Special Volunteer on PGA Tour Champions
In The Galleri Classic 2023, Sheehan was arranged to update the score for each hole for a group in the opening and final rounds while the tournament had three stages. The 66-year-old legend said she felt happy when she was recruited to volunteer.
On the day of March 24, she only had a small problem at holes 14 and 15, when the mobile score entry machine temporarily malfunctioned. "At first I panicked when I reported the problem over the radio, but no one answered. Luckily the phone returned to normal soon after," Sheehan told Golfweek.
That day, Sheehan followed the group Y.E. Yang and Robert Karlsson. These two competitors both know the famous volunteer well. At the end of the match, each person gave her a signed souvenir ball. Sheehan also gave a reciprocating ball to each person. "Here's their ball," the American women's golf legend excitedly boasted.
The tournament ended with the championship belonging to David Toms at -16. The owner of the cup is 56 years old, has won 13 times on the PGA Tour from 1997-2011, including the 2001 major PGA Championship.
The Galleri Classic recently took place on the par72 course of the Mission Hills golf complex, where Sheehan held the 1996 Nabisco Dinah Shore (now Chevron Championship) major. That victory marked Sheehan's sixth time winning the prestigious tournament as well as closing the cup collection on the LPGA Tour, at 35. She played professionally from 1980, to 1993 was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Sheehan was one of the first LPGA Tour members to openly admit to being lesbian, in April 1998 in the publication of GLAAD - a media organization for the LGBTQ community in the US. Sheehan married Rebecca Gaston in 2013, now has two children.
