At long last, all 13 LPGA founders will get their due.
The seven LPGA founders who aren’t currently in the World Golf Hall of Fame will be formally inducted on Monday at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club in the Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina. The induction ceremony coincides with the 124th U.S Open.
Alice Bauer, Bettye Danoff, Helen Dettweiler, Helen Hicks, Opal Hill, Sally Sessions and Shirley Spork will join Patty Berg (1974 inductee), Marlene Bauer Hagge (2002 inductee), Louise Suggs (1979 inductee), Babe Zaharias (1974 inductee), Marilynn Smith (2006 inductee) and Betty Jameson (1998 inductee) who are currently in the World Golf Hall of Fame.
“I wish I could thank every one of those people before they passed away for what they had to do to keep the tour going and keep it alive,” said LPGA legend Nancy Lopez.
Here are photos of the seven LPGA founders going into the esteemed Hall on Monday:
1986 Golf Journal
Scan shows a photo from page 11 of the July 1986 Golf Journal that accompanies a…
Scan shows a photo from page 11 of the July 1986 Golf Journal that accompanies a story on the Curtis Cup.
Caption reads: “Our 1932 Curtis Cup Team: (seated, left to right) Glenna Collett Vare, Marion Hollins (team captain) and Maureen Orcutt. (Standing, left to right) Mrs. L.D. Cheney, Mrs. Opal S. Hill, Mrs. Harley G. Higbie, Viginia Van Wie and Helen Hicks.” (Copyright unknown/Courtesy USGA Museum)
1932 Curtis Cup
Glenna Colllet Vare, far left, with other members of the 1932 U.S. Curtis Cup team which…
Glenna Colllet Vare, far left, with other members of the 1932 U.S. Curtis Cup team which included Leona Cheney, Helen Hicks, second right, Opal Hill, Maureen Orcutt, Virginia Van Wie, and Marion Hollins, far right, as the captatin. They are shown here before a practice round at the Sandy Lodge Golf Club. May 1932 (Copyright Unknown/Courtesy USGA)
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