Elizabeth Szokol

At age 14, Elizabeth Szokol was a competitive tennis player. Szokol lost some of the enjoyment she got out of tennis and decided to take up golf after several knee surgeries. She picked up the game quickly, but in her junior year of High School had another setback with more knee surgery. It took her a year to rehab and when she did won the 2012 Illinois Women's Amateur. Szokol went to Northwestern and that was when she really started to play good. The Winnetka, Ill., native spent two years at Northwestern University before transferring to the University of Virginia.
Szokol continued playing competitively in college, first at Northwestern and later at Virginia, where she was named an honorable mention All-American as a senior in 2016 by the Women's Golf Coaches Association. While she was racking up NCAA honors, she realized she might have an opportunity to make a living as a golfer. In 2017, less than a year after leaving Virginia she turned pro and joined the Symetra Tour. First few weeks were bumpy as she missed the cut in four of her first six starts. But things got better and she finished T-2nd at the Four Winds Invitational. She had a few more good finishes, 5th at the Danielle Downey Credit Union Classic a T-6th at the Garden City Charity Classic, and then another 5th place finish at the Guardian Championship, followed by a T-3rd at the IOA Golf Classic. So in 19 events in her first year, she made 12 cuts and finished 16th on the money list with $445,058.
2018 Notes. Played in 20 Symetra Tour events making 15 cuts with seven top-ten finishes. She collected her first win at the IOA Invitational and finished the year with $76,612 which placed her 4th on the money list. That was good enough for her to earn membership for the 2019 season.
2019 Notes: On her first year on the LPGA Tour, she played in 20 events making 10 cuts with one top-ten finish. She was 108th on the money list with $105,814 in earnings, she finished 102nd on the CME points list. Her best finish was T-6th at the Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open.
2020 Notes Played in 14 LPGA Tour events making seven cuts. Finished 83rd on the money list with $110,873 in earnings. Was 78th on the CME points list. Her best finish was 11th at the Pelican Womens Championship.
2021 Notes: Was T-7th at the Pure Silk Championship and then had her best finish on the LPGA Tour. She finished T-2nd in the rain-shortened Marathon Classic. With rounds of 67-66-67 was six shots back of winner Nasa Hataoka.