Born in Bristol in 1966, Trish Johnson was South Western Champion as an novice in 1983 and 1984. She was additionally each England Beneath-23 and Beneath-21 champion in 1984, and in 1985, she gained the English Ladies’s Novice Championship, the English Ladies’s Stroke Play Championship, and gained the England Beneath-23 title as soon as once more.
In 1986, she represented GB&I within the Espirito Santo Trophy, World Novice Golf Staff Championships and the Curtis Cup, the latter the place she gained most factors.
In March 1987, Johnson turned professional and gained three tournaments in her first 12 months, being named Rookie of the Yr on the Girls European Tour.She gained 4 occasions in 1990 and the Order of Advantage, earlier than happening to win an general 19 tournaments on the Girls European Tour.
Johnson completed within the top-10 of the Girls European Tour Order of Advantage 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 group on eight events from 1990 by means of 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 gained 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 mentioned: “I’m over the moon to obtain such a prestigious honour, only for being fortunate sufficient to play the sport I really like! My solely remorse is that my mum and pop usually are not right here to see it, however I do know they’ll be wanting down with an enormous smile on their faces, proud as punch!!”
