Patty Sheehan
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| Full name | Patty Sheehan | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 27, 1956 Middlebury, Vermont, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sporting nationality |  United States | ||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Santa Barbara, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Rebecca Gaston | ||||||||||||||||
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| College | University of Nevada San Jose State University | ||||||||||||||||
| Turned professional | 1980 | ||||||||||||||||
| Current tour | Legends Tour | ||||||||||||||||
| Former tour | LPGA Tour (1980–2006) | ||||||||||||||||
| Professional wins | 41 | ||||||||||||||||
| Number of wins by tour | |||||||||||||||||
| LPGA Tour | 35 | ||||||||||||||||
| Ladies European Tour | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| LPGA of Japan Tour | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Other | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Best results in LPGA major championships (wins: 6) | |||||||||||||||||
| Chevron Championship | Won: 1996 | ||||||||||||||||
| Women's PGA C'ship | Won: 1983, 1984, 1993 | ||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Women's Open | Won: 1992, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||
| du Maurier Classic | 2nd: 1990 | ||||||||||||||||
| Women's British Open | DNP | ||||||||||||||||
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Patty Sheehan (born October 27, 1956) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Sheehan also hosts the Patty Sheehan & Friends, which is a tournament on the Legends Tour. Patty Sheehan & Friends helps aid women and children's charities all across Northern Nevada.
Amateur career
[edit | edit source]Sheehan was born in Middlebury, Vermont.[1] She was rated one of the top junior snow skiers in the country as a 13-year-old. She attended Earl Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada. She won three straight Nevada high school championships (1972–74), three straight Nevada State Amateurs (1975–78) and two straight California Women's Amateur Championships (1977–78). She was the runner-up at the 1979 U.S. Women's Amateur, then was the 1980 AIAW national individual intercollegiate golf champion. She went 4-0 as a member of the 1980 U.S. Curtis Cup team. She won the Broderick Award in 1980.[2][3] She attended University of Nevada and San Jose State University. She is a member of both the Collegiate Golf Hall of Fame and the National High School Hall of Fame.
Professional career
[edit | edit source]Sheehan turned professional and joined the LPGA Tour in 1980. She won LPGA Rookie of the Year honors in 1981 with her first professional victory coming at the Mazda Japan Classic. She was strong throughout the 1980s, winning four times in both 1983 and 1984, and winning the LPGA Championship in both seasons. She won LPGA Tour Player of the Year in 1983 and was one of several athletes named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year in 1987. Sheehan suffered a loss personally in 1989, when her home and possessions were destroyed in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. She also suffered a professional loss in 1990, when after holding an 11-shot lead during the third round of the U.S. Women's Open, she lost the tournament to Betsy King.
Sheehan started off the 1990s with five wins in 1990. She won the U.S. Women's Open in 1992 and 1994, the Mazda LPGA Championship in 1995, and the Nabisco Dinah Shore (now known as the Kraft Nabisco Championship) in 1996. That would be her final LPGA victory. She qualified for the LPGA Hall of Fame by winning her 30th tournament in 1993.[4] She finished in the Top 10 on the LPGA money list every year from 1982 to 1993. While she never led, she did finish second five times in that span. When she won the U.S. Women's Open and the Women's British Open in 1992, she became the first golfer to win both in the same year.
Sheehan played on the U.S. Solheim Cup team five times (1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2002) and captained the team in 2002 and 2003.
Sheehan became one of the first LPGA players to publicly announce that she was a lesbian.[5] Sheehan and her partner Rebecca Gaston have two children.
In June 2020, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first LGBTQ Pride parade, Queerty named her among the fifty heroes "leading the nation toward equality, acceptance, and dignity for all people".[6][7]
Professional wins (41)
[edit | edit source]LPGA Tour wins (35)
[edit | edit source]| Legend |
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| LPGA Tour major championships (6) |
| Other LPGA Tour (29) |
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LPGA Tour playoff record (5–7)
LPGA majors are shown in bold.
Ladies European Tour wins (1)
[edit | edit source]- Note: Sheehan won the Women's British Open once before it became co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour in 1994 and recognized as a major championship by the LPGA Tour in 2001.
LPGA of Japan Tour wins (3)
[edit | edit source]- 1981 (1) Mazda Japan Classic1
- 1988 (1) Mazda Japan Classic1
- 1992 (1) Daikin Orchid Ladies
1Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour
Legends Tour wins (3)
[edit | edit source]- 2002 Copps Great Lakes Classic
- 2005 BJ's Charity Championship (with Pat Bradley; tie with Cindy Rarick and Jan Stephenson)
- 2006 World Ladies Senior Open
Other wins (1)
[edit | edit source]Major championships
[edit | edit source]Wins (6)
[edit | edit source]| Year | Championship | Winning score | Margin | Runner(s)-up |
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| 1983 | LPGA Championship | −9 (68-71-74-66=279) | 2 strokes | Error creating thumbnail: Sandra Haynie |
| 1984 | LPGA Championship | −16 (71-70-63-68=272) | 10 strokes | Error creating thumbnail: Pat Bradley, Error creating thumbnail: Beth Daniel |
| 1992 | U.S. Women's Open | −4 (69-72-70-69=280) | Playoff1 | Error creating thumbnail: Juli Inkster |
| 1993 | Mazda LPGA Championship | −9 (70-72-69-68=279) | 1 stroke | Error creating thumbnail: Lauri Merten |
| 1994 | U.S. Women's Open | −7 (66-71-69-71=277) | 1 stroke | Error creating thumbnail: Tammie Green |
| 1996 | Nabisco Dinah Shore | −7 (71-72-67-71=281) | 1 stroke | Error creating thumbnail: Meg Mallon, Error creating thumbnail: Kelly Robbins, Sweden Annika Sörenstam |
1In an 18-hole playoff, Sheehan 72, Inkster 74.
Team appearances
[edit | edit source]Amateur
- Curtis Cup (representing the United States): 1980 (winners)
Professional
- Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 1990 (winners), 1992, 1994 (winners), 1996 (winners), 2002 (non-playing captain, winners), 2003 (non-playing captain)
- Handa Cup (representing the United States): 2006 (winners), 2007 (winners), 2008 (winners), 2009 (winners), 2010 (winners), 2011 (winners), 2012 (tie, Cup retained)
See also
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Patty Sheehan at the LPGA Tour official site (archived)
- Patty Sheehan at the Legends Tour official site (also at former site)
- Patty Sheehan at golf.about.com at the Wayback Machine (archived May 17, 2008)
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- American female golfers
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- LPGA Tour golfers
- Winners of LPGA major golf championships
- Solheim Cup competitors for the United States
- World Golf Hall of Fame inductees
- Golfers from Vermont
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- LGBTQ golfers
- American lesbian sportswomen
- LGBTQ people from Nevada
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- People from Middlebury, Vermont
- Sportspeople from Reno, Nevada
- 1956 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American sportswomen