Born in Bristol in 1966, Trish Johnson was South Western Champion as an novice in 1983 and 1984. She was additionally each England Below-23 and Below-21 champion in 1984, and in 1985, she received the English Ladies’s Novice Championship, the English Ladies’s Stroke Play Championship, and received the England Below-23 title as soon as once more.
In 1986, she represented GB&I within the Espirito Santo Trophy, World Novice Golf Crew Championships and the Curtis Cup, the latter the place she received most factors.
In March 1987, Johnson turned professional and received three tournaments in her first yr, being named Rookie of the 12 months on the Girls European Tour.She received 4 occasions in 1990 and the Order of Benefit, earlier than occurring to win an general 19 tournaments on the Girls European Tour.
Johnson completed within the top-10 of the Girls European Tour Order of Benefit on 13 events, together with 2nd place in 2000 and 2004, profitable the BMW Girls Italian Open in 2007. She additionally has three wins on the LPGA Tour together with the Las Vegas LPGA in 1993.
SOLHEIM CUP
A member of the European Solheim Cup staff on eight events from 1990 via to 2007, she additionally teamed up with Dame Laura Davies to characterize England on the 2007 Ladies’s World Cup of Golf.
In her senior profession, Johnson has received six occasions on the Legends Tour, together with three senior girls’s main golf championships – the 2017 and 2021 Senior LPGA Championship, and the 2023 US Senior Ladies’s Open.
On being appointed MBE, she stated: “I’m over the moon to obtain such a prestigious honour, only for being fortunate sufficient to play the sport I like! My solely remorse is that my mum and pa are usually not right here to see it, however I do know they’ll be trying down with an enormous smile on their faces, proud as punch!!”
