5’5”...Started playing golf at the age of 8...Credits her parents ‘for encouraging me to play even after having back surgery’ as the individuals most influencing her career... From the age of 11, Lewis wore a back brace 18 hours per day for 7-1/2 years to correct curvature in her spine from scoliosis, removing it only to play golf…Had back surgery during her senior year of high school and redshirted for one season before joining the University of Arkansas women’s golf team…Traveled to Africa in 2011 with Besty King's Golf Fore Africa...Hobbies include working out, watching any sports especially SEC football, traveling and having spare time to herself...Qualified for the Tour on her first attempt…Has her own Web site, www.stacysback.com.
Career
Amateur
As a member of the University of Arkansas women’s golf team, Lewis won
12 collegiate events and was a four-time All-American. She was the 2005
Southeastern Conference (SEC) Freshman of the Year, the 2007 NCAA
Division I National Champion and the 2008 SEC Championship Individual
Medalist and Player of the Year. Away from collegiate competition, she
won the 2006 Harder Hall Invitational, the 2006 Western Amateur and was a
semi-finalist at the 2006 U.S. Women’s Amateur. She was the 2007
Southern Amateur Champion and the 2007 Dinah Shore Trophy Award
recipient. Lewis was also a member of the victorious U.S. Team at the
2007 at Copa de las Americas and on the victorious 2008 U.S. Curtis Cup
team, becoming the first player to go 5-0 in Curtis Cup history. Lewis
is a two-time Golfweek and Golf Digest Women’s Amateur Player of the
Year (2006-07) and was the top ranked amateur in the Golfweek/Titleist
Women’s Amateur Rankings in 2008.
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