Mickey Wright

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Mickey (Mary Kathryn) Wright (born February 14, 1935 in San Diego, California) is an American professional golfer.

Wright won eighty-two events on the LPGA Tour, which puts her second on the all time win list behind Kathy Whitworth, who won eighty-eight times. Thirteen of her victories were in major championships, which places her second to Patty Berg, who won fifteen majors. Wright topped the LPGA money list for four consecutive seasons from 1961-1964 and made the top ten on the list thirteen times in total between 1956 and 1969.

Wright retired from full-time golf at age 34 in 1969. Wright won 12 majors between 1958 and 1966, and she is the only player in LPGA Tour history to hold all four major titles at the same time. She now lives in Port St. Lucie, Florida.[1]

1 Breast cancer
2 Major championships
3 See also
4 External link

[edit] Breast cancer

Wright was diagnosed with breast cancer on October 10, 2006 at the age of 71 and was scheduled to receive a lumpectomy and possibly further treatment if the cancer proved to have spread to her lymph nodes according to her longtime manager Peggy Wilson.[2]