Samantha Richdale first started swinging a golf club at age 5, and by 13 she knew she wanted to be a professional golfer. In 2009, that’s what she became as a member of the LPGA’s Duramed Futures development tour.

 

Sunset Ranch was the club she played the most and by the time she graduated high school, she’d earned enough accolades in the sport to win a full-ride golf scholarship to Illinois State University where she majored in chemistry and graduated with a 3.39 GPA.

 

During her time at school, she won 10 college tournaments, including three Missouri Valley Conference Championships. She joined the LPGA’s Duramed Futures tour and scored her first professional victory at the 2008 Gettysburg Championship.

 

2009 proved to be a good year, as in April 2009, she won the Louisiana Pelican Classic then followed that with another win in August at the Turkey Hill Classic, pushing her into the number four spot on the tour’s money list, which earned her full playing privileges in the LPGA for 2010. Samantha currently lives in Florida.