Trish Johnson

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Patricia Mary "Trish" Johnson MBE (born 17 January 1966) is an English professional golfer. She won three times on the LPGA Tour and 19 times on the Ladies European Tour. As a senior she has won both senior women's major championships, the U.S. Senior Women's Open and the Senior LPGA Championship.

Trish Johnson MBE
Johnson during 2010 Women's British Open
Personal information
Full name	Patricia Mary Johnson
Born	(1966-01-17) 17 January 1966 (age 59) Bristol, England
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sporting nationality	England
Career
Turned professional	1987
Current tour(s)	Ladies European Tour
Former tour(s)	LPGA Tour
Professional wins	29
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour	3
Ladies European Tour	19 (T3rd all-time)
Other	7
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship	T8: 1993
Women's PGA C'ship	8th/T8: 1993, 1997
U.S. Women's Open	10th: 1998
du Maurier Classic	T3: 1991
Women's British Open	T19: 2001
Evian Championship	CUT: 2014
Achievements and awards
Ladies European Tour Rookie of the Year 1987 Ladies European Tour Order of Merit 1990

Early life

Johnson was born in Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom. Her father and her three brothers were all golfers, one of them was a professional golfer. She practiced other sports, including badminton, soccer and tennis, but took up golf at age nine influenced by her family, playing at Royal North Devon Golf Club, a links course and the oldest golf club in England. She preferred to learn by herself rather than taking golf lessons.^[1][2]

Amateur career

She was South Western Champion in 1983 and 1984. In 1984 she was both England Under-23 and Under-21 Champion. In 1985 she won the English Women's Amateur Championship, was the English Women's Strokeplay Champion^[3] and repeated as England Under-23 Champion. In 1986 she represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Espirito Santo Trophy World Amateur Golf Team Championships and the Curtis Cup. At the 1986 Curtis Cup match, on foreign soil at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas, her team won with 13−5 against United States and Johnson won maximum points in her four games.^[4][5]

Professional career

Johnson turned professional in March 1987. She won three tournaments in her first year as a professional and was Rookie of Year on the Ladies European Tour in 1987. She won four tournaments in 1990 and won the 1990 Order of Merit. Overall, she has won 19 tournaments on the Ladies European Tour and has finished in the top ten of the Order of Merit on thirteen occasions, including second places in 2000 and 2004.^[6]

Her latest regular victory came at the age of 48 years, 7 months, and 15 days at the 2014 Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open, making her the oldest ever winner on the Ladies European Tour^[7] and tied third on the all-time-list of most wins on the tour.^[8]

Johnson won the 1987 LPGA Tour Qualifying School to earn playing rights for the 1988 season. She has three wins on the US-based LPGA Tour. She won the 1993 Las Vegas LPGA tournament and the following week's LPGA Atlanta Women's Championship. Her last LPGA victory was the 1996 Fieldcrest Cannon Classic.^[9]

She was a member of the European Solheim Cup team in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005, and 2007 and teamed with Laura Davies to represent England at the 2007 Women's World Cup of Golf.^[10]

Senior career

After turning 50, Johnson has won six tournaments on the Legends Tour, where most tournaments had an age limit of 45, including three senior women's major golf championships. She won the inaugural Senior LPGA Championship in 2017 and repeated that victory in 2021.

At the 2023 U.S. Senior Women's Open at Waverley Country Club in Portland, Oregon, which had an age limit of 50, Johnson, at 57 years of age, was tied at fourth, five strokes from leader Catriona Matthew after two rounds. She advanced to the lead after a third round 5-under-par 67 and finished winner, one stroke ahead of Leta Lindley after the final round. Johnson received a winner's check of $180,000, twice as much as the highest prize on any regular win in her career.^[2]

Johnson became the player with most victories in senior women's majors championships and one of three players who, during their careers, have won both of the two senior majors. The other two players are Laura Davies and Helen Alfredsson.

Awards, honors

In 2010, Johnson earned Life Time Membership of the Ladies European Tour, reaching the criteria for the honor after the tour decided to retrospectively award points for her 2008 win of the European Nations Cup.^[11]

In September 2024, the England Golf Federation announced that Johnson was selected to be inducted in to the England Golf Hall of Fame.^[12]

In June 2025 Johnson was in the King's Birthday honors list becoming an MBE .^[13]

Amateur wins

• 1984 England Under-21 Championship, England Under-23 Championship
• 1985 English Women's Amateur Championship, English Women's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship, England Under-23 Championship, French International Lady Juniors Amateur Championship

Professional wins (29)

