Mickey Wright’s swing may have been the most elegant in the history of the game, but its rhythmic beauty belied the intensity of desire that created it.
Her genius was in the way she channeled obsessive devotion to excellence into such graceful execution.
She was, by almost all accounts, the greatest woman who ever played the game.
Wright died Monday of a heart attack, according to a report from The Associated Press. She was 85.
“I’m not a gut-level, gritty competitor in any way,” Wright once told author Liz Kahn. “Perfection motivated me, doing it better than anyone had ever done it, just as simply as that.