The Founding Ladies: Babe, Mickey, Patty and the Birth of the LPGA

On September 13, 1950, in Wichita, Kansas, thirteen women came together to do something that had never been done before in professional sport: they built their own tour.

Thirteen Women in a Room

They wrote the bylaws themselves. They elected their own officers. They hired Fred Corcoran as their tournament director. They set out to organize, run, and play in their own events, with prize money so small that the players themselves sometimes performed course maintenance chores to keep the operation running.

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