Alice Miller
Name:
Alice MillerCountry:
USABorn:
May 15, 1956 in Marysville, California.Original/Home Club:
Marysville H.S., Calif.Occupation:
Professional golfer.Turned Pro:
1978MAJORS (1): Nabisco Dinah Shore (1985). Total LPGA Tour wins (8).
Former LPGA Tour player, who retired from the Tour after the 1998 season.
America
Jamie Farr
Played as the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic (July 5-7). Alice Miller (USA) beat Deb Richard (USA) with a birdie at the third playoff hole, to record the last of her eight LPGA Tour wins. [Highland Meadows GC, Sylvania, nr Toledo, Ohio].
Majors
Nabisco
Played as the Nabisco Dinah Shore (14th) (April 4-7). Second-placed Jan Stephenson (Aus) finished 3 shots behind Miller (USA), who recorded her first and only major championship title. [Dinah Shore Tournament course, Mission Hills CC, Rancho Mirage, CA].
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Mayflower
Played as the Mayflower Classic. Second-placed Jane Blalock (USA), Mary Beth Zimmerman (USA) and Beth Solomon (USA) finished 6 shots behind Miller (USA). [CC of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana].
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Mazda
Played as the Mazda Champions (Dec 20/21; unofficial 36-hole better-ball team event; teams comprised an LPGA Tr and Snr PGA Tr player). Winning team of Alice Miller (USA) & Don January (USA) beat Pat Bradley (USA) & Lee Elder (USA) with a 12-foot birdie putt at the second playoff hole. [Tryall Club, Montego Bay, Jamaica].
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McDonald's
Played as the McDonald's Championship. Second-placed Nancy Lopez (USA) finished 8 shots behind Miller (USA). [White Manor CC, Malvern, nr Philadelphia, PA].
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S&H
Played as the S&H Golf Classic. Second-placed Kay Kennedy (USA) and Mindy Moore (USA) finished 6 shots behind Miller (USA). [Pasadena GC, Gulfport, Florida; now called Pasadena Yatch & CC].
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Played as the Sarasota Classic. Second-placed Donna Caponi (USA) finished 1 shot behind Miller (USA), who recorded her second LPGA Tour win. [Bent Tree CC, nr Sarasota, Florida].
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Played as the West Virginia LPGA Classic. Second-placed Vicki Singleton (USA) and Beverly Klass (USA) finished 2 shots behind defending champion Miller (USA). [Jones course, Speidel GC, Oglebay Resort, Wheeling, WV].
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Played as the West Virginia LPGA Classic. First-time LPGA Tour winner Miller (USA) beat Lori Garbacz (USA) with a birdie at the fourth playoff hole. Debbie Massey (USA) was eliminated at the third playoff hole. [Jones course, Speidel GC, Oglebay Resort, Wheeling, WV].
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Played as the Tallahassee Open (April 25-28). Second-placed Joe Inman (USA), Dan Sikes (USA) and Eddie Pearce (USA) finished 1 shot behind Miller (USA), who recorded his only PGA Tour win. [Killearn CC, Tallahassee, FL].
Tournaments:
Women’s major championships: the month of June sees two women’s majors: the US Women’s Open (June 3-6), with A Lim Kim defending, and the Women’s PGA Championship (June 24-27), with Sei Young Kim defending.
Senior PGA Championship: the revered Southern Hills in Oklahoma hosts the 81st staging of this event (May 27-30); Ken Tanigawa holds the title from its last playing in 2019.
Who's Who:
Phil Mickelson: in winning the 2021 PGA Championship, the world’s most famous “leftie” became the oldest winner of a golf major championship.
Hideki Matsuyama: became the first Japanese professional to win a men’s major championship, when he triumphed in this year’s Masters Tournament.
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
American Dunes opens for play following Nicklaus transformation
Nicklaus Design has transformed the former Grand Haven Golf Club in Michigan into the American Dunes Golf Club, a new public course that is now open for play
New course opens for play at Barnbougle
Bill Coore designs 14-hole layout with “sporty” holes on dune ridge above Lost Farm (golf carts allowed).
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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