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"&amp;amp;#8220;With talent, confidence and class, she&amp;amp;#8217;s a champion in golf and in life.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8212;Billie Jean King, Sports legend, a 2006 Woman of the YearBy Shaun Dreisbach When Lorena Ochoa was five years old, she fell 15 feet out of a tree house in her backyard in Guadalajara, Mexico, and broke both of her wrists. She was a fledgling golfer at the time and might have seen this as a crushing setback. But not little Lorena. After the casts came off, she got back on the green and went on to win her first state event&amp;amp;#8212;and sweetly told her doctor she believed he had given her &amp;amp;#8220;magic wrists.&amp;amp;#8221; Now at 26, Ochoa is the number-one-ranked female golfer in the world. &amp;amp;#8220;The more pressure she&amp;amp;#8217;s under, the stronger she gets,&amp;amp;#8221; Ochoa&amp;amp;#8217;s brother and manager, Alejandro, has said of her. Her history-making performance at the Ricoh Women&amp;amp;#8217;s British Open this August proved how well he knows his sister. With a very pretty putt at the Old Course at St Andrews Links golf course, she scored a huge success for herself and all women: Until then, no woman had ever played&amp;amp;#8212;let alone won&amp;amp;#8212;a pro tournament at the oldest and most famous golf course in the world. &amp;amp;#8220;I&amp;amp;#8217;m glad I lived long enough to see this triumph,&amp;amp;#8221; says LPGA cofounder Louise Suggs, 84, who claims that back in the day she once saw a sign outside a clubhouse at St Andrews that read &amp;amp;#8220;no dogs or women allowed.&amp;amp;#8221; [A representative from The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews denies such a sign existed.] It&amp;amp;#8217;s a victory Ochoa felt in her gut was hers before the event had even started. &amp;amp;#8220;Before the tournament I stood on the eighteenth green and I knew it was my trophy,&amp;amp;#8221; she says. &amp;amp;#8220;Then I enjoyed playing, and just let it happen.&amp;amp;#8221; At press time, she had already won six LPGA events in the 2007 season&amp;amp;#8212;one more and she&amp;amp;#8217;ll tie Tiger Woods. To quote one LPGA insider: &amp;amp;#8220;The woman is on fire this year.&amp;amp;#8221; And at a time when so many superstar athletes have made headlines for less-than-sporting behavior (women included), Ochoa is widely viewed by peers and competitors alike as a true role model. She is famously humble&amp;amp;#8212;at tournaments, she likes to visit with the courses&amp;amp;#8217; greenskeepers. And in 2004, she started the Lorena Ochoa Foundation, which enables 240 disadvantaged children in her hometown to get an education. She&amp;amp;#8217;s also opened two golf academies with the goal of making the sport accessible to all kids&amp;amp;#8212;boys and girls. This, Ochoa says, is the real legacy she wants to leave behind: &amp;amp;#8220;To see the effect I can have on a child&amp;amp;#8217;s life means so much more to me than winning.&amp;amp;#8221;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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