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Glenna Collett Vare (June 20, 1903 – February 3, 1989) was an American amateur golfer. She earned induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame.The Hall of Fame calls her the greatest female golfer of her day.
A golfer is someone who plays golf.Below is a list of female golfers, professional and amateurs, sorted alphabetically. Category:Lists of golfers contains lists of golfers sorted in several other ways: by nationality, by tour and by type of major championship won (men's, women's or senior).
Creamer ranked outside the top 100 in putts per round in 2012, [49] and Golf World magazine's Ryan Herrington described her putting as "sometimes balky". [6] While she was the LPGA leader in greens in regulation in 2009 and was regularly high in the tour rankings for the statistic early in her career, by 2014 she fell to 51st. [55]
[14] [15] She received the 1986 William Richardson Award from the Golf Writers Association of America for consistent outstanding contributions to golf. [16] She is also a member of the New Mexico Hall of Fame, [17] Texas Sports Hall of Fame, [18] Texas Golf Hall of Fame, [15] and the Women's Sports Foundation Hall of Fame. [19] [20]
This table lists players with 11 or more wins on the Ladies European Tour. [1] It does not include official wins on other professional tours, of which a few of the golfers listed, such as Laura Davies and Annika Sörenstam, have many.
Ann Gregory (July 25, 1912 – February 5, 1990) was an African-American amateur golfer. [1] Black newspapers had called her "The Queen of Negro Women's Golf." [2] As stated in Arthur Ashe's book, Hard Road to Glory, many observers called Gregory the best African-American female golfer of the 20th century.
The 2005 LPGA Tour was a series of golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world which took place from February through December 2005. The tournaments were sanctioned by the United States–based Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). Total prize money for all tournaments was $45,100,000.
From 1956 to 1968, she was the dominant woman in amateur golf, and accumulated five U.S. Women's Amateur titles (1957, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1968), ranking her second only to Glenna Collett Vare who had six. She was runner-up two other times (1956, 1964).