The first time Dame Laura Davies met Queen Elizabeth II was after she won the 1987 U.S. Women’s Open. Davies said she had about one minute to converse with the queen while being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). The queen congratulated Davies on the major championship victory and asked where she was off to next. Davies happened to be headed from the palace to the airport to compete in the Biarritz Ladies Open in France.
“She said, ‘Well, make sure you win,’ ” recalled Davies, “and I actually did go on and win. I said to someone the other day, I wonder if she looked at the results. I know she didn’t. In my mind, it would be nice to think that she got the newspaper out on Monday and looked at the scores.”
