Life on the World Tour: Lunch and Conversation with International LPGA Champions

Diaz, born in Scotia, New York, joined the LPGA tour in 1999. In her best season yet — 2002 — she scored ten finishes in the “Top Ten” and won both the Welch’s/Circle K Championship and
the LPGA Corning Classic. A determined athlete, she became the second player in history to compete in the Solheim Cup while pregnant and won a point for the victorious U.S. team. After giving birth to a healthy boy in 2006, she was back in competition two months later. As of April 2008, Diaz ranked 7th
on the tour with two “Top Ten” finishes.

Laura Diaz

USA

Jeong Jang, a.k.a., JJ, began her golf career in 1997 as a top-ranked Korean amateur. She came to America in 1999
and qualified for the tour on her first try. In 2005, she won the Weetabix Women’s British Open, and, in 2006, she won her second career LPGA tournament — the Wegmans LPGA. A truly international champion, JJ won Japan’s most coveted major, the Japan Women’s Open, in October 2006. This spring, she ranked 6th on the leaderboard in the still-young 2008 season.

Jeong Jang

South Korea

Since her rookie year in 2001, Meunier- Lebouc has five international victories, the Kraft Nabisco Championship and
nearly $2 million in career earnings to her credit. She began to play golf at 13 and lists her parents and husband, Antoine Lebouc — also a professional golfer — as critical to her success. In 2004, she gave birth to daughter Phildine Pearl, and still managed a season best fourth place finish at the Wendy’s Championship for Children.

Patricia Meunier-Lebouc

France