{"id":5008,"date":"2020-02-17T17:19:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2020-02-20T06:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:43:21","slug":"mickey-wright-1935-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/mickey-wright-1935-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Wright  1935-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Wright, IMO the greatest female golfer of all time, died today of heart attack in Florida. She dominated women&#8217;s golf in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Coming out of San Diego, she was one of the game&#8217;s greatest champions, winning 82 tournaments including 13 majors in a career cut short by injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Hogan said she had the finest swing he ever saw. See it below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4tZ7VscSBj8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She wrote an instruction book called <em>Play Golf the Wright Way<\/em>, a book I refer to often. <\/p>\n<p>See notices:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/hall-of-famer-trail-blazer-mickey-wright-dies-of-heart-attack?itm_source=parsely-api\">GolfWorld<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/17\/obituaries\/mickey-wright-dies.html?action=click&#038;module=Well&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;section=Obituaries\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/news\/mickey-wright-13-time-womens-major-champion-dies-age-85\">Golf Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfwrx.com\/594368\/13-time-major-champion-mickey-wright-passes-away-at-the-age-of-85\/\">GolfWRX<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/to-avid-students-mickey-wright-owned-the-best-swing-ever-heres-why\">Golf Digest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/why-we-should-remember-mickey-wright-for-more-than-her-golf-swing\">GolfWorld tribute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Wright, IMO the greatest female golfer of all time, died today of heart attack in Florida. She dominated women&#8217;s golf in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Coming out of San Diego, she was one of the game&#8217;s greatest champions, winning 82 tournaments including 13 majors in a career cut short by injuries. Ben &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/mickey-wright-1935-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mickey Wright  1935-2020<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1iM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5020,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}