Cindy Figg-Currier
{{short description|American professional golfer}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|2|23}}
| birth_place = Mount Pleasant, Michigan, U.S.
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| nationality = {{USA}}
| residence = Lakeway, Texas, U.S.
| spouse = Patrick J. Currier
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| children = Kaitland, Mary
| college = University of Texas
| yearpro = 1983
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| tour = Futures Tour
| extour = LPGA Tour (1984-2006)
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| lpgawins = 1
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| nabisco = T24: 1998
| lpga = T5: 1990
| wusopen = T26: 1990
| dumaurier = T5: 1997
| wbritopen = CUT: 2001
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Cindy Figg-Currier (born February 23, 1960) is an American professional golfer who joined the LPGA Tour in October 1984. She was instructed by Paul Marchand and Harvey Penick. She also played under her maiden name, Cindy Figg, before her marriage on July 19, 1986.
Figg was born in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. She started playing golf at age seven. She was the 1976 Toledo, Ohio junior girls golf champion and the 1978 Michigan Prep golf champion while she was at Mount Pleasant High School. In 2003, she was inducted into the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame.
Figg played college golf at the University of Texas where she was named Most Valuable Player as a senior. She led UT to three top-10 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) national tournament finishes. She individually won the 1982 Women's Trans-National. She graduated in 1982 with a business-marketing degree.
Figg-Currier won once on the LPGA Tour[http://www.lpga.com/content/All-timeWinnersList.pdf LPGA All-Time Winners List] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229053926/http://www.lpga.com/content/All-timeWinnersList.pdf |date=December 29, 2010 }} in 1997 after 313 LPGA Tour starts.[http://www.lpga.com/content/Chronology90-99.pdf LPGA Tournament Chronology 1990-99] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070920192212/http://www.lpga.com/content/Chronology90-99.pdf |date=September 20, 2007 }} She also has 31 top-10s on the LPGA Tour. She has also won three times on the Legends Tour and played in the Legends Tour Handa Cup in 2008. Her career earnings exceed two million dollars.{{cite web |url=http://www.lpga.com/content/2012PlayerBiosPDF/Figg-Currier,Cindy-12.pdf |title=Cindy Figg-Currier - player profile |publisher=LPGA.com |accessdate=January 29, 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Figg-Currier is currently a board member for The First Tee of Greater Austin.
Professional wins (5)
=LPGA Tour wins (1)=
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!No.!! Date!!Tournament!!Winning score!!Margin of |
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|Sep 1, 1997 |–16 (69-63-68=200) |Playoff |{{flagicon|CAN}} Lorie Kane |
LPGA Tour playoff record (1–0)
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!No.!!Year!!Tournament!!Opponents!!Result |
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|1 |1997 |{{flagicon|CAN}} Lorie Kane |Won with birdie on first extra hole |
=Legends Tour (3)=
- 2008 BJ's Charity Championship (with Sherri Turner), Wendy's Charity Challenge
- 2010 Wendy's Charity Classic
=Other wins (1)=
- 2010 Texas Women's Open
Team appearances
Professional
- Handa Cup (representing the United States): 2008 (winners), 2012 (tie, Cup retained), 2013
References
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External links
- {{LPGA Tour player|cindy-figg-currier/80627}}
- {{LPGA Futures Tour player|cindy-figg-currier/80627}}
- {{Legends Tour player|id=cindy-figg-currier|old_id=138}}
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Category:American female golfers
Category:Texas Longhorns women's golfers
Category:Golfers from Michigan
Category:Golfers from Austin, Texas
Category:Sportspeople from Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Category:People from Lakeway, Texas
Category:Sportspeople from Travis County, Texas
Category:20th-century American sportswomen
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