Nancy López is one of the youngest women golfers to achieve professional success. Since 1978, she has consistently ranked among the top women players. She is one of only five women in the sport to have earned more than $1 million in her career. In addition, she has won over forty tournament victories. In 1987 she became the youngest woman ever to be named to the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Hall of Fame. The winner of 48 LPGA tournaments, López has taken her place as one of the greatest stars.

López was born in 1957 in Torrance, California, but raised in Roswell, New Mexico. She learned to play golf when her parents, Domingo and Marina López, took up the game for her mother's health. By the age of eleven, she was a better golfer than either of her parents, and her father was convinced...