Mhairi McKay-Smith

Mhairi McKay-Smith

Professional Career

• In 2009, played a limited schedule due to the birth of son Angus Albert in April.
• In 2008, tied her career-low 63 in the first round of the Michelob ULTRA Open
    at Kingsmill; crossed the $2 million mark in career earnings at the LPGA
    Corning Classic.
• In 2007, tied her career-best finish at the Safeway Classic Presented by Pepsi,
    where she tied for second.
• In 2006, best finish was fourth place at the LPGA Corning Classic.
• In 2005 best finish was a tie for 28th at the Franklin American Mortgage
    Championship benefiting the Monroe Carell, Jr. Children’s Hospital at
    Vanderbilt; returned to the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament, where she tied for
    34th to earn nonexempt status for the 2006 LPGA season.
• In 2004, best finish was a tie for 13th at the McDonald’s LPGA Championship
    Presented by Coca-Cola.
• In 2003, recorded a career-best second-place finish at the Kellogg-Keebler Classic;
    was a member of the victorious European Solheim Cup Team, posting a
    1-1-0 record; won the AAMI Women’s Australian Open on the Ladies European Tour
    (LET), her second professional victory.
• In 2002, recorded seven top-10 finishes, including a tie for second at the
    Kellogg-Keebler Classic, finished sixth at the U.S. Women’s Open, her
    career-best finish in a major championship, and crossed the $1 million mark
    in career earnings; made her first Solheim Cup appearance as a captain’s pick
    for the European Team.
• In 2001, tied for second at both the LPGA Corning Classic and the First Union Betsy
    King Classic; carded a career-low 63 during the second round of the
    Wendy’s Championship for Children at New Albany; recorded her first LPGA career
    hole-in-one during the second round of the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic Presented
    by ALLTEL, where she tied for ninth.
• In 2000, best finish was eighth place at the Kathy Ireland Greens.com LPGA Classic.
• In 1999, recorded four top 20s, including a season-best tie for 14th at the New Albany
    Golf Classic.
• In 1998, best finish came at the U.S. Women’s Open, her first LPGA major, where
    she tied for seventh; joined the LET, and won her first professional event at the
    Praia d’El Rey European Cup.
• In 1997, turned professional in August; in June became the 10th player and
    first woman ever to ace the 16th hole at Cypress Point; qualified for the Tour by
    tying for 56th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn non-exempt status
    for the 1998 LPGA season.

Amateur

McKay won back-to-back British Girls Championships from 1992-93. In 1992, she set the 18-hole record of 67 at St. Andrew’s Old Course. She was a member of the Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup Team in 1994 and 1996 and competed in the World Team Championship in 1996. As a competitor on the Stanford University golf team, McKay earned All-American honors from 1994-97. She was the 1997 Pac-10 champion.

LPGA Victories, Awards, Etc.

The Solheim Cup (2): 2002, 2003.