Meg Mallon

Born: April 14, 1963, in Natick, Mass.

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• LPGA Championship: 1991
• U.S. Women's Open: 1991, 2004
• du Maurier Classic: 2000

Member, U.S. Solheim Cup team, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005
Member, Michigan Golf Hall of Fame

• Meg Mallon was the first LPGA player to post a score of 60 in competition. It happened in the second round of the Welch's/Fry's Championship. It was not the low round in Tour history, however; two years earlier, Annika Sorenstam had shot a 59.

• Won her first U.S. Women's Open in 1991 and her second in 2004. That 13-year gap is the longest period between wins in the event's history.

Meg Mallon played collegiately at Ohio State University and won the Michigan Amateur Championship in 1983. She turned pro in 1986, but unlike most of the better players in LPGA Tour history, Mallon struggled to get established as a pro.

Mallon first played the LPGA's Qualifying Tournament (Q-School) in 1986. She didn't earn her tour card, but she did finish high enough to claim non-exempt status. Her rookie year on Tour was 1987, when she played in 18 tournaments but made only five cuts.

It was back to Q-School, and again she came away with non-exempt status. In 1988, she made 17 of 20 cuts but had no Top 10s. She earned just enough money to gain a Tour card for 1989. Mallon's first-ever Top 10 finish came in '89, and she managed to keep her playing privileges for another year.

In 1990, Mallon had five Top 10s and finished 27th on the money list. Then in 1991, she finally had her breakout performance. That year, Mallon posted four wins, among them two majors: the LPGA Championship and the U.S. Women's Open. She finished runnerup to Pat Bradley in the Player of the Year race and second to Bradley on the money list.

Mallon was among the top players on the LPGA in many seasons after that breakout year, winning twice in 1993 and 2000, and three times in 2004. She won another major, the du Maurier, in 2000, and her second U.S. Women's Open in 2004.

And she won that second Open in style, firing a final-round 65 - the lowest final round in that tournament's history.