LPGA Drive On Championship presented by Volvik at Golden Ocala
Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club
Hometown/Resides: Seneca, South Carolina/Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Birthdate: January 31, 1992; currently 29 years, 1 month and 7 days
Qualified for LPGA Tour: Finished 14th at the 2012 LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to first earn LPGA Tour membership
Turned Professional/Rookie Year: 2012/2013
VICTORIES
- LPGA: Third career victory
- PREVIOUS WINS: 2014 Cambia Portland Classic, 2020 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G
RACE TO THE CME GLOBE
- With her win, Ernst earns 500 points and is projected to move from 32nd to third with 551 points
MONEY
- With her win, Ernst earns $225,000; she has earned $245,466 this season and $4,127,272 in her career
PREVIOUS LPGA DRIVE ON CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS
- T20 at the 2020 LPGA Drive On Championship—Inverness
- T24 at the 2020 LPGA Drive On Championship—Reynolds Lake Oconee
2021 LPGA TOUR PERFORMANCE
- Three events played, two cuts made, $245,466 earned; one win, one additional top-20 finish
2020 LPGA TOUR PERFORMANCE
- Seventeen events played, 14 cuts made, $771,092 earned; one win, three additional top-10 finishes
OF NOTE
- Ernst hit 10 of 14 fairways and 12 greens in regulation, with 28 putts
- With the win, Ernst surpasses the $4 million threshold in career earnings ($4,127,272)
- Her 72-hole total 273 is the sixth lowest of her career; she carded a 266 at the 2013 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic
- Becomes the third American to win on the LPGA Tour in 2021, joining Jessica Korda (Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions) and Nelly Korda (Gainbridge LPGA)
- This is Ernst’s third event of the 2021 season; her previous best finish was T17 at the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions presented by Insurance Office of America
- Ernst is in her ninth season on the LPGA Tour; she has three career wins with the first two at the 2014 Cambia Portland Classic and 2020 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship pres. by P&G
- She was a member of Team USA at the 2017 Solheim Cup with a 2-2-0 overall record
- Her brother Drew played collegiate golf at Coastal Carolina University and caddies for Ernst
- Hosts the annual Austin Ernst Charity Pro-Am event to benefit Safe Harbor, a domestic violence shelter
- Won the 2011 NCAA Championships individual title at LSU; graduated in 2014 with a degree in Business Management
- Her father Mark is the General Manager and Director of Golf at Cross Creek Plantation in South Carolina and taught Ernst to play
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