LPGA Tour wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	4 Apr 1993	Las Vegas LPGA	−7 (71-71-67=209)	4 strokes	Missie McGeorge
2	18 Apr 1993	Atlanta Women's Championship	−6 (72-72-68-70=282)	2 strokes	Sherri Steinhauer
3	29 Sep 1996	Fieldcrest Cannon Classic	−18 (67-71-68-64=270)	3 strokes	Kim Saiki

Ladies European Tour wins (19)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	6 Jun 1987	McEwan's Wirral Classic[14]	−4 (72-70-73-77=292)	Playoff	Karen Lunn
2	25 Jul 1987	Bloor Homes Eastleigh Classic[15]	−22 (64-60-60-58=242)	11 strokes	Corinne Dibnah
3	25 Oct 1987	Woolmark Ladies' Matchplay[16]	4 and 3		Marie-Laure de Lorenzi
4	13 May 1990	Hennessy Ladies' Cup[17][18]	−3 (72-68-71-74=285)	3 strokes	Marie-Laure de Lorenzi, Tammie Green
5	15 Jul 1990	Bloor Homes Eastleigh Classic[18]	−11 (61-66-58-64=249)	5 strokes	Corinne Dibnah
6	16 Sep 1990	Ladies European Open[19][18]	−12 (71-67-69-69=276)	2 strokes	Michelle Estill, Pearl Sinn
7	11 Nov 1990	Longines Classic[20]	[phone]=286)	6 strokes	Gillian Stewart
8	31 May 1992	Skol La Manga Club Classic[21]	−10 (73-66-67-68=274)	1 stroke	Florence Descampe, Catrin Nilsmark
9	8 Sep 1996	Marks & Spencer European Open[22]	−14 (74-66-64-70=274)	5 strokes	Pernilla Sterner, Anne-Marie Knight
10	13 Oct 1996	Open de France Dames[23]	−19 (62-68-70=200)	10 strokes	Raquel Carriedo-Tomás
11	11 Jul 1999	Open de France Dames[24] (2)	−6 (70-70-75-67=282)	1 stroke	Alison Nicholas
12	24 Oct 1999	Marrakech Palmeraie Open[24]	−12 (70-67-67=204)	5 strokes	Valérie Van Ryckeghem
13	6 Aug 2000	The Daily Telegraph Ladies British Masters[25]	−9 (68-71-68=207)	2 strokes	Vibeke Stensrud
14	15 Aug 2004	Wales "Golf as it should be" Ladies Open[26]	−15 (73-70-69-65=277)	3 strokes	Iben Tinning, Laura Davies
15	26 May 2007	BMW Ladies Italian Open[27]	−15 (68-70-69-66=273)	1 stroke	Bettina Hauert
16	6 Apr 2008	VCI European Ladies Golf Cup^ (with Rebecca Hudson)	−21 (267)	5 strokes	Martina Eberl / Anja Monke Ellen Smets / Lara Tadiotto
17	4 Jul 2010	Tenerife Ladies Open[28][29]	−14 (67-71-66-70=274)	1 stroke	Virginie Lagoutte
18	12 Sep 2010	Open de France Feminin[28][30] (3)	−14 (70-67-63-74=274)	Playoff	Diana Luna
19	29 Aug 2014	Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open[31][8]	−7 (66-70-73=209)	2 strokes	Gwladys Nocera

^ Nation team event, with two rounds of better-ball and two rounds of a greensome variation, sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour, counted as a tour win but with unofficial prize money and not counted in the Order of Merit.

Ladies European Tour playoff record (2–4)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1987	British Olivetti Tournament[32][33]	Jane Connachan	Lost. Connachan won with par on first extra hole.
2	1987	McEwan's Wirral Classic[14]	Karen Lunn	Won on second extra hole.
3	1996	Hennessy Cup	Helen Alfredsson Liselotte Neumann	Lost. Alfredsson won with birdie on second extra hole. Neumann eliminated on first hole.
4	1997	Deesse Ladies' Swiss Open[34]	Marie-Laure de Lorenzi	Lost.
5	1999	Laura Davies' Invitational[35][36]	Sofia Grönberg -Whitmore	Lost. Grönberg won win birdie on second extra hole.
6	2010	Open de France Feminin[28][30][37]	Diana Luna	Won with birdie on first extra hole.

