Brittany Lang

Brittany Lang
— Golfer —
Lang in August 2009
Personal information
Born	August 22, 1985 Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Nationality	United States
Residence	McKinney, Texas, U.S.
Career
College	Duke University (two years)
Turned professional	2005
Current tour(s)	LPGA (joined 2006)
Professional wins	1
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour	1
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA Inspiration	T8: 2006
Women's PGA C'ship	T18: 2008
U.S. Women's Open	T2: 2005
Women's British Open	2nd: 2011
Evian Championship	T57: 2013

Brittany Lang (born August 22, 1985) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.

Amateur career

Born in Richmond, Virginia and raised in McKinney, Texas, Lang had a decorated amateur career. She won eight American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) events and was a two-time First-Team Polo Golf Junior All-American, in 2001 and 2002. Lang represented the United States at the PING Junior Solheim Cup in 2002. In 2003, she won the North and South Women's Amateur and the Women's Western Amateur in consecutive weeks. She also won the 2004 Trans National Amateur title.

Following graduation from McKinney High School in 2003,^[1] Lang played golf at Duke University for two years and won six collegiate tournaments. She was also named the 2004 ACC Freshman of the Year and NCAA Freshman College Golfer of the Year, and the 2005 ACC Player of the Year and won back-to-back ACC individual titles in 2004 and 2005.

Lang was also a member of the victorious 2004 U.S. Curtis Cup Team and won medalist honors at the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links, where she advanced to the quarterfinals of match play.

While still an amateur, Lang competed as a sponsor's exemption in both the 2005 Kraft Nabisco Championship and the LPGA Corning Classic, where she tied for 15th. She finished her amateur career at the 2005 U.S. Women's Open at Cherry Hills, where she tied for second with fellow low amateur Morgan Pressel, two strokes behind champion Birdie Kim.

Professional career

After two years of college golf at Duke, Lang turned professional in July 2005, shortly after her T2 finish at the U.S. Women's Open. She received sponsor's exemptions in 2005 to the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic (T36), State Farm Classic, and Canadian Women's Open (T6). She was the medalist in the first stage of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament in September, then finished T22 at the final stage in December to earn full playing privileges for the 2006 season.^[2]

Lang recorded six top-ten finishes, in 2006 and 2008. At the end of 2008, her third season on the LPGA Tour, her career earnings exceeded $1 million.

Lang's first professional win came in June 2012 at the inaugural Manulife Financial LPGA Classic in Canada, where she triumphed in a four-player playoff. She birdied the last hole four consecutive times to win the playoff. It was the first-ever victory in an LPGA event by a former Duke Blue Devil,^[3][4] and Lang's 154th event on tour.^[5]

Lang has five top ten finishes in major championships: four as a professional and one as an amateur. Her best finish is a solo second at the 2011 Women's British Open at Carnoustie.

She has represented the United States in three successive Solheim Cups, 2009, 2011, and 2013, where she is undefeated in singles play.

Professional wins (1)

LPGA Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share ($)
1	Jun 24, 2012	Manulife Financial LPGA Classic	69-65-67-67=268	–16	Playoff	Chella Choi Inbee Park Hee Kyung Seo	195,000

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	2012	Manulife Financial LPGA Classic	Chella Choi Inbee Park Hee Kyung Seo	Lang won with birdie on third extra hole Park eliminated with birdie on second hole Choi eliminated with birdie on first hole

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order before 2015.

