Heather Daly-Donofrio
Professional Career
• In 2009, was promoted to Director of Media Relations in the LPGA Communications
Department
• In 2008, best finish was a tie for 15th at the Navistar LPGA Classic Presented by
MaxxForce.
• In 2007, best finish was a tie for 14th at the Fields Open in Hawaii.
• In 2006, best finish was a tie for 26th at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay; competed in
just four events before the birth of her daughter, Hannah Daly Howell.
• In 2005, best finish was fifth place at The Mitchell Company Tournament
of Champions presented by Kathy Ireland Worldwide.
• In 2004, won The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions, where she carded
a career-low 64 during the third round; recorded her first LPGA career hole-in-one
during the second round of the Kellogg-Keebler Classic.
• In 2003, recorded a season-best finish at the Longs Drugs Challenge, where she
tied for 23rd.
• In 2002, tied for seventh at both the Welch’s/Circle K Championship and The Office
Depot Championship Hosted by Amy Alcott.
• In 2001, became a Rolex First-Time Winner at the First Union Betsy King Classic.
• In 2000, tied for sixth at the State Farm Rail Classic; returned to the LPGA Final
Qualifying Tournament, where she tied for ninth to earn exempt status for the 2001
LPGA season.
• In 1999, tied for 14th at the Philips Invitational Honoring Harvey Penick.
• In 1998, best finish was a tie for fifth at the Friendly’s Classic.
• In 1997, qualified for the Tour on her fifth attempt, tying for fifth at the LPGA Final
Qualifying Tournament to earn exempt status for the 1997 LPGA season.
• From 1995-97, won four tournaments on the Futures Tour.
• In 1993, turned professional.
Amateur
Daly-Donofrio captured two Connecticut Women’s Golf Association Championships (1992-93). She participated in the 1993 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship and was a member of the Yale University golf team for four years.
LPGA Victories, Awards, Etc.
LPGA Victories (2): 2001 First Union Betsy King Classic; 2004 The Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions.
LPGA Awards (1): 2005 William and Mousie Powell Award. |