SPORTS: LPGA Founder Marilynn Smith Dies, Aged Of 89
Smith established the world’s oldest women’s professional sports organisation alongside 12 other women in 1950, and her passing leaves just Marlene Bauer Hagge and Shirley Spork as the surviving members. Born in Topeka, Kansas, Smith grew up in Wichita but thought of golf as a “sissy sport” until she started playing at 11. Her father […]
