Donna Caponi

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Donna Caponi-Byrnes (b. January 29, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American professional golfer.

Daughter of a club pro, Caponi-Byrnes began playing golf at the age of eight and joined the pro tour at 20. It took Caponi-Byrnes four years to capture her first win, but she did it on the tour's biggest stage, capturing the U.S. Women's Open. She won by one stroke, with a dramatic closing round score of 69 that included a birdie on the final hole. Only Mickey Wright had ever won back-to-back U.S. Women's Opens before Caponi-Byrnes turned the trick in 1970, when she also matched Wright's 72-hole scoring record of 287.

Caponi-Byrnes won twenty-four events on the LPGA Tour, including four major championships. She finished in the top ten on the money list ten times between 1968 and 1981, including second place finishes in 1976 and 1980. She was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001.

She married her longtime boyfriend Edward "Ted" Byrnes on July 29, 2006. She currently can be seen on The Golf Channel's coverage of the Champions Tour.