Take a look back at the career of Hall of Famer and LPGA founder Louise Suggs.
Take a look back at the career of Hall of Famer and LPGA founder Louise Suggs.
Louise Suggs of Lithia Springs, Ga., smiles as she holds her trophy after winning the Women’s Western Open Golf Tournament at Des Moines, Iowa, June 29, 1946, defeating Patty Berg in the 36-hold windup on a rain-drenched course. (AP Photo)
Bobby Jones presents a silver trophy to Louise Suggs of Lithia Springs, Ga., after she won the Southern Women’s Golf Championship in Atlanta, May 10, 1947. (AP Photo/Rudolph Faircloth)
Margaret Gunther, left, of Memphis, Tenn., looks on as her opponent Louise Suggs of Atlanta, Ga., drives from the first tee in her quarter-final round in the Women’s Western Amateur golf tournament at Evanston, Ill., Aug. 14, 1947. (AP Photo/Ed Maloney)
Louise Suggs of Atlanta, Ga., member of the U.S. Curtis Cup Women’s golf team, drives at the first tee during the cup matches as Birkdale, England, May 21, 1948. The U.S. team defeated the British golfers, 6 1/2 to 2 1/2. (AP Photo)
Louise Suggs, 24-year-old champion of the United States, receives a second golf crown at Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s, Lancashire, June 3, 1948, as she is handed the Challenge Cup of the British Ladies’ Amateur Golf Championship from Harold Critchley, captain of the Lytham and St. Anne’s Club. Jean Donald of Scotland, who was defeated by Suggs, stands at center. (AP Photo)
Actor James Dunn kisses Louise Suggs after presenting her with the cup for winning the Women’s National Open golf tournament at Prince Georges Country Club in Landover, Md., Sept. 25, 1949. (AP Photo/William J. Smith)
Louise Suggs reacts to a missed putt on the 15th hole of the Women’s World Open Golf tourney at Tam O’Shanter Country Club near Chicago, Ill. on Aug. 11, 1951. Suggs, of Carrollton, Ga., carded a third round score of 75 for a 228 total. (AP Photo)
Louise Suggs of Atlanta, Ga., winner of the All American Women’s Open golf tournament at Tam O’Shanter in Chicago, Ill., chats with Sam Snead, Aug. 3, 1952. (AP Photo/Paul Cannon)
Louise Suggs of Sea Island, Ga., holds aloft the winner’s cup and a $1,000 check after winning the Women’s Titleholders Golf Championship at Augusta, Ga., March 15, 1959. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)
Louise Suggs, a native of Atlanta, Ga., holds up her plaque outside the Pinehurst Country Club in North Carolina before she was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, Aug. 21, 1979. Suggs is the seventh woman player to be inducted in the Hall of Fame. (AP Photo/Bob Jordan)
Eight founders of the Ladies Professional Golf Assocaition pose at a celebration of the assocciation’s fiftieth anniversary Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1999, in New York. Pictured from left rear are Marilyn Smith, Marlene Hagge, Alice Bauer, Louise Suggs and Betty Jameson. In the front row are, from left, Bettye Sanoff, Shirley Spork and Patty Berg. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)
Pro golfer Byron Nelson shows Louise Suggs, center and Marlene Bauer how he would play the shot beside a tree during pro amateur day at the Glen Lakes Country Club in Dallas, Texas, April 10, 1957. (AP Photo/Carl Linde)