Lorena Ochoa was the best golfer in the world for 157 consecutive weeks from April 2007 to April 2010. She began her successful career in May 2002, she won 27 LPGA tournaments including two Majors Women’s British Open in 2007 and Kraft Nabisco Championship in 2008.

From 2006 to 2009 she won the Rolex Player of the Year Award. She has been recognized by the ESPY Awards as best golfer in 2009 and 2010, and as best international athlete in 2009. She was the absolute winner of the National Sports Award in 2001, 2006 and 2007, and three times Player of the Year by the Golf Writers Association of America in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Since 2008, she is the host of the best golf tournament in Latin America “Lorena Ochoa Invitational Presented by Banamex” where 36 of the best golfers in the world compete.

Since 2010, Lorena paused her professional sports career to devote more time to her Foundation and other altruistic activities of the like, the design of golf courses and personal projects. She maintains current interest in spreading the practice of golf in Mexico through her academy Ochoa Golf Academy in Acapulco and in California, USA; she also supports playing golf in the US by means of the Lorena Ochoa Golf Foundation.