[3] Her father had been raised on Long Island, New York, and attended Plainview High School, where he played for the golf team.

[3] She attended Coronita Elementary and then Corona High School, where she had a 4.0 GPA, starred on the boys' golf team, and was the Mountain View League individual champion and MVP, graduating in 2002.

[13] Blasberg turned professional in June 2004, at 19 years of age, and played on the LPGA Futures Tour that season.

[3][5] She won the Laconia Savings Bank Golf Classic, and en route to her first professional win broke the Future Tour's 18-hole scoring record, shooting a 62.

[14] Blasberg started on the LPGA Tour in 2005, making the cut in most of her early events but not contending for top positions.

In 2008, she earned a career-best tie for eighth at the SBS Open in Hawaii, and over $113,000 ($160,000 in current dollar terms) in winnings.

Blasberg returned again to Qualifying School in 2009 in an attempt to improve her status on Tour for the 2010 season, but withdrew after shooting rounds of 72 and 78 in the final stage of the Tournament.

[3] During the tournament week, Blasberg participated in a "Back to College" event at which she joined fellow players Mina Harigae and Mariajo Uribe in visiting student-athletes at the Universidad Latina De America in Morelia to answer questions on golf and education.

[4][3] On the afternoon of May 9, 2010, Blasberg was found dead with a plastic bag secured over her head in her bed at her home in Anthem, Nevada, outside of Las Vegas, at age 25.

[4][19] Blasberg was in bed with a dust mask over her mouth, and a plastic bag over her head, kept in place by rubber bands.

[33][34] The days prior to her death, Blasberg had been busy and appeared normal, working on her golf game, buying curtains for her bedroom at her father's house, and having a round of Botox injections.

[3] On May 13, 2010, police in Henderson, Nevada, executed a search warrant, raiding the home and office of Dr. Thomas Hess in the investigation into Blasberg's death; he had been with her the night that she died.

[35] The search warrant listed an anti-anxiety medication, Xanax, plastic garbage bags, and a sample of Hess' handwriting.

[35] An inventory of the materials seized in the search of Hess' house included two computers, a cell phone, two video cameras, and a GPS unit.

[35] Small white plastic trash bags, identical to ones seized from Hess' office or home, had been found next to Blasberg's bed.

[36][37] On June 2, 2010, Blasberg's father appeared on The Early Show, where he denied that his daughter had been clinically depressed, in financial troubles, or unhappy with her recent performances.

[3][45] He was sentenced to one year’s probation, 40 hours of community service at Volunteers of Medicine of Southern Nevada, and impulse-control counseling.