Notable deaths last week: LPGA pioneer; ex-senator who ran with Reagan - Chicago Daily Herald
• Louise Suggs, an LPGA founder and among the best women to ever play with 61 wins and 11 majors, has died at age 91. Suggs was perhaps the most influential player in LPGA history. Along with being one of the 13 founders in 1950, she served as LPGA president three times and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame and the LPGA Teach and Professional Hall of Fame. The LPGA Tour rookie of the year award is named after Suggs. She won every season of her professional career and was the first player to capture the career Grand Slam at the 1957 LPGA Championship. A steady presence at LPGA's biggest events, her support of women's golf never wavered and Suggs never lost her sharp tongue. She was at the LPGA awards dinner in 2007 where Angela Park won the Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year award by earning $983,922. "I wish like hell I could have played for this kind of money," Suggs said. She began to get national acclaim when she won the 1947 U. S. Women's Amateur, the 1948 Women's British Amateur and the 1949 U. S. Women's Open, beating fierce rival Babe Zaharias by 14 shots. Ben Hogan once said after watching Suggs swing that her swing "combines all the desirable elements of efficiency, timing and coordination. Source: www.dailyherald.com
