Carol was a highly successful LPGA tour professional from 1961 through 1981 winning 38 tournaments including two major titles, the 1964 Western Open and the 1965 US Open at Atlantic City Country Club. All of her victories came within 11 years, 1964-1975.

Between 1973 and mid 1976, she served as president of that association and was responsible for major organizational structure changes such as the naming of its first Commissioner and Board of Directors to help shift to greater business, television and marketing focus. Prize money increased by over 800% and television exposure went up by 600% within four years.

Carol was under contract to NBC television for seven years, from 1977 through 1984 for broadcasts of the PGA, Champions and LPGA Tours. She has also worked for ABC, ESPN and a host of syndicated golf productions.

Carol achieved LPGA (1977) and now World Golf Hall of Fame (1998) status. She is an honorary member of the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Division and a member of the PGA of America. Carol has received numerous awards for her contributions to women's golf, women's sports, education, and career development.

She was elected to membership in the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame, the Collegiate Golf Hall of Fame, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Athletic Hall of Fame, and was selected as one of the 100 Heroes of American Golf in 1988.

Carol is a member of the USGA, National Golf Foundation, Shivas Irons Society, Women's Sports Foundation, and locally, serves Rice University on the Women's Athletics 100 Club.

Between 1980 and 2002, Carol created and produced golf hospitality programs for Fortune 100 and 500 companies on the PGA and Champions Tours. Typically, these companies will invite 200 guests each day. Carol has been the golf host and responsible for all golf communications. Her major client since 1980 through the 2002 was AT&T, with over 150 programs being developed and presented at professional golf tournaments. Other major clients have been U S West, Nynex, and Bell Atlantic. This activity has allowed Carol to closely witness the growth, changes in and popularity of men's professional golf during the past 22 years.

Ms. Mann has given speeches to corporate and non-profit groups all over the country, as well as conducting over 700 golf clinics.

Carol has authored a book, The 19th Hole ; a long running and award winning golf column for the now defunct Houston Post; many articles for golf publications; former Professional Advisor to Senior Golfer Magazine.

She makes appearances at trade shows, industry meetings, speeches, corporate hospitality programs, golf outings, produced the first golf shows on the QVC network, and golf clinics.

Carol has consulted with established and emerging golf companies, providing recommendations, feasibility studies, strategic planning, product development and specifications, market demographics and definitions, and business directions. Formerly with Wilson Golf for 35 years, Carol has served the innovative Adams Golf Company.

Currently, along with Gary Player and Ben Crenshaw, Ms. Mann is a special Ambassador and consultant for the World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine , Florida . She recently produced the renown Ben Hogan exhibit commemorating Hogan's three major wins in 1953 as well as the exhibit documenting the 2003 historic performance of Annika Sorenstam at the Bank of America Colonial tournament on the PGA Tour.

In 2005 Towson University , near Baltimore , hired Carol to serve as a Special Consultant for the men and women's Division 1 golf teams.

In addition, Carol is associated with The Woodlands Country Club, The Woodlands, Texas to provide teaching and player development services for its members and guests. Carol coaches aspiring players of all ages and levels of skill. Golf Digest recently named her one of the top teachers in Texas .

As a member of the women's sports community Carol believed it was important to influence the direction of women's sports. Along with other prominent women athletes, she has advocated for Title IX with three Presidents of the United States , Carter, Reagan, and Bush, along with members of Congress. The Women's Sports Foundation elected her president from 1985 through 1990. During that time one initiative she developed and conducted a three million dollar fundraising campaign for this non-profit group. She served on its Board of Trustees from 1980 through 1991.

Ms. Mann continues to make charity important. As Honorary Chairman of the Rice Golf Classic since 1993, an all-women's fund-raiser for women's athletics at Rice University , that program has gained over $470,000.

Carol attended Woman's College of the University of North Carolina , now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro , where she majored in Physical Education. She turned professional in October of 1960. Married in 1979 to fellow professional golfer, Jim Hardy, but the couple divorced in 1988. Ms. Mann lives in The Woodlands, Texas with her cat, Boo Boo. Carol loves to garden and learns from an intense Bible study program.