Alice Miller (born May 15, 1956) is an American professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
er. She became a member of the
LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of week ...
in 1978 and won eight LPGA Tour events, including one
major championship, during her career.
Amateur career
Miller was born in
Marysville, California
Marysville is a city and the county seat of Yuba County, California, located in the Gold Country region of Northern California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 12,072, reflecting a decrease of 196 from the 12,268 counted ...
. She played on the Marysville HS golf team the first year that golf became coed. She was scouted by Arizona State golf coach. She attended
Arizona State University and played on the 1975
AIAW
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Interc ...
National Collegiate Championship team.
Professional career
Miller joined the
LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of week ...
in 1978. Between 1983 and 1991 she won eight titles on the tour, including one major championship, the 1985
Nabisco Dinah Shore. She also had her highest finish on the money list that year, when she placed third. She served as president of the LPGA Tour in 1993. She retired from the LPGA Tour after the 1998 season.
Professional wins
LPGA Tour (8)
LPGA Tour playoff record (2–0)
Other (1)
*1985 Mazda Champions (with
Don January
Donald Ray January (born November 20, 1929) is an American retired professional golfer, best known for winning the 1967 PGA Championship.
Early life
Born in Plainview, Texas, January graduated from Sunset High School in Dallas. He was a member ...
)
Major championships
Wins (1)
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American female golfers
Arizona State Sun Devils women's golfers
LPGA Tour golfers
Winners of LPGA major golf championships
Golfers from California
People from Marysville, California
Sportspeople from Yuba County, California
1956 births
Living people
21st-century American women