Michelle Wie West
American golfer
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Nelly Korda
American golfer
Louise Suggs
Louise Suggs was one of the charter members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), and her competitiveness, accuracy, and “picture swing” led her to a phenomenal amateur and professional career in golf.
Dot Kirby
American golf champion
Nancy Lopez
The youngest woman ever to be inducted into the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Hall of Fame, Albany resident Nancy Lopez won forty-eight tournaments and earned more than $5 million in prize money during her career.
Mary Kendall Browne
Championship golfer and tennis player
Grace Finley Price
Trailblazing African American entrepreneur in Ohio
Kathy Whitworth
At nineteen she joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour. Over the next fifteen years, she received the LPGA Player of the Year Award seven times.
Gertrude Fiske
Painter Gertrude Fiske was a co-founder of the Guild of Boston Artists in 1914 and the Boston Society of Etchers in 1917. She was also the first woman named to the Massachusetts Art Commission, as well as a successful golfer.
Margaret Curtis
National golf champion who, with her sister, opened the East Boston Dispensary, and co-founded the Curtis Cup, the best known team trophy for amateur women golfers.