4-Time US Ladies’s Open Champion Betsy Rawls Dies At 95

Betsy Rawls handed away on the age of 95 Saturday at her residence in Delaware, as confirmed by the LPGA Tour.

Rawls’ achievements included 4 U.S. Ladies’s Open championships, as reported by Related Press (AP). She initially pursued physics whereas learning on the College of Texas, however her path took a flip when she met coach Harvey Penick. She went on to win the Texas Ladies’s Newbie in 1949 and 1950, coming near victory within the 1950 U.S. Ladies’s Open. Her success on the golf course led her to a profession within the sport.

Rawls received a complete of eight main championships and 55 LPGA Tour titles, making her a real legend in ladies’s golf. Her victories included 4 U.S. Ladies’s Open titles, a feat matched solely by Mickey Wright. She additionally led the LPGA Tour in earnings and victories throughout her profession.

Betsy Rawls, four-time U.S. Open champion and high administrator, has died. She was 95. https://t.co/Xsz6soa5Fx

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“She was a legend within the sport who would have been profitable in something she pursued, so we’re all fortunate she made golf her ardour,” CEO of the USGA and former LPGA Tour commissioner Mike Whan mentioned in a press release, per AP. (RELATED: REPORT: 65-12 months-Outdated Girl Dies After Being Ejected From Golf Cart)

Other than her accomplishments on the course, Rawls was a pioneer in golf administration, serving as a event director for the LPGA Championship for 17 years. She was inducted into each the LPGA and World Golf Corridor of Fame, acquired the distinguished Bob Jones Award from the USGA, and even labored as a guidelines official on the males’s U.S. Open.

“Betsy has all the time been dedicated to work and devoted to the sport. I can consider solely two ladies who’ve achieved as a lot, not solely as gamers however for his or her lifetime contributions, and that’s Betsy and Patty Berg,” Wright mentioned, the outlet added.