Virada Nirapathpongporn (born April 21, 1982 in
Bangkok, Thailand) is a golf champion who won the
2003 United States Women's Amateur Golf
Championship.
A graduate of Duke University with a degree in
psychology, she was voted the 2004 Nancy Lopez Award
as the world's top female amateur. She turned
professional at the end of that year to play on the
Futures Tour. In 2005, she won two tournaments. In
2006 she was an LPGA Tour rookie and wrote a blog
for lpga.com.
She currently resides in Orlando, FL and is a member
at Grand Cypress Golf Resort.
