Patty Sheehan was born at Middlebury, Vt. She credits her mother Leslie, father BoBo, and Ed Jones as the individuals most influencing her career. Patty was rated one of the top junior snow skiers in the country as a 13-year-old. She gratuated at University of Nevada and San Jose State University.

Hall of Famer on the LPGA tour with 35 victories, Patty came out in a 1998 Golf World column when she detailed the adoption of her daughter with her partner, Rebecca Gaston. They have two children - daughter Bryce and son Blake.

"I didn't really know how well others would deal with the idea of Bryce having two moms, but I've decided if they have a problem with it, it's their problem, not mine," Sheehan wrote in the column. "There are too many children in this world who don't have an equal chance in life and who aren't loved to worry about what other people think. We have the means to provide Bryce with a comfortable upbringing and, more importantly, we have the desire to be loving and devoted mothers... Bryce knows that she's loved and wanted now."

"I think there are a lot of men and women like me-people who spent much of their 20s and 30s devoting themselves to their careers, and put off starting a family until their 40s. After years of believing we would make ideal parents-and having many of our friends and family tell us the same thing-it's been wonderful to finally take on this new challenge."