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HOLE 18- Esteban Toledo ( 1962- ) & Lorena Ochoa ( 1981- )
Born in Mexicali, Esteban is recognized as the
best male Mexican professional golfer of all
times. Esteban has played in over 710 PGA
tournaments throughout his 27-year career and
accumulated more than any other Mexican golfer
in money list wins. Esteban is at the peak of his
career as he has won four events in the last four
years and finished in the Top 10, 19 times. In
May 2013, Esteban became the first Mexican to
win on the PGA Champions Tour, winning the In-
sperity Championship.He has since won the 2013 Montreal Championship, 2015 Nature
Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach and 2016 Allianz Championship. And at the age of
61 he just competed in the Alley Challenge PGA Tour.
A Mexican former professional golfer who started
playing golf at the age of 5, Lorena has played on
the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010. She
was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158
consecutive and total weeks (both are LPGA Tour
records), from 23 April 2007 to her retirement
on 2 May 2010, at the age of 28 years old. The first
Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number
one in the world. She is considered the best Mexican
and Latin American female golfer of all time. Ochoa
was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017
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