Source:^[38]

Other wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	18 Oct 1992	Sunrise Cup World Team Championship (individual)[39]	+3 (71-72-76=219)	Shared with Liselotte Neumann

Legends Tour wins (6)

Legend
Legends Tour major championships (3)
Other Legends Tour (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	21 Aug 2016	The Legends Championship[40]	−5 (68-71=139)	Playoff[a]	Juli Inkster
2	12 Jul 2017	Senior LPGA Championship	−4 (67-72-73=212)	3 strokes	Michele Redman
3	10 Jun 2018	Suquamish Clearwater Legends Cup[41]	−8 (66-70=136)	5 strokes	Lisa Grimes
4	7 Sep 2018	BJ's Charity Championship (with Laura Davies)[42]	−10 (61)	2 strokes	Patti Rizzo and Michele Redman, Donna Caponi and Laurie Rinker
5	29 Aug 2021	Senior LPGA Championship	−7 (67-73-69=209)	1 stroke	Becky Morgan
6	27 Aug 2023	U.S. Senior Women's Open	−4 (73-72-67-72=284)	1 stroke	Leta Lindley

1. Johnson won with a par at the sixth playoff hole.

Senior major championships

Wins (3)

Year	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
2017	Senior LPGA Championship	−4 (67-72-73=212)	3 strokes	Michele Redman
2021	Senior LPGA Championship	−7 (67-73-69=209)	1 stroke	Becky Morgan
2023	U.S. Senior Women's Open	−4 (73-72-67-72=284)	1 stroke	Leta Lindley

Ladies European Tour career summary

Year	Earnings	Order of Merit rank	Scoring average
1987	£35,718	5
1988	£2,110	90
1989	£11,631	36
1990	£83,043	1
1991	£18,155	19
1992	£51,805	4
1993	£17,451	17
1994	£31,309	15
1995	£52,464	7
1996	£80,333	3
1997	£45,742	9	72.40
1998	£73,190	4	72.13
1999	£117,214	4	70.86
2000	€115,131	2	71.93
2001	€66,043	16	72.71
2002	€36,011	27	73.71
2003	€89,066	9	71.73
2004	€160,051	2	71.82
2005	€116,190	9	71.91
2006	€72,288	24
2007	€202,468	4	72.35
2008	€67,782	34	73.12
2009	€46,567	40	72.30
2010	€139,925	9	72.11
2011	€30,839	71	73.27
2012	€124,438	10	71.90
2013	€50,055	44	72.63
2014	€92,607	17	72.38
2015	€27,434		75.00
2016	€32,093	52	73.61
2017	−	−	74.29

Yellow for top-10 finishes, green for first.

Team appearances

Amateur

• European Lady Junior's Team Championship (representing England): 1984, 1986 (winners)
• Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1985 (winners)
• European Ladies' Team Championship (representing England): 1985
• Women's Home Internationals (representing England): 1985 (winners), 1986
• Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1986 (winners)
• Espirito Santo Trophy: (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1986

Professional

• Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 1990, 1992 (winners), 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 (winners), 2005, 2007
• World Cup (representing England): 2007, 2008
• VCI European Ladies Golf Cup (representing England): 2008 (winners)
• Handa Cup (representing World team): 2013 (winners), 2014, 2015
• The Queens (representing Europe): 2016

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	25	5–13–7	1–7–0	2–4–2	2–2–5	8.5	34%
1990	3	0–3–0	0–1–0 lost to P. Bradley 8&7	0–1–0 lost w/M de Lorenzi 5&4	0–1–0 lost w/M de Lorenzi 2&1	0	0%
1992	3	1–1–1	1–0–0 def P. Sheehan 2&1	0–1–0 lost w/F.Descampe 1dn	0–0–1 halved w/F.Descampe	1.5	50%
1994	3	0–3–0	0–1–0 lost to B. Daniel 1dn	0–1–0 lost w/P. Wright 2dn	0–1–0 lost w/P. Wright 3&2	0	0%
1996	4	2–1–1	0–1–0 lost to D. Pepper 3&2	1–0–0 won w/L. Davies 4&3	1–0–1 won w/L. Davies 6&5, halved w/A. Sorenstam	2.5	62.5%
1998	2	0–2–0	0–1–0 lost to D. Pepper 3&2	0–1–0 lost w/L. Davies 3&1		0	0%
2000	4	2–1–1	0–1–0 lost to D. Pepper 2&1	1–0–1 won w/S. Gustafson 3&2, halved w/S. Gustafson	1–0–0 won w/S. Gustafson 3&2	2.5	62.5%
2005	3	0–1–2	0–1–0 lost to P.Hurst 2&1	0–0–1 halved w/S. Gustafson	0–0–1 halved w/I. Tinning	1	33.3%
2007	3	0–1–2	0–1–0 lost to A.Stanford 3&2		0–0–2 halved w/L. Davies, halved w/I. Tinning	1	33.3%

See also

• List of golfers with most Ladies European Tour wins