Player Biography

VICKY HURST Birthdate: June 19, 1990 Birthplace: Washington, D.C. Age: 17 Home: Melbourne, Fla.
Player Notes: Runner-up at the 2006 U.S. Girls’ Junior…Also competed at the 2005 U.S. Women’s Amateur…Won the 2007 Birks & Mayors AGJA … won the 2007 Dixie Amateur … runner up at the 2007 AJGA Thunderbird Invitational …played in the 2006 U.S. Women's Open at Newport (R.I.) Country Club for which she qualified in Orlando, Fla. during Tropical Storm Alberto. Competed in the 2005 U.S. Girls' Junior… won the 2005 Florida State Junior Girls Championship...Won the AJGA Mirasol and the AJGA Mizuno (2006) ... 2005 Florida Junior Tour Player of the Year and 2005 Florida Women's State Golf Association Jr. Player of the Year...Florida Today Newspaper Spaceport Player of the Year...Low score is 62, shot in 2005 High School Districts... mother is Koko … has one sister, Kelly…Qualified for 2007 Women's Open at the Country Club of Heathrow (Fla.) with a 137 total… Started playing golf at age 5 due to her parents' influence … her late father, Joe, who died in April of 2006 due to complications from a stroke, cited his favorite championships as the U.S. Open and Women's Open. … Favorite golfer was Payne Stewart … when she plays, wears similar hats that Stewart wore; friends will send them to her … says that her greatest golf moment was playing in the Women's Open at Newport C.C., where Pat Hurst introduced herself because they share the same last name and told her not to be nervous and to revel in the moment.