TIME names Lorena Ochoa in top 100
IN: News | 02 May 2008
LPGA Tour player and world number one Lorena Ochoa today joins an acclaimed list of individuals honoured in this year’s TIME 100.
As TIME managing editor Richard Stengel writes in his Letter to Readers, “The TIME 100 is not a list of the smartest, the most powerful, or the most talented—it is a thoughtful and sprightly survey of the most influential individuals in the world. Influence, like those other categories, is subjective, but you try to measure it in the effect people have on the world.”
The list recognizes the men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming our world, and the list is divided into five subsections: Leaders & Revolutionaries; Builders & Titans; Artists & Entertainers; Scientists & Thinkers; and Heroes & Icons.
Ochoa joins Andre Agassi, Lance Armstrong, Oprah Winfrey, Tony Blair, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and others in the Heroes & Pioneers subsection. While her performance on the golf course is dominant and record-breaking, it is her passion and dedication to those in need off the golf course for which she is being honored.
On learning of the honour, LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens remarked, “Lorena is a wonderful ambassador for our Tour, a true icon in Mexico, and a role model for women across the globe. We could not be happier for her, and we are delighted that through her placement in TIME others will now be touched by her spirit.”
Other honourees this year include US presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain, as well as music artists Mariah Carey and Bruce Springsteen, and business titans Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch.
