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Women’s Professional Golf Association

American organization

Also known as: WPGA

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Ladies Professional Golf Association

In Ladies Professional Golf Association
The first, the Women’s Professional Golf Association (WPGA), was chartered in 1944. Standout players soon emerged, including Patty Berg, Louise Suggs, Betty Jameson, and, especially, the multisport legend Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Even Zaharias’s popularity, however, could not ensure success for the WPGA, which folded in 1949. Nevertheless, it…
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United States Women’s Open Championship

In United States Women’s Open Championship
…tournament was founded by the Women’s Professional Golf Association (WPGA) in 1946 as a match play (most holes won) event. It took up its current 72-hole stroke play (lowest score) format the following year. After the WPGA folded in 1949, the LPGA ran the U.S. Women’s Open until 1953, when…
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