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Mallon, Meg

Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for atleast five centuries in the British Isles. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play.

LPGA, Ladies Professional Golf Association is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, with headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida runs a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world from February to November each year. The LPGA was founded in 1950 by a group of 13 women. LPGA Tour's events are held in the United States.

Mallon, Meg is one of the LPGA players. She was born on 14 April 1963 in Natick. Her height is five foot six inches. In 1983, Mallon captured the Michigan Amateur Championship title. She attended the Ohio State University, where she earned All-Conference honors from 1984-85 and was the runner-up at the 1985 Big Ten Championship.

In 1986, she first qualified for the tour by tying for 37th at the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn nonexempt status for the 1987 season. In 1987, she returned to the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament, where she tied for 39th to earn nonexempt status for the 1988 season. In 1999, she won the Naples LPGA Memorial and the Sara Lee Classic and crossed the 4 million dollars mark in career earnings with her win at the Sara Lee Classic. In 2002, she won the Bank of Montreal Canadian Women’s Open for her 14th career victory and even was a member of the victorious U.S. Solheim Cup Team, posting a 3-1-0 record. She crossed the 6 million dollars mark in career earnings following the LPGA Corning Classic.

In 2003, won the season-ending ADT Championship and crossed the 7 million dollars mark in career earnings with the victory in the second round of the Welch’s Championship, she became the first player in LPGA history to shoot a 60. In 2005, she carded a season-low 66 in the final round of the Wendy’s Championship for Children, where she tied for 20th.

She is a player known for her mental toughness owing to which many of her famous matches went the distance. Her superior approach and dedication to the game made her stand out from the crowd.

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