Sandra Post

Born: June 4, 1948, in Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Tour Victories:
8

Major Championships:
1
LPGA Championship: 1968

Awards and Honors:
• LPGA Rookie of the Year, 1968
• Named Canada's Female Athlete of the Year, 1979
• Member, Canadian Sports Hall of Fame
• Member, Royal Canadian Golf Association Hall of Fame

Quote, Unquote:
Sandra Post: "Golf teaches you discipline and goal setting and how to control your emotions."

Trivia:
• Sandra Post was 20 years, 11 days old when she won the 1968 LPGA Championship, setting a record as youngest player to win an LPGA major. That record stood until 2007, when Morgan Pressel won the Kraft Nabisco Championship at a younger age.

• Post was the first player to win the Dinah Shore - now known as the Kraft Nabisco Championship - in back-to-back years. However, the tournament was not yet accorded major championship status when Post did so in 1978-79.

Sandra Post Biography:
Sandra Post was the first highly successful Canadian golfer on the LPGA or PGA tours, and after her retirement she returned home to become one of the top golf instructors in her native country.

Post dominated junior golf in Canada as a teen, winning three straight Ontario Junior Championships and three consecutive Canada Junior Championships.

She turned pro in 1968 at the age of 19, joining the LPGA Tour. And Post quickly made a splash: At the LPGA Championship that year, she beat Kathy Whitworth in a playoff for the crown. At 20 years, 11 days old, Post was the youngest-ever major championship winner among women - a distinction she held all the way through the first major of the 2007 season, when Morgan Pressel bettered it.

While Post played solidly after that splashy debut, it would be 10 long years before she won again - not until 1978.

But when her next wins did come, they were big ones, too. In 1978-79, Post won the Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle, one of the LPGA Tour's biggest events, in back-to-back years. She was the first to do so.

That tournament is now known as the Kraft Nabisco Championship and is one of the tour's four majors; it did not yet have major championship status, however, when Post won it back-to-back.

Post was one of the top players on tour from 1978-81, winning twice in '78, three times in '79, and once each in 1980 and '81. She finished in the Top 15 on the money list eight straight years, 1974-81, with a high of second place in 1979.

After winning the 1981 McDonald's Kids Classic, things slowed down for Post. Her best finish in 1982 was a tie for 14th. In 1983, she played only 14 tournaments, skipping the second half of the season, and then she retired from the LPGA Tour in 1984.

In addition to her eight tour victories, Post also finished runner-up 20 times.

Following the end of her tour life, Post launched a highly successful career as a golf instructor, creating the Sandra Post School of Golf that now has multiple locations across Canada. She also has a signature line of golf clubs with the Canadian company Jazz Golf, has written a book and produced several golf instructional videos.