-64-67=200)	5 strokes	Siew-Ai Lim Annika Sörenstam
31	2 Apr 2006	Kraft Nabisco Championship	−9 (70-68-76-65=279)	Playoff	Lorena Ochoa
32	14 May 2006	Michelob ULTRA Open at Kingsmill	−14 (66-68-66-70=270)	7 strokes	Lorena Ochoa Hee-Won Han
33	29 Jul 2006	Evian Masters1	−16 (67-68-69-68=272)	1 stroke	Laura Davies Michelle Wie
34	24 Sep 2006	Longs Drugs Challenge	−15 (67-70-66-70=273)	1 stroke	Annika Sörenstam
35	5 Nov 2006	Mizuno Classic3	−14 (69-67-66=202)	4 strokes	Kaori Higo
36	29 Mar 2009	J Golf Phoenix LPGA International	−14 (70-68-69-67=274)	2 strokes	Jiyai Shin
37	27 Feb 2011	HSBC Women's Champions	−13 (70-66-70-69=275)	1 stroke	Chie Arimura
38	20 Mar 2011	RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup	−12 (71-67-66=204)	1 stroke	Brittany Lincicome Paula Creamer
39	2 Jun 2013	ShopRite LPGA Classic	−4 (72-69-68=209)	2 strokes	Shanshan Feng
40	16 Feb 2014	ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open5	−12 (71-69-68-68=276)	1 stroke	Chella Choi
41	23 Mar 2014	JTBC Founders Cup	−19 (66-71-69-63=269)	1 stroke	Lydia Ko Mirim Lee Stacy Lewis Azahara Muñoz Amy Yang

LPGA Tour playoff record (4-6)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1996	HealthSouth Inaugural	Jane Geddes Martha Nause	Won with par on fourth extra hole Nause eliminated with par on first hole
2	1997	HealthSouth Inaugural	Michelle McGann	Lost to par on first extra hole
3	1999	Jamie Farr Kroger Classic	Carin Koch Kelli Kuehne Mardi Lunn Se Ri Pak Sherri Steinhauer	Pak won with birdie on first extra hole
4	1999	PageNet Championship	Laura Davies Se Ri Pak	Pak won with birdie on first extra hole
5	2000	LPGA Takefuji Classic	Annika Sörenstam	Won with birdie on first extra hole
6	2000	Evian Masters	Annika Sörenstam	Lost to eagle on first extra hole
7	2000	AFLAC Champions	Dottie Pepper	Won with par on first extra hole
8	2006	Kraft Nabisco Championship	Lorena Ochoa	Won with birdie on first extra hole
9	2006	McDonald's LPGA Championship	Se Ri Pak	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
10	2008	Ginn Tribute Hosted by Annika	Seon Hwa Lee	Lost to par on first extra hole

LPGA majors are shown in bold.

ALPG Tour wins (13)

• 1998 (1) Australian Ladies Masters2
• 1999 (1) Australian Ladies Masters2
• 2000 (2) AAMI Women's Australian Open4, Australian Ladies Masters2
• 2001 (1) ANZ Ladies Masters4
• 2002 (1) AAMI Women's Australian Open4
• 2005 (1) ANZ Ladies Masters4
• 2007 (2) MFS Women's Australian Open4, ANZ Ladies Masters4
• 2008 (1) MFS Women's Australian Open4
• 2010 (1) ANZ Ladies Masters4
• 2013 (1) Volvik RACV Ladies Masters4
• 2014 (1) ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open5

LPGA of Japan Tour wins (3)

• 2000 (1) Nichriei World Ladies Cup
• 2001 (1) Nichriei World Ladies Cup
• 2006 (1) Mizuno Classic3

Ladies European Tour wins (15)

• 1995 (1) Weetabix Women's British Open1
• 1997 (1) Weetabix Women's British Open1
• 2000 (1) AAMI Women's Australian Open4
• 2001 (1) ANZ Ladies Masters4
• 2002 (2) AAMI Women's Australian Open4, Weetabix Women's British Open1
• 2005 (1) ANZ Ladies Masters4
• 2006 (1) Evian Masters1
• 2007 (2) MFS Women's Australian Open4, ANZ Ladies Masters4
• 2008 (1) MFS Women's Australian Open4
• 2010 (1) ANZ Ladies Masters4
• 2013 (2) Volvik RACV Ladies Masters4, ISPS Handa Ladies European Masters
• 2014 (1) ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open5

Futures Tour wins (1)

• 1995 Golden Flake Golden Ocala Futures Classic

Other wins (3)

• 2000 Women's World Cup Golf (with Rachel Hetherington)
• 2001 Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (with Dottie Pepper and Annika Sörenstam)
• 2003 ConAgra LPGA Skins Game

Notes

• 1 Co-sanctioned by LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour
• 2 Co-sanctioned by LPGA Tour and ALPG Tour
• 3 Co-sanctioned by LPGA Tour and LPGA of Japan Tour
• 4 Co-sanctioned by ALPG Tour and Ladies European Tour
• 5 Co-sanctioned by ALPG Tour, Ladies European Tour, and LPGA Tour

