Pat O'Sullivan | |
Fullname: | Patricia B. O'Sullivan Lucey |
Birth Date: | 1 September 1926 |
Birth Place: | New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
Death Place: | Orange, Connecticut, U.S. |
Spouse: | C. Gerald Lucey |
Status: | Amateur |
Majorwins: | 1 |
Western: | 2nd: 1951 |
Titleholders: | Won: 1951 |
Lpga: | 7th: 1955 |
Wusopen: | T14: 1948 |
Patricia B. O'Sullivan Lucey (September 1, 1926 – November 6, 2019) was an American amateur golfer.[1]
She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, daughter of Marguerite Lawton and Patrick Brett O'Sullivan, a US Representative from Connecticut (1923–1925) and member of the Connecticut Supreme Court (1950–1957). She attended Katherine Gibbs College and Bradford College.[2]
O'Sullivan won the 1950, 1951, and 1953 North and South Women's Amateur. She also won the 1951 Titleholders Championship, then one of the LPGA Tour's major championships. She represented the United States in the Curtis Cup in 1952 and won several tournaments in her native New England.
O'Sullivan was a member of Race Brook Country Club in Orange, Connecticut from 1942. The Club named its inside nine golf course "The O'Sullivan" in her honor.
O'Sullivan was married to C. Gerald Lucey, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1947–1953) and mayor of Brockton, Massachusetts (1952–1956).[2]
In 1967, O'Sullivan was inducted into the Connecticut Golf Hall of Fame.[3] [4]
Amateur