Twenty-six-year-old Lorena Ochoa is well on her way to capturing her third straight Player of the Year title on the LPGA Tour, winning five of the seven events she’s entered this year, including four in a row during one stretch. The comparisons to Tiger Woods on the men’s tour are inevitable, but as WORLD’s Mark Bergin reports:

But for all that success, Ochoa appears refreshingly unimpressed with herself. She is wont to follow dominating performances with praise for her opponents and dips in nearby water hazards. That show of personality has endeared her to fellow Mexicans, who selected her Mexican of the Year in 2007 over President Felipe Calderón.

But her popularity back home has as much to do with what she does off the course as what she does on it. Ochoa, who makes church and Bible study a priority while she’s out on tour, has a Catholic foundation that operates an elementary school in an impoverished area near Guadalajara, and plans are underway to build a high school as well. Bergin writes, “[Ochoa] has always maintained that family life will trump golf one day, allowing time for her legacy off the course to meet or surpass her accomplishments on it. That’s a tall order.”

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