From across the pond to stateside, Play Golf Designs Professional, Mallory Blackwelder, is just what women's golf needs. She is beautiful, philanthropic, driven and accomplished at a young age. Mallory first heard about PGD through fellow colleague, Nicole Hage at the 2009 LPGA Qualifying Tournament in Daytona Beach, FL. Nicole, who has been a PGD Professional for a couple years, told Mallory she should apply, and the rest is history. Mallory knows that the LPGA needs to promote the beauty and glamour of the girls on tour, and felt that PGD was the perfect fit for her to capitalize on this.
Mallory, an LPGA 2010 rookie as well as a rookie on the Ladies European Tour (LET), is from Kentucky. Her mother, Myra, is a member of the LPGA and her father, Worth, has had success as a caddy for Cristie Kerr and Juli Inkster over time. This year he will be looping for his daughter full-time!
Mallory played her first two years of college golf at the University of Florida. She loved UF, however, when her mother became head coach at University of Kentucky, another SEC school, Mallory had a change of heart and transferred to UK immediately after her mother became head coach. It was the school she grew up loving since she was a young junior golfer, and the fact that her mother was the head women’s golf coach sealed the deal.Mallory has had great qualifying success and has put herself in great position to enter competitive events with ease. Her 2010 plan is to start her season, shortly, in Morocco at an LET event. She then plans to play on the Duramed Futures Tour, playing the events in: Mexico, Daytona and Texas. After that swing, Mallory will pack her bags for 15 to 18 events on the LET starting in May. While Mallory is busy making birdies in Europe, she hopes that the Tournament Directors on the LPGA will see her marketability and give her sponsors invites into certain LPGA events.
Mallory's mother, Myra, was Rookie of the Year on the LPGA tour in 1980 and Mallory hopes to follow in her footsteps, but knows it will be a difficult task playing on two different tours. She believes it can be done if she plays well enough in the LPGA events that she tees it up in. This marks the first ever mother-daughter combination who are both LPGA members at the same time. This has never happened in the history of the LPGA tour.
Mallory also enjoys watching her favorite TV show Grey’s Anatomy when she can, and admits she is addicted to texting. For more information on Mallory please head over to http://www.playgolfdesigns.com/
Follow Mallory on Twitter @MalBlackwelder and checking out her progress at http://www.malloryblackwelderontour.com
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Tina Lloyd
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