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Natalie Gulbis

Personal Information
Birth	January 7, 1983 (1983-01-07) (age 25) Sacramento, California
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
College	University of Arizona (1 year)
Career
Turned Pro	2001
Current tour	LPGA Tour (joined 2002)
Professional wins	2 (LPGA Tour: 1)
Best results in major championships
Kraft Nabisco	T3: 2006
LPGA Championship	T5: 2005
U.S. Women's Open	T4: 2005
Women's British Open	T8: 2005
Awards
William and Mousie Powell Award	2007

Natalie Anne Gulbis (born January 7, 1983, in Sacramento, California) is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.

Contents 1 Golf career 2 Personal life, business and media 3 Professional wins (1) 3.1 LPGA Tour (1) 4 Results in LPGA majors 5 External links

Golf career

Gulbis started finding interest in the game at the early age of 4. By the time she reached 7 years old she had won her first tournament. In three years, at age 10, she was breaking par.

Gulbis is of Latvian descent, her last name meaning swan in the Latvian language¹. She played in her first LPGA tour event as an amateur at the age of 14 (handicap of 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.

Gulbis did not win a tournament in the first five years of her professional career but still 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.

Gulbis' first professional win came in 2007 at the Evian Masters where she defeated Jeong Jang in a playoff to claim the winner's share of the $3,000,000 purse.

Personal life, business and media

Gulbis is considered to be a sex symbol in the LPGA. She released a 2005 calendar, just before the 2004 U.S. Women's Open, which featured her not only playing golf, but also in striking poses in swimwear. The United States Golf Association (USGA) barred it from being sold at the event, deeming it inappropriate. The calendar was sold very openly at Golf Canada; the USGA was criticized for overreacting. Gulbis also posed for the November 2004 issue of the magazine FHM, an issue that also gave away a chance to play golf with her at her home course, the Lake Las Vegas Resort, where her calendar photo shoot took place. Gulbis has said that she likes the attention she gets, even if it is for her appearance; she has endorsement deals with TaylorMade Golf, Adidas, Canon, Raymond Weil geneve, Amstel Light, SkyCaddie, Payment Data Systems, MasterCard, Winn Golf Grips and Lake Las Vegas Resort. Gulbis was romantically linked to Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in 2005.

In 2006, Gulbis began writing a monthly golf advice column in FHM. In November 2005, a reality television show, The Natalie Gulbis Show, made its debut on The Golf Channel. The show had its second season premiere on October 18, 2006. Gulbis has also appeared on the 2007 version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour by EA Sports along with fellow professionals Annika Sörenstam, Ian Poulter and Luke Donald, among others. In August 2007 Gulbis appeared on the August/September cover of Sactown Magazine in an article that profiled the rising star's busy life of product endorsements and photo shoots, though frustratingly enough, no pro win. Gil Ozir, Vice President of Marketing for Raymond Weil (a luxury watchmaker and one of Gulbis' many endorsement deals) was quoted as saying, "Once she starts winning, she's going to be a megastar." Mere days later, Gulbis won the Evian Masters, her first professional LPGA title.

Professional wins (1)

LPGA Tour (1)

2007 (1) Evian Masters

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Kraft Nabisco Championship	DNP	DNP	T48	T58	T17	T3	CUT	T13
LPGA Championship	DNP	T15	T20	T61	T5	T20	DNP	CUT
U.S. Women's Open	T34	CUT	T13	T37	T4	T16	T35	CUT
Women's British Open	DNP	T13	CUT	T13	T8	T16	T23	T9

DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" tied
Green background for a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish.

External links

• Official site
• Player profile on lpga.com
• "Too Hot for the USGA"

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