Beth Daniel (born October 14, 1956) is an American

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. She became a member of the

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in 1979 and won 33 LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career. She is a member of the

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Early life and amateur career

Daniel was born on October 14, 1956, in

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. She played her collegiate golf at

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, and was on the 1976 national championship team that included future LPGA players Betsy King, Sherri Turner and Cindy Ferro. In 1977, she won the Broderick Award (now the

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) as the nation's best female collegiate golfer. Daniel won the U.S. Women's Amateur in 1975 and 1977, the Women's Western Amateur in 1978, 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.

Professional career

Daniel's first victory came in 1979 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

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was at her most dominant, she 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 the second golfer in Tour history to record a scoring average below 71.00. The year 1990 was Daniel's most successful on tour. She won seven times, including her lone major at the Mazda LPGA Championship. That year she was also named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. Along the way, she endured two major slumps. She was winless from 1986 to 1988 and again from 1996 to 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. She had outlasted most of her contemporaries such as King, Patty Sheehan and

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, remaining competitive on the LPGA Tour. Daniel won the Golf Writers Association of America Female Player of the Year in 1980 and 1990. She also won the 1981 Seagrams Seven Crowns of Sport Award for women's golf. She was inducted into the South Carolina Golf Hall of Fame in September 1995. She was recognized during the LPGA's 50th Anniversary in 2000 as one of the LPGA's top-50 players and teachers. Daniel played on eight U.S.

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teams (1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005). By 2005 Daniel had cut back her schedule, and played just five events by 2007. That year she also served as assistant captain on the U.S.

team, and was named captain for the American squad in 2009. In 2007, she joined the

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as a substitute analyst for LPGA Tournament coverage. Her first event was the 2007 Safeway Classic. Daniel also awards the best junior female golfer in South Carolina with the Beth Daniel Award. The award is given to the player with the most SCJGA (South Carolina Junior Golf Association) points in a year. In 2009, Daniel was the captain of the U.S. Solheim Cup team that defeated Europe by a score of 16–12 at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois.

Professional wins (41)

LPGA Tour wins (33)

LPGA Tour playoff record (5–6)

LPGA of Japan Tour wins (4)

*1979 World Ladies *1988 Nichirei International *1990 Konica Cup World Ladies *1991 Konica Cup World Ladies

Other wins (4)

*1981 JCPenney Mixed Team Classic (with

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) *1990 JCPenney Classic (with

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) *1995 JCPenney Classic (with

) *1999 World Golf Hall of Fame Championship (with

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)

Major championships

Wins (1)

Results timeline

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001. CUT = missed the half-way cut.
WD = withdrew
T = tied

Summary

*Starts – 105 *Wins – 1 *2nd-place finishes – 6 *3rd-place finishes – 3 *Top 3 finishes – 10 *Top 5 finishes – 16 *Top 10 finishes – 33 *Top 25 finishes – 60 *Missed cuts – 13 *Most consecutive cuts made – 23 *Longest streak of top-10s – 5 (twice)

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur * Curtis Cup: 1976 (winners), 1978 (winners) *

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1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

Professional *

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

(winners),

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

(winners),

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

(winners),

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

(winners),

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

(winners),

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

(non-playing captain, winners) *

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: 2005 * Handa Cup: 2007 (winners), 2008 (winners), 2009 (winners), 2010 (winners), 2011 (winners), 2012 (tie, Cup retained), 2013, 2014 (winners), 2015 (winners)

Personal life

Beth Daniel is in a long-term relationship with fellow golfer Meg Mallon.

References

External links

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Early life and amateur career

Professional career

Professional wins (41)

LPGA Tour wins (33)

LPGA of Japan Tour wins (4)

Other wins (4)

Major championships

Wins (1)

Results timeline

Summary

U.S. national team appearances

Personal life

See also

References

External links