Lee-Anne Pace

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|2|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paarl, South Africa

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| spouse = Anne-Lise Caudal

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| college = Murray State University,
University of Tulsa

| yearpro = 2005

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| tour = Ladies European Tour

| extour = LPGA Tour
Futures Tour

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| lpgawins = 1

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| nabisco = T14: 2016

| lpga = T30: 2023

| wusopen = T43/43: 2014, 2017

| wbritopen = T17: 2016

| evian = T6: 2015

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| award1 = Ladies European Tour
Order of Merit winner

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| award2 = Ladies European Tour
Player of the Year

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Lee-Anne Pace (born 15 February 1981) is a South African professional golfer.

Career

Pace was born in Paarl, Western Cape.{{cite web |url=http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/main_article.php?id=64783&pid=1005 |title=Lee- Anne Pace on South Africa |publisher=Ladies European Tour |date=10 April 2013 |accessdate=19 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419012047/http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/main_article.php?id=64783&pid=1005 |archive-date=19 April 2014 |url-status=dead }} She had a successful amateur collegiate career in the United States, where she attended Murray State University and the University of Tulsa, graduating with a degree in psychology.

Having turned professional in 2005, Pace played on the second tier Duramed Futures Tour in 2006 before qualifying for the LPGA Tour for 2007 at qualifying school. Having lost her card in the United States at the end of 2007, she qualified for the Ladies European Tour for 2008 via qualifying school. She made her breakthrough in 2010 with five wins at the Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open, the S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe,{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/8915879.stm |title=Lee-Anne Pace secures Wales Ladies triumph |work=BBC Sport |date=15 August 2010 |accessdate=29 August 2010}} the Finnair Masters, the Sanya Ladies Open, and the Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open. She ended the season at the top of the Order of Merit{{cite news |url=http://www.iol.co.za/sport/golf/pace-wins-order-of-merit-1.1000141?showComments=true |title=Pace wins Order of Merit |work=Independent Online (South Africa) |date=11 December 2010 |accessdate=3 February 2011}} and won the LET Player of the Year.

After failing to win in 2012, Pace had another big season in 2013. Pace won her sixth Ladies European Tour event in May when she took a one stroke victory at the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open. She followed that victory up with another in July, again winning by a stroke, at the Open De España Femenino. She concluded the 2013 season by winning in a playoff at the Sanya Ladies Open. The victory was her eighth on tour and netted her a second LET Player of the Year award. In October 2014, Pace would win her ninth LET event when she was victorious in her home country, winning the Cell C South African Women's Open, in a playoff, after a final round comeback. A week later, Pace won her first LPGA Tour event at the Blue Bay LPGA in China.

Personal life

In January 2024, Pace married fellow LET player Anne-Lise Caudal at a ceremony held in Yzerfontein, South Africa.{{cite web |title=Pace And Caudal Tie The Knot In South Africa |url=https://ladieseuropeantour.com/blog/pace-and-caudal-tie-the-knot-in-south-africa |publisher=Ladies European Tour |access-date=2 February 2024}} The two became acquainted when Pace first started competing on the LET in 2008.{{cite web |title=Friendship put aside for Cape Town showdown |url=https://www.news24.com/sport/friendship-put-aside-for-cape-town-showdown-20200120 |publisher=News24 |access-date=2 February 2024 |date=20 January 2020}}

Amateur wins

2003 Ohio Valley Conference Championship
2005 Western Athletic Conference Championship

Professional wins (23)

=LPGA Tour wins (1)=

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!No.

!Date

!Tournament

!Winning score

!Margin of
victory

!Runner-up

1

|26 Oct 2014

|Blue Bay LPGA

|−16 (67-66-67=200)

|3 strokes

|{{flagicon|DEU}} Caroline Masson

=Ladies European Tour wins (11)=

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!No.

!Date

!Tournament

!Winning score

!Margin of
victory

!Runner(s)-up

1

|20 Jun 2010

|Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open

|−12 (69-67-68=204)

|1 stroke

|{{flagicon|SCO}} Vikki Laing

2

|15 Aug 2010

|S4C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe

|−6 (74-71-67-70=282)

|3 strokes

|{{flagicon|ENG}} Melissa Reid
{{flagicon|NED}} Christel Boeljon

3

|29 Aug 2010

|Finnair Masters

|−14 (66-64-69=199)

|3 strokes

|{{flagicon|SCO}} Vikki Laing

4

|24 Oct 2010

|Sanya Ladies Open

|−11 (68-71-66=205)

|1 stroke

|{{flagicon|AUT}} Stefanie Michl

5

|31 Oct 2010

|Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open

|−5 (71-72-68=211)

|Playoff

|{{flagicon|USA}} Hannah Jun
{{flagicon|PAR}} Julieta Granada
{{flagicon|NED}} Christel Boeljon

