Lilia Vu
Lilia Vu, a former No. 1-ranked amateur in the world, won The ANNIKA at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Fla., to win her fourth LPGA Tour event of the season.
Vu has also won the 2023 British Open, the Chevron Championship, and the Honda LPGA Thailand. The British Open and Chevron Championship are majors on the LPGA Tour.
Vu's second win on the LPGA Tour was the Chevron Championship, where she birdied the first playoff hole to beat Angel Yin in a dramatic finish to win at The Club at Carlton Woods after her breakthrough breaking through in February with a victory at the Honda LPGA Thailand.
Vu's trajectory and her stellar amateur led to her celebratory leap into the pond, a tradition that traveled to Houston from the tournament's longtime home in Mission Hills.
Vu won eight times as a collegian at UCLA to rank first on the Bruins' all-time career victory list. She was named the 2016 Pac-12 Conference Freshman of the Year, and in 2018 she was Women's Golf Coaches Association Player of the Year, Pac-12 Conference Golfer of the Year, and Honda Award finalist. She was also a three-time WGCA First Team All-American and All-Pac 12 performer.
As a junior, she won the
Pac-12 individual championship at Sewailo Golf Club to lead the Bruins to the conference title.
In the summer of 2017, she finished second at the Canadian Women's Amateur Championship and reached the semifinals of match play at the U.S. Women's Amateur.
A native of Fountain Valley, Calif., Vu captured the
2016 Women's Southern California Amateur Championship at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club by shooting a final round 68 to secure a two-shot win over Haley Moore.
Vu earned four points for the victorious 2018 U.S. Curtis Cup team at Quaker Ridge Golf Club, Scarsdale, New York and won the 2018 Espirito Santo Trophy in Ireland with Jennifer Kupcho and Kristen Gillman. She also won the 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup at Evian Resort Golf Club in France.
ABOUT THE Chevron Championship (ANA Inspiration)
First women's professional major of the year,
the Chevron (formerly the ANA Inspiration, and before
that the Kraft Nabisco)
Championship draws more than
100 of the best women professional golfers in the
world, as well as the top-ranked amateurs in the
country.
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