Update: Roswell’s Gerina Mendoza
Sun Country Golf readers are asking who is Gerina Mendoza?
She’s the Roswell native who finished tied for 30th at the LPGA Q School in Daytona Beach, Fla., in early December and won partial status on the 2010 LPGA Tour.
It’s a fair question, since the New Mexico media largely seems to have ignored the achievements of both Katie Kempter and Mendoza, who battled a field of 106 players to compete for status on the 2010 LPGA Tour.
For just 24 years old, Mendoza has quite the star-powered resume.
She got her start at Goddard High School in Roswell and then played for and graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso. She played on the Duramed Futures Tour, official developmental tour of the LPGA, where in 2009 she played in 16 events, made 13 cuts and had three top-ten finishes.Her best performance was a tie for second. In 2008, she had four top ten finishes.
Mendoza was featured on the Golf Channel’s Big Break Prince Edward Island this year, where she gained a fan in the administrator of the website, “Chickipedia, the Wiki of Hot Women.”
(For a taste of the Chickipedia’s raison d’etre, click on this video, “Chickipedia vs. Wikipedia.”)
Mendoza was the individual winner of the 2003 New Mexico 4-4a golf championship, 2005 winner of the El Paso City Women’s Championship and the individual winner of the 2007 Conference USA Golf Championship.
Back in August, Mendoza was in a grocery store when her cell phone rang. It was LPGA Tour Legend Nancy Lopez, another Roswell native, calling to wish her luck. You can read an article about that phone call on the Futures Tour website.
