Ashley Prange
Encyclopedia
Ashley Prange is a professional golfer
and winner of the reality television
program The Big Break V: Hawaii
.
. She graduated from the University of North Carolina
in 2004 with a degree in Marketing and Advertising. She won three events and recorded 15 top-10 finishes during her career at UNC. She was a 2003 NCAA All-America
Honorable Mention and 2004 NCAA First-Team All-American.
in 2006. She won two Futures Tour
events in 2006. In 2007, she became a non-exempt member of the LPGA Tour and competed that year on both the LPGA Tour and the Futures Tour. She failed to perform well enough to retain her LPGA Tour playing privileges and in 2008 was back playing on the Futures Tour full-time.
Prange became engaged in July 2008 to Brian Snyder, a professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres.
Professional golfer
In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who breaches the rules of amateur status may lose his or her amateur status. A golfer who has lost his or her amateur status may not play in amateur competitions until amateur status has been reinstated;...
and winner of the reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
program The Big Break V: Hawaii
The Big Break V: Hawaii
The Big Break V: Hawaii was the fifth edition of The Golf Channel's reality television competition program, The Big Break. The show's premise is to award aspiring golf professionals exemptions into event on major tours, eliminating one contestant each week through a series of challenges until only...
.
College and amateur career
Prange was born in Newport Beach, CaliforniaNewport Beach, California
Newport Beach, incorporated in 1906, is a city in Orange County, California, south of downtown Santa Ana. The population was 85,186 at the 2010 census.The city's median family income and property values consistently place high in national rankings...
. She graduated from the University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
in 2004 with a degree in Marketing and Advertising. She won three events and recorded 15 top-10 finishes during her career at UNC. She was a 2003 NCAA All-America
All-America
An All-America team is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players—those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply...
Honorable Mention and 2004 NCAA First-Team All-American.
Professional career
Prange won the Golf Channel's The Big Break V: HawaiiThe Big Break V: Hawaii
The Big Break V: Hawaii was the fifth edition of The Golf Channel's reality television competition program, The Big Break. The show's premise is to award aspiring golf professionals exemptions into event on major tours, eliminating one contestant each week through a series of challenges until only...
in 2006. She won two Futures Tour
FUTURES Tour
The LPGA Futures Tour, previously styled in uppercase as FUTURES Tour and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed FUTURES Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour...
events in 2006. In 2007, she became a non-exempt member of the LPGA Tour and competed that year on both the LPGA Tour and the Futures Tour. She failed to perform well enough to retain her LPGA Tour playing privileges and in 2008 was back playing on the Futures Tour full-time.
Personal life
Prange credits her father Bob Prange, who has been her “main influence, backbone and rock,” as the individual most influencing her career.http://www.lpga.com/content/2007PlayerBiosPDF/Prange-07.pdfPrange became engaged in July 2008 to Brian Snyder, a professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres.
Futures Tour (2)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mar 19, 2006 2006 Duramed FUTURES Tour The 2006 Duramed FUTURES Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through September 2006 in the United States. The FUTURES Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour.-2006... |
Greater Tampa Duramed FUTURES Classic Greater Tampa Duramed FUTURES Classic The Greater Tampa Duramed FUTURES Classic was an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the FUTURES Tour, the LPGA's developmental tour. The event was a part of the FUTURES Tour's schedule from 2003 through 2007. In 2003 it was played at Rogers Park Golf Course. In 2004 and 2005... |
2 strokes |  Stephanie George |
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| 2 | Jul 2, 2006 2006 Duramed FUTURES Tour The 2006 Duramed FUTURES Tour was a series of professional women's golf tournaments held from March through September 2006 in the United States. The FUTURES Tour is the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and is the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour.-2006... |
Northwest Indiana FUTURES Golf Classic | 1 stroke | Lori Atsedes Lori Atsedes Lori Atsedes is an American golfer, currently playing on the Futures Tour. She is the all-time career money leader on the Futures Tour.Atsedes was born in Rochester, New York and raised in Ithaca, New York... |