Whitworth’s 88 LPGA wins are essentially the most on any skilled tour, exceeding the lads’s PGA Tour file of 82 shared by Sam Snead and Tiger Woods.
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Kathy Whitworth has died aged 83
File-breaking former LPGA Tour participant Kathy Whitworth has died on the age of 83.
Whitworth’s 88 LPGA wins are essentially the most on any skilled tour, exceeding the lads’s PGA Tour file of 82 shared by Sam Snead and Tiger Woods.
She gained six main titles – the Titleholders Championship in 1965 and 1966, the 1967 Western Open and the Ladies’s PGA Championship in 1967, 1971 and 1975, the latter 12 months additionally marking her induction into the World Golf Corridor of Fame.
Remembered for her rivalry with 13-time main winner Mickey Wright, Whitworth later turned the USA’ first Solheim Cup captain in 1990.
LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan mentioned in a press release on the organisation’s web site: “The golf world and the world generally misplaced one in every of its most unimaginable ladies with the passing of Kathy Whitworth.
“Kathy was a champion within the truest sense of the phrase, each on the golf course and off.”
Whitworth’s associate Bettye Odle added: “It’s with a coronary heart full of affection that we let everybody know of the passing of the winningest golf skilled ever, Kathy Whitworth. Kathy handed out of the blue Saturday night time celebrating Christmas Eve with household and pals.
“Kathy left this world the way in which she lived her life, loving, laughing and creating recollections.”
