Bill Mallon

William James Mallon, known as Bill Mallon, was born on 2 February 1952 in Paterson, New Jersey, and is an American orthopedic surgeon who first had a career in professional golf. He graduated magna cum laude from Duke University in math and physics, played college golf there as a two-time All-American, and turned professional in 1975, playing the PGA Tour from 1976 to 1979. A shoulder injury and the surgery that followed drew him to medicine, and after leaving golf he became an orthopedic surgeon specializing in complex shoulder reconstruction, training in a fellowship under Richard Hawkins at the University of Western Ontario. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. Outside surgery he is a historian of the Olympic Games who has written 24 books on the subject and founded the Olympedia website.