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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).
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. Collett-Vare dominated American women's golf in the 1920s.
[2] [3] She attained fame in the United States following her 1923 victory in the U.S. Women's Amateur. [4] On August 25, 1924, she became the first golfer and first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine. [1] [5] [6] She also was the literary model for the character of Jordan Baker in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby ...
In 1960, while attending Arizona State University, she won the national intercollegiate individual golf championship. 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 ...
Stephenson went on to win on the Women's Senior Golf Tour, a tour she helped found. In 2003, she became the first woman to play on the Champions Tour at the Turtle Bay Championship, where she finished in last place. Stephenson is among the few women in the course design business, and produced an exercise video for people with arthritis.
This includes all American female golfers that can also be found in the subcategories. This is a diffusing subcategory of Category:American golfers . Articles about female golfers in the parent category should be moved to this subcategory.
Plaque honoring Crocker with the legend "The best Uruguayan female golfer of all time" at Club de Golf del Uruguay.. Fay Crocker (2 August 1914 – 16 September 1983) was a Uruguayan professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.
Marlene Hagge (née Bauer; February 16, 1934 – May 16, 2023) was an American professional golfer.She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA in 1950. [1] She won one major championship and 26 LPGA Tour career events.