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Lorena Ochoa (Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1981) is the best Mexican golfer of all time. When she was only five she learned to hold the club and hit the ball, and at seven she had already won her first national title.

Thus began a career that has earned her 129 titles at state, national and international level; more than 27 of them obtained at the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). She reached the top of the world raking in 2007 and remained there for 158 consecutive weeks.Her career has been compared to that of legendary figures including Tiger Woods and Nancy López.

She received the National Sports Award for three consecutive years, from 2004 to 2007, and the ESPY Award for Best International Athlete in 2008. That same year she was included in the list of the World’s Most Powerful People by Forbes magazine and Times magazine placed her among the 100 most influential personalities in the world.

In 2017, she became the first Mexican, the first Latin American and one of the youngest women golfers to be distinguished as a member of the International Golf Hall of Fame.