L.P.G.A. Founders

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Introduction

The Ladies Professional Golf Association or LPGA was founded in 1950 at Rolling Hills Country Club in Wichita, Kansas. The LPGA is the oldest continuing women's professional sports organization in the United States. It succeeded the WPGA (Women's Professional Golf Association), which was active from 1944 to 1949.

L.P.G.A. Founders

The goals of this project are to identify the 13 women who founded the "Ladies Professional Golf Association" in 1950, explore and recognize their contributions to sports, and connect each one to the global Wikitree.

1. Alice Bauer (1927-2002) (c)
2. Patricia Jane Berg (1918-2006) (c)
3. Bettye Jane (Mims) Danoff (1923-2011) (c)
4. Elizabeth Helen Dettweiler (1914-1990) (c)
5. Marlene (Bauer) Hagge (1934-2023) (c)
6. Helen L (Hicks) Harb (1911-1974) (c)
7. Opal S (Trout) Hill (1892-1981) (c)
8. Elizabeth May Jameson (1919-2009) (c)
9. Sally Sessions (1923-1966) (c)
10. Marilynn Louise Smith (1929-2019) (c)
11. Shirley Spork (1927-2022) (c)
12. Louise Suggs (1923-2015) (c)
13. Mildred Ella (Didriksen) Zaharias (1911-1956) (c)

Connected = (c)

Sources

• https://www.thegolfhousebd.com/lpga-founders-13-women-created-lpga/

• https://www.liveabout.com/lpga-founders-the-women-who-created-the-lpga-1565961

• https://www.lpga.com/

Note: The L.P.G.A. Founders Project is a sub-project of the Notables Project.

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