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Meg Mallon

United States · born , Natick, Massachusetts, United States

4major championships, LPGA count

Summary

  • First major 1991 U.S. Women's Open
  • Last major 2004 U.S. Women's Open
  • Runner-up in majors 4 times

Wins

  1. 1991 U.S. Women's Open Colonial C.C. · 283 (-1) · by 2 strokes from Pat Bradley
  2. 1991 KPMG Women's PGA Championship Bethesda Country Club · 274 (-10) · 1 stroke from Pat Bradley and Ayako Okamoto
  3. 2000 du Maurier Classic won (an LPGA major)
  4. 2004 U.S. Women's Open Orchards G.C. · 274 (-10) · by 2 strokes from Annika Sorenstam

Near misses

  1. 1995 U.S. Women's Open Broadmoor G.C. (East Course) · runner-up to Annika Sorenstam · 279
  2. 1996 The Chevron Championship runner-up to Patty Sheehan
  3. 1999 The Chevron Championship runner-up to Dottie Pepper
  4. 2000 U.S. Women's Open The Merit Club · runner-up to Karrie Webb · 287

Rivals

Beat her

Dottie PepperBeat Meg Mallon to the 1999 Chevron Championship

Next in the chain: Annika Sörenstam's rivals →

Moments

  1. 1991 U.S. Women's Open Mallon seized the lead with an 18-foot birdie putt on the 400-yard 14th and followed with a 20-footer for birdie on the 15th, playing the back nine in 32 for a closing 67.
  2. 1991 U.S. Women's Open Protesting the first round's painfully slow play, Lori Garbacz had her caddie phone from the 14th hole for a pizza to be delivered to the 17th tee, where it was waiting with two groups still backed up ahead of her.
  3. 2004 U.S. Women's Open Mallon's closing 65 got going with a 54-foot downhill birdie putt at the 4th hole, and she took the outright lead with a 2-foot birdie at the 9th.
  4. 2004 U.S. Women's Open At the par-4 15th Mallon missed the green, chunked her chip and then holed a putt of about 30 feet from the fringe for an unlikely par.

Records and firsts

  1. 2004 U.S. Women's Open lowest final round by a champion · 65
  2. 2004 U.S. Women's Open 3rd oldest champion · 41y 2m 20d
  3. 1991 U.S. Women's Open longest span between wins · 13 years (1991–2004)

Results by championship

    Best day

    2004 U.S. Women's Open

    Orchards G.C., South Hadley, MA · 274 (-10) · by 2 strokes from Annika Sorenstam

    Mallon's closing 65 got going with a 54-foot downhill birdie putt at the 4th hole, and she took the outright lead with a 2-foot birdie at the 9th.

    At the par-4 15th Mallon missed the green, chunked her chip and then holed a putt of about 30 feet from the fringe for an unlikely par.

    Record: lowest final round by a champion · 65

    Record: 3rd oldest champion · 41y 2m 20d

    Chosen by rule: the major win our record tables single out. Year page: 2004.

    Career line, 1991–2004

    U.S. Women's Open
    1991 U.S. Women's Open: won1995 U.S. Women's Open: runner-up to Annika Sorenstam2000 U.S. Women's Open: runner-up to Karrie Webb2004 U.S. Women's Open: won
    Chevron Championship
    1996 Chevron Championship: runner-up to Patty Sheehan1999 Chevron Championship: runner-up to Dottie Pepper
    Women's PGA
    1991 Women's PGA: won
    Other LPGA majors
    2000 du Maurier Classic: won
    199520002005

    8 results. Hover or tap a mark; click it for the year.

    • Major win
    • Runner-up

    Meg Mallon was born on April 14, 1963, in Natick, Massachusetts, United States. Mallon won 4 major championships by the LPGA's official count: 2 U.S. Women's Opens (1991, 2004), 1 Women's PGA Championship (1991) and 1 du Maurier Classic (2000).

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    The record

    Wins in the majors (4)

    Count and list are the LPGA official major-championship record as given in our U.S. Women's Open champions table.

    1. 1991 U.S. Women's Open Colonial C.C., Fort Worth, TX · 283 (-1) · by 2 strokes from Pat Bradley
    2. 1991 KPMG Women's PGA Championship Bethesda Country Club · 274 (-10) · 1 stroke from Pat Bradley and Ayako Okamoto
    3. 2000 du Maurier Classic won (an LPGA major)
    4. 2004 U.S. Women's Open Orchards G.C., South Hadley, MA · 274 (-10) · by 2 strokes from Annika Sorenstam

    Near misses

    1. 1995 U.S. Women's Open Broadmoor G.C. (East Course) · runner-up to Annika Sorenstam · 279
    2. 1996 The Chevron Championship runner-up to Patty Sheehan
    3. 1999 The Chevron Championship runner-up to Dottie Pepper
    4. 2000 U.S. Women's Open The Merit Club · runner-up to Karrie Webb · 287

    Records and firsts

    Rows from our record tables that name this player, worded as the tables word them.

    1. 2004 U.S. Women's Open lowest final round by a champion · 65
    2. 2004 U.S. Women's Open 3rd oldest champion · 41y 2m 20d
    3. 1991 U.S. Women's Open longest span between wins · 13 years (1991–2004)

    Sources

    Elsewhere: Wikipedia.

    Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.

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    2. lpga.com: major championship records
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    10. where2golf.com: meg mallon
    11. orlandosentinel.com: king takes aim at 3rd open title
    12. orlandosentinel.com: headache good omen for bradley
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