Peggy Conley (born 1947) is a retired American

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Career

At just 16, Conley played her way into the championship match of the 1963

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and lost 2 and 1 to Seattle's Anne Quast. In 1964, she won the

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title after losing the final match the year before, beating Laura MacIvor, 6 and 5. In 1966, she captured the

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. Conley became the first woman to receive a

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golf scholarship. At 29, she qualified for the

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, where she recorded top-10 finishes at the 1978 U.S. Women's Open and the 1979 LPGA Championship. Losing her card after six seasons, she turned to the

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(LET), where she played another half-dozen seasons. She won twice on the LET, the 1984 Ulster Volkswagen Classic and the 1988 Portuguese Ladies Open, and finished runner-up multiple times, including at the 1986

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. A head-on collision in Italy ended her professional career in 1991. She was inducted into the Pacific Northwest Golf Association Hall of Fame in 2001.

Amateur wins

*1961 PNGA Junior Girls *1963 PNGA Junior Girls, Oregon Junior Girls *1964 PNGA Junior Girls, Oregon Junior Girls,

*1966

*1972 PNGA Women's Amateur Champion

Professional wins (2)

Ladies European Tour wins (2)

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Ulster Volkswagen Classic *

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Portuguese Ladies Open Source:

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur *

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(winners), 1968 (winners)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Conley, Peggy American female golfers Washington Huskies women's golfers LPGA Tour golfers Ladies European Tour golfers Sportspeople from Spokane, Washington 1947 births Living people 20th-century American sportswomen