Dr Margaret Downing
Margaret Downing was a pioneer in women’s sports, especially basketball, in Arkansas in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Dawn Barlow Darter
American golfer
Michelle Wie West
American golfer
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.