Julie Inkster Biography
Juli Inkster's biography details a woman who has had a long, successful career in professional golf. She has risen through the ranks, and has earned close to twelve million dollars playing golf.
Juli Simpson was born in June of 1960 in California. She attended Harbor High School and later San Jose State University. She married another golfer and took the name Juli Inkster. She has two children, named Hayley and Cori.
Inkster was an All-American at San Jose State University in 1979, 1981 and 1982. In 1981 she was named Athlete of the Year by the University. She has also been inducted into their Hall of Fame. Inkster won the Women's Amateur Golf Championship in 1981, 1982 and 1983. She qualified for the professional LPGA tour in late 1983. She won both the Nabisco Dinah Shore and the du Maurier Classic her rookie year. She was the first rookie to ever win two big championships in their rookie season. Between 1984 and 1990, she won multiple championships, including the Lady Keystone Open and the Crestar Classic. She also won the Nabisco Dinah Shore championship for a second time. In 1990, her daughter Hayley was born. Due to this, she played a limited schedule and did not win any titles. As soon as she rejoined the tour full time, she began winning again. She won the LPGA Bay State Classic in 1991 and the JAL Big Apple Classic in 1992.
Her daughter, Cori, was born in 1994. She won the Samsung World Championship in 1997, which allowed her to pass the three million dollar mark in earnings for her career. In 1998, she had the first hole in one during her LPGA career, as well as earning her 17th career victory. Inkster had a great year in 1999, winning five titles. She was also inducted into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame as well as the World Golf Hall of Fame. She earned one million dollars that year, pushing her past five million dollars in career earnings.
She crossed the six million dollar career earnings in 2000 and in 2001, she won the Electrolux USA Championship. This was her 26th title. By 2003, she had earned over eight million dollars. That year she won the LPGA Corning Classic as well as the Evian Masters. She passed the nine million dollar mark in 2004 and had seven finishes in the top ten. She won the Safeway International in 2006 and crossed the eleven million dollar mark in career earnings.
In 2007, she had another seven top ten finishes. She also hit her second hole in one, and she competed for the seventh time on the U.S. Solheim Cup team. At the Women's World Cup of Golf, she represented the United States with Pat Hurst. She also traveled to Rwanda that year on a mission group with Golf Fore Africa.