Penny Grice-Whittaker

In 1964, Grice-Whittaker was born in Sheffield, England. She began to play golf when she was thirteen.^[2]

Grice-Whittaker began her amateur career as a runner-up at the 1981 Girls Amateur Championship.^[3] As an amateur, Grice-Whittaker won her first amateur events in Yorkshire between 1981 and 1983.^[4] At events held by England Golf, Grice-Whittaker won the 1983 English Girls' Open Championship and the 1984 English Women's Strokeplay.^[5][6] In amateur team events held in 1984, Grice-Whittaker was a participant at the Curtis Cup and a bronze medalist at the Espirito Santo Trophy for the Great Britain and Ireland team.^[7][8]

After turning professional in 1985, Grice-Whittaker played on the Ladies European Tour. Her first win was at the 1986 Belgian Ladies Open with a course record of seventeen under par.^[4][9] During the 1990s, additional European wins for Grice-Whittaker came at the 1991 Women's British Open and the 1991 Longines Classic. Outside of the LET, Grice-Whittaker won the 1992 Hisiki Ladies Queensland Open on the Australian Ladies Professional Golf Tour.^[10][11]

In 1998, Grice-Whittaker ended her golf career to become a singer. In the early 2000s, she started singing as a member of the female musical duo Bits-n-Pieces.^[12]

On 8 October 2021, Grice-Whittaker appeared on The Chase. Chaser Paul Sinha remarked that she was the first person he'd faced on the show with a bigger Wikipedia entry than he had - aside from the Celebrity edition.

Amateur

• European Lady Junior's Team Championship (representing England): 1982, 1983 (winners), 1984, 1986^{[13][14][15][16]}
• Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1984
• Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Great Britain and Ireland): 1984
• European Ladies' Team Championship (representing England): 1983
• Women's Home Internationals (representing England): 1983, 1984 (winners)