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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Wilkins, Mardell
Wilkins, Mardell
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 stands for Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour. LPGA, in 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.
Mardell Wilkins, LPGA player was born on November 11, 1947 in San Pedro, CA. She joined LPGA in 1971. In 1970, the year prior to turning pro, Wilkins was the runner-up at the Southern California Women’s Publinx and the L.A. City Women’s Championship.
A rash of injuries, which forced Wilkins to miss the 1983 season, were not enough to prevent her from enjoyed her best season in 1980. Overcoming the effects of tendonitis in her left arm and torn ligaments in her career best finish-a T6 at the Kathryn Crosby Honda Civic Classic. She opened her 1982 season with her best finish of that year tying for 10th at the Olympia Gold Classic. Later in the year, Wilkins fired a final round 67 matching the best total of her career.
She is one of the best known golf players in the history of the game. A unique style of game strategy and excellent judgment is what makes this great player one of the best all time golf players. Sheer determination, concentration and self confidence has helped her through out her professional career of playing golf to achieve what other players can only imagine of.
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