Mallon the quiet achiever
BY Bruce Young | LPGA Tour | 2002 Canadian Women's Open | Wrap | 19 Aug 2002
Despite the fact that she does not get mentioned a lot in dispatches these days Meg Mallon can rightly claim a place amongst the top echelon of modern day players.
Mallon won her fourteenth USLPGA Tour event with her three shot win in trying conditions in Quebec with Michelle Ellis, Catriona Matthew and Michele Redman tying for second ahead of Se Ri Pak in fifth place.
Mallon trailed Matthew by one with nine holes to play and despite three bogies in her last six holes was still able to catch the faltering Scot. It was in the end a convincing win for the thirty nine year old and with the win goes a cheque for $US180,000.
Scot Catriona Matthew has shown in the past that she plays the wind well winnign in Hawaii last year and doing well at the British Open in previous years. Her fall from grace over the back nine was somewhat surprising therefore. Michelle Ellis followed her second at Turnbery with another fine effort to tie Matthew and Redman for second. She could have done without the bogey at the last, but so could a few others, and the cheque she secures for second $US83,500 will go nicely with that from last week. She has earnings of close to $US200,000 in the last two weeks and has made a significant move on the money list also.
Michele Redman heads to Pennsylvania this week to the scene of one of her two victories on tour in good heart. In 2000 she won the Betsy King First Union event so in the form that she now finds herself in look for a good showing from her there
Karrie Webb’s last round 78 dropped her back to 14th, Wendy Doolan 24th, Jan Stephenson 54th, Marnie McGuire 63rd and Mardi Lunn 69th.
