The golfing world lost a legend.
Betsy Rawls, who is one of only two golfers to win at least four U.S. Women’s Opens, died Saturday. She was 95. Rawls recorded 55 LPGA victories in her career, a number that included eight major championships. She was enshrinement into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1987 and given the USGA’s Bob Jones Award in 1996.
She won her first U.S. Women’s Open in 1951, her rookie season on the LPGA, at Druid Hills Golf Club in Atlanta.
Her second Women’s Open triumph came in 1953 in a playoff over Jacqueline Pung at the Country Club of Rochester in New York. She won by six strokes to win the 1957 U.S. Women’s Open at Winged Foot and edged Joyce Ziske by a stroke to claim her final Women’s Open title in 1960 at Worcester Country Club in Massachusetts.
Here’s a look at photos of Rawls through the years.
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Golfers Betsy Rawls, right, and Jackie Pung pose with the winner’s trophy at the Country Club…
Golfers Betsy Rawls, right, and Jackie Pung pose with the winner’s trophy at the Country Club of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y. on June 28, 1953. Rawls won the U.S. Women’s Open Golf Championship by 6 strokes. Pung finished second.
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Golfers Betty Hicks, Babe Zaharias and Betsy Rawls pose together before starting round in the U.S.…
Golfers Betty Hicks, Babe Zaharias and Betsy Rawls pose together before starting round in the U.S. Women’s Open National Golf Championship at the Salem Country Club in Peabody, Mass., on July 1, 1954. A total of 21 pros and 32 amateurs started play today in the three-day event.
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DATE TAKEN: 5/18/97— Chris Johnson holds the LPGA Championship Trophy with Betsy Rawls (left)…
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