Major championships

Wins (7)

Year	Championship	Winning score	Margin	Runner(s)-up
1999	du Maurier Classic	−11 (73-72-66-66=277)	2 strokes	Laura Davies
2000	Nabisco Championship	−14 (67-70-67-70=274)	10 strokes	Dottie Pepper
2000	U.S. Women's Open	−6 (69-72-68-73=282)	5 strokes	Cristie Kerr, Meg Mallon
2001	McDonald's LPGA Championship	−14 (67-64-70-69=270)	2 strokes	Laura Diaz
2001	U.S. Women's Open	−7 (70-65-69-69=273)	8 strokes	Se Ri Pak
2002	Weetabix Women's British Open	−15 (66-71-70-66=273)	2 strokes	Michelle Ellis, Paula Martí
2006	Kraft Nabisco Championship	−9 (70-68-76-65=279)	Playoff 1	Lorena Ochoa

1 Defeated Ochoa with birdie on first extra hole

Results timeline

Results not in chronological order before 2015.

Tournament	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
ANA Inspiration	T5	29	T7	3	1
Women's PGA Championship	T41	T9	T4	CUT	T9
U.S. Women's Open	T19	4	T31	7	1
du Maurier Classic ^	T2	T27	T14	1	T7

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
ANA Inspiration	T2	7	T21	3	T44	1	T20	T13	T8
Women's PGA Championship	1	T4	T56	T39	T20	2	2	T29	T49
U.S. Women's Open	1	CUT	CUT	T16	T31	T37	CUT	T38	T34
Women's British Open†	T15	1	T3	DNP	T11	CUT	T28	T9	2

Tournament	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
ANA Inspiration	T5	T13	T15	T5	T11	T29	T56
Women's PGA Championship	T5	T20	T6	T33	T25	T7
U.S. Women's Open	T17	T6	T50	T13	T30	T14
Women's British Open	T43	T22	T5	CUT	CUT	CUT
The Evian Championship ^^				T15	2	T38

^ 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
† Webb won the Women's British Open in 1995 and 1997 before it became an LPGA major.
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied for place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
ANA Inspiration	2	1	2	8	11	17	21	21
Women's PGA Championship	1	2	0	6	10	13	20	19
U.S. Women's Open	2	0	0	3	5	10	20	17
Women's British Open	1	1	1	4	5	8	14	10
The Evian Championship	0	1	0	1	1	2	3	3
du Maurier Classic	1	1	0	2	3	4	5	5
Totals	7	6	3	23	35	54	83	75

• Most consecutive cuts made - 23 (2007 British Open - 2013 U.S. Open)
• Longest streak of top-10s - 9 (1999 U.S. Open - 2001 U.S. Open)

LPGA Tour career summary

Year	Tournaments played	Cuts Made*	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top 10s	Best Finish	Earnings ($)	Money list rank	Scoring average	Scoring rank
1996	25	24	4	5	1	15	1	1,002,000	1	70.86	3
1997	25	25	3	4	3	20	1	987,606	2	70.00	1
1998	23	22	2	1	3	13	1	704,477	4	70.52	3
1999	25	23	6	6	4	22	1	1,591,959	1	69.43	1
2000	22	22	7	3	1	17	1	1,876,853	1	70.05	1
2001	22	22	3	4	0	13	1	1,535,404	3	70.16	3
2002	21	20	2	0	3	12	1	1,009,760	5	70.33	3
2003	23	21	1	1	1	12	1	780,239	11	70.39	5
2004	22	21	1	1	2	8	1	748,316	9	70.53	6
2005	21	20	0	1	0	5	2	500,268	27	71.52	16
2006	21	20	5	3	1	13	1	2,090,113	2	70.11	4
2007	21	19	0	1	1	6	2	630,030	22	71.93	18
2008	20	19	0	2	1	6	2	854,562	18	71.24	11
2009	25	18	1	2	0	6	1	968,098	12	71.26	18
2010	23	22	0	0	0	6	T4	479,889	23	71.06	12
2011	20	20	2	0	1	5	1	757,671	14	71.56	17
2012	20	20	0	1	1	7	T2	884,973	12	71.19	18
2013	21	19	1	0	0	6	1	765,880	13	70.64	8
2014	19	18	2	1	1	6	1	1,069,540	8	70.74	12
2015	22	18	0	0	0	3	T5	394,497	43	71.47	34

*

World ranking

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

Year	World ranking	Source
2006	3
2007	2
2008	10
2009	13
2010	15
2011	18
2012	16
2013	8
2014	9
2015	31

Honours

Webb was awarded the Centenary Medal on 1 January 2001.

On 26 January 2010 Webb was appointed an Member of the Order of Australia for service to golf, and to the community as a benefactor and supporter of a range of health and disability organisations.

Team appearances

Amateur

• Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Australia): 1994

Professional

• World Cup (representing Australia): 2005
• International Crown (representing Australia): 2014

[ Source: Wikipedia ]