August 2021 Ohio Golf Journal

She competed on the LPGA Tour from 1982 to 2006, accumulated 13 wins, plus four runner-up finishes in major championships. Jones represented Team USA in seven Solheim Cups and captained the 2011 USA Team. Jones is a member of the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame (1994), NGCA Hall of Fame (1998) and Georgia Golf Hall of Fame (2006). She retired from the LPGA Tour in 2006 and launched her own golf travel company, Rosie Jones Golf Getaways. Jones is currently ranked No. 27 on the LPGA all-time money list with over 8 million in career earnings. Meg Mallon Meg Mallon jumped over the Michigan border to attend Ohio State, where she earned All-Conference honors in 1984 and 1985. Mallon was the runner- up at the 1985 Big Ten Championship and won the 1983 Michigan Women’s Amateur Championship. She joined the LPGA Tour in 1987, won four events in 1991, two of which were major championships, the LPGA Championship and the USGA Women’s Open that year. Meg was named Female Player of theYear by the Golf Writers Association of America and Most Improved Player by Golf Digest after the 1991 season. She added two more majors, the 2000 du Maurier Classic and a second U.S. Women’s Open, in 2004. Ohio Golf Journal