[2] Farr graduated from high school a year early in 1982 and was a top recruit with many scholarship offers.

She chose to stay close and enrolled at Arizona State University in adjacent Tempe, where she played for the Sun Devils women's golf team.

In March 1991, Farr underwent a 13-hour operation to rebuild her vertebrae and stabilize her back with a 7-inch (18 cm) metal rod.

In 1992, she married Goran Lingmerth in March, and played six holes of a skins game at the Sara Lee Classic in April,[17] but in May more cancer was found on her pelvis and skull.

Through 1993, The Arizona Republic newspaper of Phoenix kept a daily column which updated Farr's health condition.

[8] Her younger sister Missy Farr-Kaye became the head coach of the women's golf team at Arizona State in June 2015, after many years as an assistant at their alma mater.