MEXICO CITY – Ana Menendez still remembers the first time she met Lorena Ochoa.
The Ladies European Tour pro and North Carolina State graduate was eleven years old then, an eager child in the presence of Ochoa, her idol and already one of the LPGA’s biggest stars.
“My dad took me to an autograph signing,” Menendez said. “Lorena asked me what I wanted her to sign. I had brought every single one of my caps. She smiled at me and signed them all.”
In time, Menendez found such anecdotes are more common than she might have thought about Ochoa, who on September 27 became the World Golf Hall of Fame’s youngest inductee at 35 years old.