Laura Davies was born on 5 October 1963 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, and took up the game as a child before compiling a strong amateur record that included a place on the 1984 Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup team. She turned professional in 1985, a path documented in her official LPGA player profile and in her biography on Wikipedia.

In her rookie professional season on what is now the Ladies European Tour, Davies won both Rookie of the Year and the Order of Merit, an immediate breakthrough recorded by Golf Monthly’s career retrospective. She built on that form quickly, and by 1987 was competing regularly against the best American players on the LPGA Tour.

Davies’s defining breakthrough came in 1987, when she won an 18-hole playoff to capture the U.S. Women’s Open, becoming one of the first British golfers to win a major championship on American soil. The victory, confirmed by her LPGA profile, turned her from a promising European talent into a genuine global star and opened the door to regular LPGA Tour membership.

Over the following decade Davies added three more major titles: the Women’s PGA Championship in 1994 and 1996, and the du Maurier Classic in 1996. She went on to record 86 professional wins worldwide, including 20 on the LPGA Tour and a tour-record 45 on the Ladies European Tour, and won the LET Order of Merit seven times. She played all twelve Solheim Cups from 1990 to 2011 and holds the competition’s all-time points record, achievements catalogued in detail on Wikipedia, which also notes her 2015 induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, an event reported at the time by Golf Business News.

Davies’s induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame was confirmed in early 2015 and formally recognised at a ceremony that July, reported at the time by Sky Sports. She was appointed MBE in 1988, CBE in 2000 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2014 for services to women’s golf, and became the first female honorary member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 2015. She has continued to appear at the top level of the women’s game as a Solheim Cup vice-captain, most recently for Europe’s 2024 team under captain Suzann Pettersen, a role confirmed by the LPGA.

Davies signed a three-year equipment deal with Lynx Golf in January 2015, described by Golf Business News as recognition of her status as one of the leading players in the women’s game, and she has carried other equipment and apparel partnerships across a career spanning four decades. Terms of her sponsorship agreements, including the Lynx deal, have not been publicly disclosed, so their exact contribution to her overall wealth cannot be verified beyond the fact that such partnerships were in place.

Since stepping back from full-time competitive golf, Davies has built a corporate speaking and events business, running pro-am golf days, media appearances and podcast interviews through her management, as advertised on the official Laura Davies Golf website. She has also worked for many years as a golf broadcaster, joining the BBC’s commentary team in 2001 before moving into further TV analyst work, giving her a long-running secondary income stream alongside tournament golf. None of this activity has been reported as amounting to a disclosed equity stake in an outside company.

Davies has lived for many years in Ottershaw, Surrey, England, a detail confirmed in her Wikipedia biography and repeated in Golf Monthly’s profile of her career and personal life. Neither source, nor any other public record identified for this article, discloses the value of her home, any additional property, or her investment holdings, so her property and major assets beyond her documented income history are not publicly available.