JAMIE FISCHER

Birthdate: May 26, 1968

Birth Place: Centerville, Ohio

Age: 41 - Ht.: 5’7"

Home: Gurnee, Ill.

College: Texas

Turned Professional: 1990

Player Notes:

Is the teaching and club professional at Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, Ill. Her mother, Andy Cohn-Fischer played on the LPGA Tour in the 1960s. Passion for teaching golf came from intertaction with Harvey Penick, Dick Harmon, Chuck Cook and Jim McLean.

Has been involved in the game of golf since a very early age. Growing up in Ohio under the tutelage of her mother Andy (an LPGA Tour Professional), she was a two-time Ohio Junior Champion and qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open at age 18. While attending The University of Texas and earning two Bachelor’s Degrees in Speech Communication and Journalism, she captained the top-ten ranked Women’s Golf Team, was the 1991 Southwest Conference Champion, and named an Academic All-American. From graduation until 1995 she played professionally both in the United States and abroad on the Future’s Tour, Asian Tour, Australian Tour, and earned playing status on the European Tour.

In 1995, due to shoulder injury, she turned her attention to teaching full time. She was the first teaching professional at Nantucket Golf Club upon its inception in 1998 and a Master Instructor at the Jim McLean Golf School. She taught at the Todd Sones Impact Golf School from 2002-2007. She also served as the Assistant Women’s Golf Coach at Northwestern University from 2003-2005.

In 2004 she was inducted into the inaugural class of Centerville (Ohio) High School Athletic Hall of Fame, as the only person to letter in five different sports. She is a three-time and current LPGA Midwest Section Champion and competed in the 2006 and 2007 McDonald’s LPGA Championship becoming the first member to the Teaching Division to make the cut in 10 years. In February of 2007, she was chosen to Golf For Women Magazine’s Top 50 Teacher’s List.