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Tomko: Former Blue Devil Finishes 30th On LPGA Money List
DURHAM, N.C. -- The LPGA’s 30th ranked golfer hasn’t picked up a golf club since Nov. 16 as she rest following her most productive season on tour. Brittany Lang competed on the Duke women’s golf teams from 2003-2005 before turning professional in 2006.
“I usually don’t touch a golf club until January 1,” Lang said. “From the end of my season until January 1 I don’t play golf. I spend a lot of time in the gym doing all kinds of weight training, cardio training, stretching, core training, and all kinds of stuff like that.”
Until the turn of the new year, Lang, who finished the 2008 season 30th on the money list earning $630,294, resides at her home in McKinney, Texas, just outside of Dallas, with her family in the city she has called home for the past 12 years.
The over $630,000 earned on the year by Lang is the most ever for a former women’s golfer at Duke. The Duke standout excelled from the start when she turned pro in 2006 finishing 21st on the money earning $516,994. In 2007 she earned $348,148 giving her a career total of $1,516,994.
Lang competed in 28 Tournaments during the 2008 season with her parents traveling to most venues to watch their 23-year old daughter compete against the best competition in the world.
Lang tied for second in two tournaments, the most recent coming in her final tournament of the season, the Lorena Ochoa Invitational shooting 12-under par. Earlier in the season she fired nine-under par at the Sybase Classic in New Jersey. She was also pleased with her fifth place finish in the SemGroup Championship held in Oklahoma under some tough conditions.
“I just had a really good year,” Lang said. “I felt like I played very steady, very solid all year round.”
She ended her 2008 season making 23-of-28 cuts finishing in the top 10 eight times, while boasting a 71.79 scoring average for the season, as well as ending the year in the top 10 in both total eagles (10) and greens hit (.681) while finishing 15th in driving average (259.7).
Born in Richmond, Va., Lang started playing golf at the age of 9 and credits her family for influencing and supporting her career.
“They enjoy coming out so they come out to quite a few of them,” Lang said.
Her older brother, Luke, a former all-conference golfer for Arkansas Tech, caddies for his sister at each tournament since she turned pro.
Despite the two of them spending time on a golf course frequently, the pair rarely competes against each other on the course.
“We haven’t played together in a long time,” Lang said. “In the offseason he goes out and plays a bunch when I take my time off. When I don’t want to play he wants to play.”
When they do share the course together it is mostly to goof around instead of being a competitive meeting.
“When I come home and practice in season he will go up to the golf course with me and we will play funny games,” Lang said. “He will use two golf clubs and I will use all mine and make a bet, doing silly stuff like that. He is a very good player so we have fun with that.”
Lang prefers to stay away from the game of golf once the season is over, instead content with her life revolving around family and heading to the gym frequently to do cardio and weight training exercises.
“Every morning I train for a couple hours,” she said. “I am pretty serious about my workouts in the off season because I don’t have golf. I work out a bunch. I hang out with my family a lot. I like being at home spending time with my family.”
Having her family by her side during the season also helps her to relax after playing tournaments in back-to-back-to-back weeks during the year.
“If I’m at a tournament I usually go to the gym and work out,” She said. “That relieves a lot of stress and tension. I work out a bunch. My family is usually with me so I like to go out to dinner with them when I am on the road.”
Over her career at Duke Lang was a two-time NGCA First Team All-America, became Duke’s second National Freshman of the Year selection, a two-time ACC Individual Champion, ranks tied for third in the Duke record books with six victories and is only the fourth Duke freshman to earn NGCA first team All-America accolades.
“I think everything at Duke really helps you get ready for the tour life,” Lang said. “Especially for an athlete at Duke there are a lot of demands with classes, with practice and with golf. It is kind of the same thing out on tour. You have a lot going on and you have to learn how to manage everything.”
Lang’s most vivid memory of her time spent at Duke came back in her sophomore season when Duke won the NCAA’s in Oregon.
“We won NCAA’s and that was pretty exciting,” Lang said. “It was terrible weather but a beautiful venue. It was really cool to win a team event like that. It was special.”
She will stay in Texas through the holidays spending Christmas Eve with family and friends from around her neighborhood, then on Christmas Day hang out with her mom, dad and brother as they celebrate a traditional family Christmas.
“I’ll start up again in January practicing,” Lang said. “That will give me a month and a half, and I go out to Arizona to work with my sports psychologist for a couple weeks, get some good weather and work with them for a couple weeks before the season starts.”
