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Muffin Spencer-Devlin
Personal information
Born (1953-10-25) October 25, 1953 (age 70)
Piqua, Ohio
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Sporting nationality  United States
Career
College American College of Switzerland
Rollins College
StatusProfessional
Former tour(s) LPGA Tour (1979-2000)
Professional wins3
Number of wins by tour
LPGA Tour3
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipT12: 1988, 1992
Women's PGA C'ship5th: 1986
U.S. Women's OpenT10: 1982
du Maurier ClassicT25: 1982

Muffin Spencer-Devlin (born October 25, 1953) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.

She was born in Piqua, Ohio and joined the LPGA in 1979. She is openly gay and, in 1996, became the first LPGA player to come out as gay. [1]

Spencer-Devlin made a cameo appearance as a member of Starfleet Medical in the feature film Star Trek Generations that was released in 1994, and made a brief appearance in " The Chute", the third episode of the 1995 series Star Trek: Voyager. [2]

Professional wins

LPGA Tour wins (3)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory
Runners-up
1 Aug 18, 1985 MasterCard International Pro-Am −7 (70-75-64=209) 2 strokes United States Deedee Lasker
United States Kim Shipman
2 May 11, 1986 United Virginia Bank Classic −2 (76-69-69=214) 1 stroke United States Debbie Massey
United States Jody Rosenthal
United States Barb Thomas
3 Sep 10, 1989 Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship −2 (74-69-71=214) 1 stroke Canada Dawn Coe
United States Nancy Lopez
United States Susan Sanders

References

  1. ^ Garrity, John; Nutt, Amy (March 18, 1996). "No More Disguises - Muffin Spencer-Devlin stands tall in her chosen role: the first LPGA player to declare she's gay". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  2. ^ "Muffin Spencer-Devlin bio". LPGA. Retrieved February 11, 2015.

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