Beth Daniel

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Beth Daniel
Personal Information
Birth October 14, 1956 (1956-10-14) (age 51) Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.803 m)
Nationality Flag of the United States United States
Residence Delray Beach, Florida, USA
College Furman University
Career
Turned Pro 1979
LPGA wins 33
Career earnings $8,786,563
Best Results in Major Championships
Kraft Nabisco T2: 1983
LPGA Championship Won 1990
U.S. Women's Open 2: 1981, 1982
Women's British Open T5: 2004
du Maurier Classic 2: 1982
Awards
LPGA Rookie of the Year 1979
LPGA Tour
Player of the Year		 1980, 1990, 1994
LPGA Tour
Money Winner		 1980, 1981, 1990
Golf Writers Association of America Female Player of the Year 1980, 1990
LPGA Vare Trophy 1989, 1990, 1994
Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year 1990
Elected to World Golf Hall of Fame 2000
LPGA Heather Farr Award 2003

Beth Daniel (born October 14, 1956 in Charleston, South Carolina) is a professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1979 and won 1 major championship and thirty-three LPGA Tour victories in all.

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[edit] Amateur career

Daniel played her collegiate golf at Furman University and was on the 1976 national championship team included Betsy King, and future LPGA players Sherri Turner and Cindy Ferro. Daniel won the U.S. Women's Amateur in 1975 and 1977, and was on the U.S. Curtis Cup teams in 1976 and 1978 (going 4-0 in 1976). She turned pro at the end of 1978 and joined the LPGA Tour in 1979[1].

[edit] Professional career

Daniel's first victory came that year at the Patty Berg Classic, and she went on to win the LPGA Rookie of the Year award. Over the next five years, when Nancy Lopez was at her most dominant, Daniel still managed to win 13 tournaments, including four in 1980 when she was named LPGA Tour Player of the Year. Daniel led the Tour in wins in 1982, 1990 and 1994. She also led in scoring three times, including in 1989 when she became just the second golfer (at that time) in Tour history with a scoring average below 71.00[2].

The year 1990 was her best. She won seven times, including her lone major at the LPGA Championship. That year she was also named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. Along the way, Daniel endured two major slumps. She was winless from 1986-88, then again from 1996-2002. When she finally won again in 2003, she became - at age 46 years, 8 months and 29 days - the oldest winner in Tour history. And she had outlasted most of her contemporaries such as King, Patty Sheehan and Amy Alcott, remaining competitive on the LPGA Tour[3].

By 2005 she was cutting back her schedule, and played just five events in 2007. That year she also served as assistant captain on the U.S. Solheim Cup team, and was named as captain for the American squad in 2009. In 2007, she joined The Golf Channel as a substitute analyst for LPGA Tournament coverage. Her first event was the 2007 Safeway Classic[4].

[edit] LPGA victories (33)

LPGA Majors are shown in bold.

[edit] Results in LPGA Majors

Tournament 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980
Kraft Nabisco Championship ... ... ... ... ...
LPGA Championship DNP DNP DNP T38 T3
U.S. Women's Open CUT T24 T53 T20 T10
du Maurier Classic ... ... ... T16 T5
Tournament 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
Kraft Nabisco Championship ... ... T2 4 T11 T7 T22 DNP T6 T6
LPGA Championship T5 T7 T16 T2 T10 T15 T58 DNP T14 1
U.S. Women's Open 2 T2 WD T10 CUT T21 T33 T10 T20 T6
du Maurier Classic T17 2 T63 T6 T14 27 CUT T47 T7 3
Tournament 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Kraft Nabisco Championship T30 T8 T69 T19 T47 DNP CUT 72 T43 T47
LPGA Championship 4 T35 T17 T7 T18 T26 DNP T58 CUT T33
U.S. Women's Open T11 CUT T53 T18 CUT T19 DNP T31 T47 8
du Maurier Classic DNP WD T17 CUT T45 T36 DNP T54 T13 T23
Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Kraft Nabisco Championship T55 T14 T5 T40 T9 T13 DNP
LPGA Championship T26 2 T3 T39 T54 T39 CUT
U.S. Women's Open T24 T7 T20 T27 CUT DNP DNP
Women's British Open ^ CUT T16 T14 T5 T56 T6 T50

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.
DNP = did not play.
CUT = missed the half-way cut.
"T" = tied
WD = withdrew
DQ = disqualified
Green background for a win. Yellow background for a top-10 finish.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Beth Daniel at about.com
  2. ^ Beth Daniel at about.com
  3. ^ Beth Daniel at about.com
  4. ^ Beth Daniel at about.com

[edit] External links


Awards
Preceded by
Steffi Graf		 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year
1990		 Succeeded by
Monica Seles


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