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Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - Spiny_Norman - 02-17-2020

Mickey Wright was one of the greatest women golfers of all time. She won 90 pro tournaments including 13 majors and had a swing that Ben Hogan lauded as the best he had ever seen. She attended Stanford for one year before joining the ladies pro tour. She was enshrined in the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.

Mickey Wright passed away today at the age of 85. https://www.golf.com/news/2020/02/17/mickey-wright-dies-of-heart-attack-85/

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - winflop - 02-17-2020

Once the women's team finishes their current tournament (I think tomorrow) I'll be reaching out to coach Anne Walker to see if they are planning to do anything to honor her.

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - Spiny_Norman - 02-17-2020

(02-17-2020, 04:49 PM)winflop Wrote:  Once the women's team finishes their current tournament (I think tomorrow) I'll be reaching out to coach Anne Walker to see if they are planning to do anything to honor her.

Win, when you do, can you ask why the team only plays 2 tournaments in the next 2 months? Did something fall through? Most teams will play 5 or 6 spring tournaments before Pac 12s. Stanford is only playing 4.

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - Nan3cy - 02-17-2020

My dad was on the board of the Western Golf Assn in the early 60s. When the Women’s Western Open was played at the club we belonged to in Madison, we had a few of the golfers out on our boat on Lake Mendota. Mickey Wright was one of them. I was a star-struck 15-year-old and she was incredibly nice. That was long before I knew she and I would have Stanford in common.

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - winflop - 02-17-2020

(02-17-2020, 05:08 PM)Spiny_Norman Wrote:  
(02-17-2020, 04:49 PM)winflop Wrote:  Once the women's team finishes their current tournament (I think tomorrow) I'll be reaching out to coach Anne Walker to see if they are planning to do anything to honor her.

Win, when you do, can you ask why the team only plays 2 tournaments in the next 2 months? Did something fall through? Most teams will play 5 or 6 spring tournaments before Pac 12s. Stanford is only playing 4.

If I see her I will ask her but really want to focus on Mickey when I write to here. If I had to guess, it has to do with timing of tournaments and dead week/finals/spring break timing.

Looks like only 3 tournaments during winter quarter. The March tournament is the weekend before Spring Quarter starts. Total of 6 tournaments since start of the year, including Pac-12s before NCAAs start

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - Phogge - 02-17-2020

Babe Didrikson and Patty Berg WERE women’s golf in the early years. The along came Betsy Rawls and Joanne Gunderson. Later on Nancy Lopez and then Annika. Mickey Wright was better than any of them.

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - Mick - 02-18-2020

(02-17-2020, 11:30 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Babe Didrikson and Patty Berg WERE women’s golf in the early years. The along came Betsy Rawls and Joanne Gunderson. Later on Nancy Lopez and then Annika. Mickey Wright was better than any of them.

Kathy Whitworth is somewhere in there, with 88 wins and 6 majors, most in LPGA history.  And Louise Suggs (61 wins).  My personal favorite is Julie Inkster, just 31 wins with 7 major wins, but she was a junior on the Harbor high school golf team and I matched up against her.  She beat me by a stroke a hole, and let's just leave it at that...;)

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - Phogge - 02-18-2020

I saw Wright play once. The sound of club on ball was unlike any of the other women that day. Kind of like the sound of Stenson hitting a long iron.

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - BobK - 02-18-2020

Well Mick I used to make cheese burgers for hubby Brian Inkster long ago at Los Altos Country Club

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - BostonCard - 02-18-2020

(02-18-2020, 08:46 AM)Mick Wrote:  
(02-17-2020, 11:30 PM)Phogge Wrote:  Babe Didrikson and Patty Berg WERE women’s golf in the early years. The along came Betsy Rawls and Joanne Gunderson. Later on Nancy Lopez and then Annika. Mickey Wright was better than any of them.

Kathy Whitworth is somewhere in there, with 88 wins and 6 majors, most in LPGA history.  And Louise Suggs (61 wins).  My personal favorite is Julie Inkster, just 31 wins with 7 major wins, but she was a junior on the Harbor high school golf team and I matched up against her.  She beat me by a stroke a hole, and let's just leave it at that...;)

Reminds me of playing racquetball at Stanford, where the three time high school national champion racquetball player (Elkova Icenogle) was on the club team.  After getting tired of thumping everyone, she started playing people left-handed, and got good enough that she beat most of us handily despite playing with her non-dominant hand.

BC

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - Mick - 02-18-2020

(02-18-2020, 09:25 AM)BobK Wrote:  Well Mick I used to make cheese burgers for hubby Brian Inkster long ago at Los Altos Country Club

My dad has owned a share of Pasatiempo since 1974.  Julie's family lived on the 14th fairway.  Brian was the pro at Pasatiempo until about 1980, then moved to Los Altos Golf & Country Club.  Brian was a St. Francis grad, as are their kids.

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - terry - 02-18-2020

Did Mickey Wright play golf for Stanford? Did Stanford even have a women's golf team at that time?

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - BobK - 02-18-2020

No and no. Wright was the first one and done


https://www.lpga.com/news/2020-mickey-wright-rip

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - Spiny_Norman - 02-18-2020

She was a private individual, but Golf Digest got Mickey Wright to open up a bit in an interview a few years ago. It includes a nice Stanford quote.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/we-finally-got-mickey-wright

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - Nan3cy - 02-18-2020

(02-18-2020, 11:10 AM)Spiny_Norman Wrote:  She was a private individual, but Golf Digest got Mickey Wright to open up a bit in an interview a few years ago. It includes a nice Stanford quote.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/we-finally-got-mickey-wright

Great interview. Thanks! I loved her image of heaven as the golf course where she gets to duplicate her greatest high as a golfer.

RE: Stanford HoF golfer Mickey Wright passes away - teejers1 - 02-18-2020

(02-18-2020, 01:47 PM)Nan3cy Wrote:  
(02-18-2020, 11:10 AM)Spiny_Norman Wrote:  She was a private individual, but Golf Digest got Mickey Wright to open up a bit in an interview a few years ago. It includes a nice Stanford quote.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/we-finally-got-mickey-wright

Great interview. Thanks! I loved her image of heaven as the golf course where she gets to duplicate her greatest high as a golfer.

Ditto on the thanks, Spiny.  Great read.