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Erica Paige Blasberg [2] (July 14, 1984 – May 9, 2010) was an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.She attended the University of Arizona, and was the country's number 1 ranked college player as a freshman.
FILE - Kathy Whitworth of San Antonio, blast out of sand trap on 18th green and then sinks a 6-foot putt to go into the lead of the Women Titleholders Golf Tournament at Augusta, Ga., Nov. 25, 1966.
Rawls was the LPGA's president from 1961 to 1962. In 1967, when the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame was created, she was one of the six inaugural inductees. The LPGA recognized her induction year into the Hall of Fame of Women's Golf, 1960, as her official induction year into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame and the World Golf Hall of Fame.
She died in a tragic Jan. 30, 2014, crash in Auburn, Alabama. ... Playing at the highest level in women's golf, Downey struggled. She played parts of five seasons from 2006-10 and earned just over ...
Whitworth retired from competitive golf in 2005 after competing in the BJ's Charity Classic on the Women's Senior Golf Tour. In 2007, with Jay Golden, she published Kathy Whitworth's Little Book of Golf Wisdom. [5] At the time of her death she lived in Flower Mound, Texas with her partner, Bettye Odle.
Her younger sister Missy Farr-Kaye became the head coach of the women's golf team at Arizona State in June 2015, after many years as an assistant at their alma mater. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Also diagnosed with breast cancer 27 years ago at age 30, [ 24 ] she is a two-time cancer survivor (1998, 2008) and leads her sister's foundation.
Her colon cancer recurred in 1955. Despite her limited schedule of eight golfing events that season, Zaharias won her last two tournaments in competitive golf. On September 27, 1956, Zaharias died of her illness at the age of forty-five at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas. At the time of her death, she was still a top-ranked female ...
Dawn Coe-Jones (October 19, 1960 – November 12, 2016) was a Canadian professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour, and a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.She was the first female Canadian golfer to surpass $1million in career earnings, announcing the arrival of Canadian female golfers upon the world stage in the 1990s.