Vikki Laing

Amateur career Laing is from Musselburgh, Scotland, and represented Europe in the 1997 Junior Ryder Cup and represented Great Britain & Ireland in the 2002 Curtis Cup. Representing Scotland, she finished third individually at the 1997 European Young Masters. She attended University of California, Berkeley where she won her first tournament in the fall of her freshman year, becoming just the third Bear women's golfer to earn individual medalist honors at the time. She captured the individual Pac-10 Championship title as a senior in 2003 and later earned second-team All-America recognition, the first Golden Bear to receive the honor. A two-time first-team All-Pac-10 choice, she made the all-region team as a senior. She helped the California Golden Bears to their first three berths at the NCAA Championships 2001–2003 and to the 2003 NCAA Central Regional title. In 2016, she was inducted into the California Athletics Hall of Fame.

Professional career Laing turned professional in 2003 but a limiting category led to a frustrating year on the 2004 LPGA Tour, where she were first alternate on four occasions without getting in and on her debut at the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic she missed the cut by one shot. She got the opportunity to tee it up for the second time at the State Farm Rail Classic in Springfield, Illinois, where she made her first LPGA Tour cut. In 2005 she played just 8 LPGA tournaments.

In 2006 she dropped down to play on the Duramed Futures Tour (later renamed Symetra Tour), the second-tier women's professional golf tour in the United States and the "official developmental tour" of the LPGA Tour. In 2007 she had her first professional career win, in The Gettysburg Championship. She also finished runner-up at the 2007 Betty Puskar Golf Classic and the 2008 Duramed Invitational, one stroke behind Vicky Hurst.

In 2009, Laing joined the Ladies European Tour where she had her best season in 2010, finishing runner-up at the Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open and the Finnair Masters, both behind Lee-Anne Pace, and ended the season in 10th spot on the Order of Merit. In 2011, she was runner-up at the Sanya Ladies Open, a tournament co-sanctioned by the China LPGA Tour, Ladies Asian Golf Tour and the LET.

Laing participated in the "Australian Swing", and on the ALPG Tour finished runner-up at the 2014 Women's Victorian Open and 2015 New South Wales Women's Open. Following the tournament she rose to a career high of 143 on the Women's World Golf Rankings, and she featured in the top 150 also in 2010 and 2015. 2003 Pac-10 Championship

Professional wins Futures Tour (1)

Team appearances Amateur Junior Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 1997 European Young Masters (representing Scotland): 1997 European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Scotland): 2001, 2003 Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2002 Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2003 (winners)