Patty Sheehan

Patty Sheehan is an American professional golfer, born on October 27, 1956 in Middlebury, Vermont. As a teenager she was rated one of the top junior snow skiers in the country before her family moved to Nevada, where she won three straight state high school golf championships. She was the 1980 AIAW national intercollegiate champion, played on the 1980 Curtis Cup team and joined the LPGA Tour that year, winning Rookie of the Year honors in 1981. Over her career she won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events, including the LPGA Championship in 1983 and 1984 and the U.S. Women's Open in 1992 and 1994. In 1992 she became the first golfer to win both the U.S. Women's Open and the Women's British Open in the same year. She played on five U.S. Solheim Cup teams, captained the team in 2002 and 2003, and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1993.