She notched 55 wins, including four U.S. Open titles, across 25 years in the LPGA. She later helped grow the sport as an executive and tournament director.
Betsy Rawls at the 1969 LPGA Championship. She won by four strokes, securing one of her eight major titles. Betsy Rawls, who joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association in the early 1950s, when the tour was just getting started, and helped spark interest in the circuit while winning a record-setting four U.S. Women’s Open titles and serving as an executive and tournament director, died Oct. 21 at her home in Lewes, Del. She was 95.
Then she got an offer from Wilson Sporting Goods, which wanted her to join LPGA pioneer Patty Berg in leading golf clinics and playing in exhibitions, for a salary of about $5,000 plus expenses. But “the tree happened to be slanted a little away from the green,” she added. “It was a big trunk, so I hit it low on the trunk and there happened to be just enough slope on the trunk that the ball kind of ran up it a little ways and took off back over me. It went up over my hands and arms and landed on the edge of the green.”
“I played with the boys except in tournaments, carried my own bag, did a little gambling — skin games, you know — and held my own. It was fun,” she recalled in “Gettin’ to the Dance Floor,” a golf oral history by Al Barkow.
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