Golf: New Girl in Town

For the past five years, the Bermuda-shorts world of women's golf has been dominated by Mickey Wright. But two months ago, Mickey, 30, was forced into temporary retirement by a severely sprained left hand, brought on, her doctor thinks, by her habit of toting her huge wardrobe from her car to motel room by hooking the clothes hangers over her fingers. While she languishes, a new girl has turned up with a club that is easily as magical as Mickey's. At 25, Kathy Whitworth is the same size as Mickey (5 ft. 9 in., 145 Ibs.), but there the...

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