Get well Meg

Meg Mallon the 2004 US Women's Golf Open Champ and member of last weekend's victorious US Solheim Cup was hospitalized shortly after the matches ended. The cause was a irregular heartbeat. Here's praying Meg makes a swift recovery.

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By Alan Tays
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Raucous sounds of celebration filled the U.S. Solheim Cup team's bus Sunday afternoon as it made its way from the closing ceremonies to the media center at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Ind.

On her cellphone, Beth Daniel of Delray Beach was dialing Julie Foudy, the former captain of the U.S. women's soccer team. During her career, Foudy would celebrate victories by calling Daniel and Ocean Ridge's Meg Mallon from the U.S. bus and having her teammates shout "BE-ETH! ME-EG!" into the phone. This time, Daniel was eager to be on the shouting end. She held up the phone and joined her joyous teammates' chorus: "JU-LIE! FOU-DY!"

Standing next to Daniel was Mallon, whose par putt on the 16th hole of her singles match against Karen Stupples had clinched the Solheim Cup.
Mallon, 42, didn't look good.

"She looked over at me and said, 'My heart is racing, and I can't stop it,' " Daniel said Tuesday.
Mallon's heart was indeed racing — it was measured at nearly 290 beats per minute, about four times the normal rate. Within an hour, she would be attended by paramedics and a doctor and taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital

"It turns out I've had this for a very long time," Mallon said Tuesday from the Heart Center of Indiana in Indianapolis

"They just misdiagnosed it in my late teens as panic attacks. They said it's not uncommon, especially for women, that this condition has been misdiagnosed as panic attacks."

Tuesday night, Mallon was in stable condition after undergoing a radio-frequency ablation, a procedure that treats irregular heartbeats with electrical impulses.