Mo Martin wasn’t supposed to win the AIG Women’s Open back in 2014.
She wasn’t just winless in 63 LPGA starts leading up to her arrival at Royal Birkdale that week. She had never led after any round of an LPGA event. She was 31 at the time, barely among the top 100 players in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings (No. 99), after spending six long years on the Symetra Tour before earning her card.
She was among the shortest hitters on tour, and, yet, in the end, she hit a 3-wood off the flagstick at the 72nd hole, nearly making an albatross before rolling in a short putt for eagle.