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:
PGA Championship: the year’s second men’s major championship is hosted by Southern Hills CC, Tulsa, Oklahoma, amidst doubt as to whether reigning champion Phil Mickelson will defend his title (May 19-22).
Soudal Open: Belgium’s return to European Tour golf sees 36-hole Rinkven International GC host the Soudal Open, the country’s national open championship (May 12-15).
Who's Who:
Scottie Scheffler: bags the 2022 Masters Tournament title, and with it a fourth win in six starts on the PGA Tour and his first major championship victory.
Stephen Dodd: took the European Senior Tour’s 2021 Order of Merit honours following the abandonment due to rain of the season’s final event, the MCB Tour Championship – Mauritius (April 1-3, 2022).
Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Courses in Europe. From France to Spain to the Netherlands and Norway, the Golf World Top 100 panel reveals the places you have to play (published 20 October 2021).
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.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club "makes its tournament debut with the hosting of the Italian Open on the European Tour" by Richard Humphreys
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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