Tournament	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
ANA Inspiration	CUT	T6	T15	T21	T17	T10	T57	T26	CUT	CUT
Women's PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	T69	T18	T39	T42	CUT	T62	T72	T62
U.S. Women's Open	T2TLA	CUT	CUT	T31	T40	T5	T50	T21	T7	T22
Women's British Open	DNP	CUT	CUT	CUT	T33	T43	2	CUT	CUT	T43
The Evian Championship ^									T57	CUT

Tournament	2015	2016
ANA Inspiration	T35	CUT
Women's PGA Championship	T49
U.S. Women's Open	T14
Women's British Open	CUT
The Evian Championship	CUT

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013
LA = Low Amateur
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
T = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
ANA Inspiration	0	0	0	0	2	5	12	8
Women's PGA Championship	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	8
U.S. Women's Open	0	1	0	2	3	6	11	9
Women's British Open	0	1	0	1	1	1	10	4
The Evian Championship	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
Totals	0	2	0	3	6	13	45	30

• Most consecutive cuts made – 9 (2009 Kraft Nabisco – 2011 Kraft Nabisco)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2005 U.S. Open – 2006 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
2005	6	4	0	1	0	2	T2	500	n/a	71.90	n/a
2006	27	21	0	0	2	7	T3	538,552	21	71.35	16
2007	26	15	0	0	0	2	T4	348,148	39	73.05	60
2008	28	23	0	2	0	8	T2	630,294	30	71.79	29
2009	26	25	0	2	0	7	T2	675,065	19	71.08	15
2010	22	16	0	0	0	2	T5	297,213	35	72.32	44
2011	22	20	0	1	0	7	2	627,691	16	72.00	27
2012	25	24	1	0	0	3	1	575,263	24	71.59	26
2013	28	22	0	0	0	1	T7	355,809	42	71.97	46
2014	30	26	0	0	1	5	T3	551,703	29	71.35	24
2015	29	21	0	1	0	5	2	616,097	25	71.44	33

• official as of November 22, 2015 ^[6]

* Includes matchplay and other events without a cut.

World ranking

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

Year	Ranking	Notes
2006	28	[7]
2007	53	[8]
2008	46	[9]
2009	26	[10]
2010	48	[11]
2011	32	[12]
2012	29	[13]
2013	62	[14]
2014	66	[15]
2015	44	[16]

Team appearances

Amateur

• Junior Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2002 (winners)
• Curtis Cup (representing the United States): 2004 (winners)

Professional

• Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2009 (winners), 2011, 2013, 2015 (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	14	5–6–3	2–1–1	1–3–0	2–2–2	6.5	46.4
2009	3	1–0–2	0–0–1 halved w/ L. Davies		1–0–1 won w/ B. Lincicome 5&4, halved w/ A. Stanford	2.0	66.7
2011	4	1–3–0	1–0–0 def. S. Gal 6&5	0–2–0 lost w/ J. Inkster 1 dn lost w/ J. Inkster 3&2	0–1–0 lost w/ M. Wie 4&3	1.0	25.0
2013	4	3–1–0	1–0–0 def. A. Muñoz 2&1	1–1–0 lost w/ A. Stanford 2&1 won w/ M. Wie 2&1	1–0–0 won w/ B. Lincicome 4&3	3.0	75.0
2015	3	0–2–1	0–1–0 lost to M. Reid 2&1		0–1–1 halved w/ G. Piller lost w/ L. Salas 2&1	0.5	16.7

References

1. Wixon, Matt (June 25, 2012). "Former McKinney golf star Brittany Lang earns first LPGA title". DallasNews.com. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
2. "2005 Final Qualifying Tournament results". LPGA. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
3. Ballengee, Ryan (June 24, 2012). "Lang becomes first Duke alumnae to win on LPGA". Golf Channel. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
4. "Lang wins her first professional tournament". Duke University Athletics, sports information. June 24, 2012. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
5. Robinson, Katie Ann (September 6, 2012). "Easy does it: Lang finds secret to success". LPGA. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
6. "Brittany Lang stats". LPGA. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
7. "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 26, 2006.
8. "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 25, 2007.
9. "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 30, 2008.
10. "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 29, 2009.
11. "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 28, 2010.
12. "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 27, 2011.
13. "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 31, 2012.
14. "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 30, 2013.
15. "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 29, 2014.
16. "Women's World Golf Rankings". December 28, 2015.

External links

• Official website
• Brittany Lang at the LPGA Tour official site
• Brittany Lang on Twitter