6

|12 May 2013

|Turkish Airlines Ladies Open

|−3 (70-77-70-72=289)

|1 stroke

|{{flagicon|FIN}} Minea Blomqvist
{{flagicon|ESP}} Carlota Ciganda
{{flagicon|ENG}} Charley Hull

7

|21 Jul 2013

|Open De España Femenino

|−13 (67-69-68-71=275)

|1 stroke

|{{flagicon|SWE}} Mikaela Parmlid

8

|27 Oct 2013

|Sanya Ladies Open

|−13 (67-66-70=203)

|Playoff

|{{flagicon|CHN}} Yu Yang Zhang

9

|19 Oct 2014

|Cell C South African Women's Open¹

|−5 (71-73-67=211)

|Playoff

|{{flagicon|ENG}} Holly Clyburn

10

|16 May 2021

|Investec South African Women's Open¹

| +2 (70-75-73-72=290)

|1 stroke

|{{flagicon|GER}} Leonie Harm

11

|2 Apr 2022

|Investec South African Women's Open¹

|E (71-73-74-70=288)

|Playoff

|{{flagicon|ARG}} Magdalena Simmermacher

¹Co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Ladies Tour

=Sunshine Ladies Tour (14)=

2013-2014 (1) Investec Ladies Cup
2014-2015 (4) South African Women's Open¹, Ladies Tshwane Open, SuperSport Ladies Challenge, Investec Ladies Cup
2015-2016 (4) South African Women's Open, Joburg Ladies Open, Cape Town Ladies Open, Dimension Data Ladies Challenge
2017 (1) Chase to Investec Cup Final
2018 (1) Cape Town Ladies Open
2020 (1) Cape Town Ladies Open
2021 (1) Investec South African Women's Open¹
2022 (1) Investec South African Women's Open¹

¹Co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour

Results in LPGA majors

Results not in chronological order.

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!! Tournament !!2008

2009 !! 2010 !! 2011 !! 2012 !! 2013 !! 2014 !! 2015 !! 2016 !! 2017 !! 2018 !! 2019 !! 2020 !! 2021 !! 2022 !! 2023 !! 2024

align=left|Chevron Championship

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|T70

|CUT

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|CUT

|T69

|T14

|CUT

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align=left|U.S. Women's Open

|style="background:#eeeeee;"|

|T55

|CUT

|style="background:#eeeeee;"|

|T43

|T56

|CUT

|43

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|T64

|style="background:#eeeeee;"|

align=left|Women's PGA Championship

|style="background:#eeeeee;"|

|CUT

|T62

|WD

|T64

|DQ

|CUT

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|T30

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align=left|The Evian Championship ^

|style="background:#eeeeee;" colspan=5|

|style="background:#eeeeee;"|

|T54

|style="background:yellow;"|T6

|T43

|T48

|CUT

|style="background:#eeeeee;"|

|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT

|CUT

|style="background:#eeeeee;"|

align=left|Women's British Open

|CUT

|style="background:#eeeeee;"|

|CUT

|T39

|T25

|T29

|T24

|T17

|CUT

|style="background:#eeeeee;"|

|T32

|WD

|65

|CUT

|T55

^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013.

CUT = missed the half-way cut

DQ = disqualified

WD = withdrew

NT = no tournament

T = tied

=Summary=

Totals	0	0	0	0	1	5	41	23
class=wikitable style=text-align:center !Tournament !! Wins !! 2nd !! 3rd !! Top-5 !! Top-10 !! Top-25 !! Events !! Cuts made
align=left\|Chevron Championship	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	3
align=left\|U.S. Women's Open	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	5
align=left\|Women's PGA Championship	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	3
align=left\|The Evian Championship	0	0	0	0	1	1	7	4
align=left\|Women's British Open	0	0	0	0	0	3	14	8

Most consecutive cuts made – 7 (2014 Evian – 2016 ANA)
Longest streak of top-10s – 1

Team appearances

Amateur

Espirito Santo Trophy (representing South Africa): 2002, 2004

References

External links

{{LPGA player|lee-anne-pace/82863}}
{{LadiesEuroTour player|130065}}
{{WWGR|2496}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110722061440/http://www.tulsahurricane.com/sports/w-golf/mtt/pace_leeanne00.html Lee-Anne Pace] at the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane official site

Category:South African female golfers

Category:LPGA Tour golfers

Category:Ladies European Tour golfers

Category:Murray State Racers women's golfers

Category:Tulsa Golden Hurricane women's golfers

Category:South African people of British descent

Category:Sportspeople from Paarl

Category:Golfers from the Western Cape

Category:1981 births

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century South African sportswomen