Mary Mills
MGA Hall of Fame 2020
Mary Mills was born in Laurel, MS on January 19, 1940. Beginning golf at age 11, Mills quickly made a name for herself as an amateur player claiming medalist honors at the U.S. Girl’s Junior Championship and Western Junior Championship. She is an 8-time Mississippi Amateur Champion, titles in which she claimed in consecutive years from 1954-1961. Mills also claimed the Gulf Coast Amateur Championship twice in her career. Following her junior career, Mills played collegiate golf for Millsaps College in Jackson, MS where she was the #1 golfer for the Men’s Golf Team for four consecutive years. In 1962, Mills joined the LPGA Tour where she was named Rookie of the Year and she competed at the highest level well into the 1980’s. She posted multiple wins in three different seasons on tour, and was in the Top-10 on the Money List five times. Mills’ LPGA career included 9 victories, three of which were Major Championships. (1963 U.S. Women’s Open, 1964 and 1973 LPGA Championship) A philosophy major at Millsaps, Mills returned back to school in the 1990’s to earn a master’s degree in landscape architecture from Florida International University. She puts that degree to use these days designing golf courses as well as continuing her time as a well-regarded golf instructor in Boca Raton, FL.